Getting started & anonymity
No. Meet anonymously and keep in touch anonymously. You choose who sees your photos. If you set “Prefer mutual reveal”, people who haven’t registered photos can’t send you requests, so your photos are never seen one-sidedly.
Related terms: Step Signal, Photo reveal request
No. Fill in what you can and save partway. You choose who sees each item, so writing something doesn’t mean everyone can see it.
Choose all that apply from the three (Meet now / Meet new people / Find a partner). If you haven’t decided, choose “Undecided”. You can change it at any time: Discovery (the first screen when you open the app) → “My Page” tab at the bottom → [Change] in the “Purpose” box at the top (or “📝 Basic profile” → “Edit basic profile” at the top → “Purpose” in “🎯 Purpose & relationship”). The “Purpose” box suggests profile items worth filling in for your purpose.
Related terms: Purpose
Choose “Don’t drink, but drinking occasions are OK” under “Drinking” in your basic profile. People filtering, or searching by their “preference about drinking”, will find you with this answer. People who choose “Don’t drink” or “Don’t drink, but drinking occasions are OK” don’t see “How often you drink” in the drinking details.
There are five levels for each item: show to everyone / show only to matches / show only when you both open the same item / show only to this person / show to no one. You can change them later.
Only the item you changed is affected. While you don’t show an item, you can’t see the other person’s same item either (you can only see items you show each other). Other approved items stay visible. There’s no need to withdraw approvals or “undo close”.
You need to set that item to the same “mutual item reveal” as the other person, and you both need to have matched. Setting your own item to “everyone” won’t show you theirs.
Not available to anyone under 18.
Staying hidden
There are four ways: “Hide from people nearby”, which removes you from the nearby list; “Safe Zone”, which hides you by place; “Stealth Mode”, which hides you by day and time; and “Hide online status (per person)”, which hides you from people you choose. You can combine them.
Related terms: Safe Zone, Hide online status (per person)
Whether you vanish by place or by time. Safe Zone hides you while you’re within a radius around your home or workplace. Stealth Mode hides you only during the days and time slots you choose. Neither is about choosing people; both switch automatically, and you can use both at once. Scheduling Stealth Mode is available on Aurora and above.
Related terms: Safe Zone
No. With “Take a break”, you can step away without leaving, keeping your profile, photos, trust and connections (no need to re-enter anything when you come back). Choose it from My Page → “⚙️ Settings” → “🌙 Take a break”. It’s also offered first when you open “Delete account & data” (available 30 days after you sign up). During the break you don’t appear on other people’s screens, and push notifications and emails stop (important messages, such as when your break is about to expire, still arrive). To come back, open the app and tap once. Two years after the last day you opened the app, the leaving process starts (no deadline while you keep a paid plan; if you subscribe through a store, automatic renewal continues during a break). If you just don’t want to be found in search, use “Stay out of search” (you can separately turn off the three searches: by name, by words in your bio, and by your private bio); to just disappear from the nearby list, use “Hide from people nearby”.
It depends on the visibility of that field. Fields visible to everyone match anyone’s keyword search. Match-only fields match only the searches of your matches; request-reveal fields only those of people who have approved that item with you; mutual-item-reveal fields only those of people you’ve matched with who have the same setting. Private fields match no one’s search. People who aren’t allowed to see a field aren’t told it matched. People you’ve blocked, or who have blocked you, never match. Nicknames, contact IDs and social media IDs are not included in this search.
Related terms: Where you’re active
With “Hide online status (per person)”, you can hide your online status from the people you choose. You can also choose people who won’t see your upcoming plans. Before cutting them off completely, there’s also “Soft block”, which lets you keep your distance without telling them. Meanwhile, you don’t get notifications from them.
Related terms: Hide online status (per person), Soft block, Connection Control
“Disguise mode” switches the screen to look like a weather, map or transit app. It starts OFF. To use it, turn on “Disguise mode” in “🛡️ Shield Center” at the very top of the app’s settings. Once it’s on, tap the same spot on the screen quickly three times to switch (taps on things that react, such as buttons or the map, don’t count). To switch back, tap the same spot quickly three times again, or long-press the title at the very top of the screen (on the map, the search box) for about a second. While disguised, incoming VortAR calls don’t appear on the screen (they’re kept as missed calls).
Related terms: Disguise mode
No. You talk only inside the app. Calls start with voice. On calls placed from Signal by someone on Aurora or above, video flows only when you both turn on “📹 Video ON” (it starts OFF, and stops immediately if either of you turns it OFF). Calls from anonymous conversations and Live Warp are voice only. VortAR never records audio or video.
Related terms: 📹 Video call
Searching & meeting
There’s no default search radius, so you can search by interests instead of distance. You can connect with people far away just as easily as with people nearby. Add distance to your conditions only when you want to narrow by it.
Related terms: Discovery
The Nearby, Nationwide and Recommended lists can be viewed as often as you like. The “Search” button for names and profile words is limited to 30 a day on Free and 100 on paid plans (loading the next page doesn’t count; it resets at midnight Japan time). There’s no limit on the number of results. On very busy days, for safety, we may temporarily pause searches on Free only (searches and lists on paid plans don’t stop; it resets at midnight).
With “⚙ Change what matters to you”, choose up to two from body type, age, height and weight, looks, position, interests, purpose and closeness (all plans). People who fit your choices are introduced first. Unless you choose “closeness”, distance isn’t used to order recommendations.
Related terms: Navigator, Maybe later
Free gets 3 a day, Aurora 6, Star 12, Galaxy 20, and Universe has no limit. Recommendations are a set number of people chosen to fit your preferences and purpose. Lists of people nearby or by conditions (“Browse”) can be viewed without limit, even for free.
Related terms: Navigator
A feature for posting when and where you’re going, in advance. People interested in that place and time can find you. Instead of who’s nearby right now, you find who you can meet next. You can save places you visit often.
Related terms: Warp, Future Warp, Live Warp
A feature for sending an invitation with a date, time and place from a Future Warp. The short check-in after you meet is never shown to the other person. All that remains is the fact that you met, and a record of trust.
Related terms: Meet-up plan, Meet record
Apply on the “Register a group or venue” screen via Discovery (the first screen when you open the app) → 🔍 at the top → “Community” tab → [Apply to register] (you can also open it from My Page → ⚙️ Settings → 🏘️ Community settings). Once approved, it appears on the map and in the “Community” list.
Related terms: Community
What you can’t write & photos
A way to register, privately, what you’re open to and looking for that you can’t write on a public profile, and search with it. Conditions such as married, discreet, or coming as a couple stay where only you can read them. Registering conditions and checking the number of matches are free.
Related terms: Secret Filter
Matching happens only on the server. Only when conditions match and you both agree is that item revealed, at the same time. Until then, no one can see it. Even our team’s screens show nothing beyond whether there was a match.
Related terms: Secret Filter
The items you choose are not shown to others. Your profile only says “Intimate preferences: set”. The exception is the three fields you write yourself (the “Other” and “Comment” fields for each item, up to 30 characters each); only these three are visible to others as written. Choose who can see them with “Who can see this” at the top of the screen (matches only / matches with the same setting only / people who have approved each other only / no one; “matches only” at first). Changing it from “Intimate preferences” in Visibility settings does the same. If a field you wrote contains words indicating a minor, they’re automatically masked as “○” (they look the same on your own screen).
For main photos, if someone whose own photo is private sends a request, it’s always a mutual reveal (you can’t ask to see theirs while keeping yours hidden). For a Secret album, propose pairs of what you’d like to see and what you’ll show — “one photo ⇔ one photo” or “set ⇔ set” (up to 3 pairs). In both cases, everything is revealed at the same moment the other person accepts — not a single photo before that. A reveal closes automatically after 72 hours without messages. If you haven’t viewed it when it closes, you can still view it once within 72 hours.
Related terms: Photo reveal request
It depends on the other person’s setting. If they’ve set “Prefer mutual reveal”, register your own photo first. Otherwise, choose from three: ① register a photo and make it a mutual reveal, ② attach one photo to the request, or ③ request one-sidedly without a photo. An attached photo reaches only that person and isn’t added to your profile. On their screen it stays blurred until they tap it. It disappears when the request ends (approved, withdrawn, or after the 14-day limit).
Related terms: Photo reveal request
You can withdraw it at any time before it’s approved: “My Page” tab at the bottom → [Photo] next to your nickname → 🔒 at the top right (Photo reveal management) → [Withdraw] under “Sent (awaiting approval)”. Withdrawing doesn’t restore that day’s sending allowance. Requests with no answer for 14 days are withdrawn automatically.
Related terms: Photo reveal request
The content isn’t visible, but an icon shows what kind of photo it is, and a red “SECRET” band is placed over it. You don’t need to explain what you’re hiding. Even after a reveal, photos set to private keep the same band, so you can tell which photos are being shown only to you.
Related terms: Photo reveal request
Yes. In My Page → [Photo] next to your nickname → “Sub photos”, check “Use as mini icon” on the first one (slot 2), and that photo becomes your icon in lists and on cards. Even if your main photo is private, this photo is visible to everyone. Uncheck it or delete the photo to go back.
Related terms: Photo reveal request
Safety & trust
No. Your past conversation stays on your screen. It’s designed so that the evidence can’t be wiped out by what the other person does.
Related terms: Block
People verified with an ID document get 🆔, and you can search for 🆔 people only (verification is optional). Even when talking anonymously, verified people show the 🆔 mark (while few people are verified, people can choose whether to show it). People verified by phone also show 📞, but only if they choose. Our team deletes document images once the review is over and keeps only the result, “verified”.
Related terms: ID verification
Yes. Records of conversations where a block occurred are kept for 90 days, and the person who was blocked can also report from “⚠️ Report suspicious behavior” at the top right of the conversation. Reported conversations are stored where only our team can see them, and we respond to inquiries from the police and other authorities.
Related terms: Block
On Aurora and above, you can lift it (prices are shown in the app). Blocks on Free are permanent; to lift one, you need to upgrade your plan. On Aurora and above, you can choose “Permanent” or “4 months” when blocking. A 4-month block is lifted automatically when it ends. “Undo” right after blocking is free for everyone. Neither the block nor its lifting, manual or automatic, is ever shown to the other person.
Related terms: Block
Long-press a worrying message to report it right there. As a rule, we review reported content within 24 hours.
No one. It isn’t shown even to you, because it isn’t meant for competing over points. What’s shown is only the fact that you’ve been verified, for example by phone or ID. The app tells you in one line what to do next to build more trust. In search, you can narrow to “🌟 Highly trusted” people (whether someone pays doesn’t count; available once enough members and interaction records have built up).
Related terms: Trust Score, ID verification
A separate, independent mark, apart from the score. It only goes to people with a real, ongoing relationship. It’s never added to the score, and so it carries more weight than the score.
Related terms: Mama’s recommendation
Pricing
Searching, browsing and filtering are all free. Distance and filters are never limited by rank. Registering Secret Filter conditions and checking the number of matches are free too. Paid plans only add how much you can say and how many you can open.
Related terms: Secret Filter, VortAR Free
It ends when the first 500 members sign up or 90 days after the official launch, whichever comes first. From the second year, the regular annual price applies.
Monthly plans can be changed or cancelled at any time, through the store you subscribed with.
No. Unused slots roll over to the next month. For the first 30 days after you sign up, every plan gets a +4 bonus.
Related terms: Ignite
GLOSSARY
The names of the features you’ll see in the app, and what they mean. The same explanations appear when you tap ⓘ in the app.
Warp: Warp ／ Live Warp ／ Future Warp ／ 🌙 After dark ／ Warp list ／ Edit your Warps ／ Saved for later ／ Watch list ／ Meet-up plan ／ Warp alert ／ Warp notice ／ ⚓ Spot ／ Boost Warp ／ Super Warp ／ Boost balance
Connecting: Spark ／ Ignite ／ Signal ／ Step Signal ／ 📹 Video call ／ Beacon reminder ／ Secret Filter ／ Hidden search
Safety & privacy: Veil ／ Safe Zone ／ Hide online status (per person) ／ Soft block ／ Block ／ Quick hide ／ Shield Center ／ Disguise mode ／ Photo reveal request
Trust: Trust Score ／ ID verification ／ Meet record ／ Mama’s recommendation ／ Sentinel ／ Bar member ／ Lead Mama ／ Co-Mama ／ Venue QR
Screens & lists: Discovery ／ 🔥HOT ／ Community ／ Preset ／ Preset library ／ Passport ／ Mission Control ／ Connection Control ／ ⚓ Anchor (favorites) ／ Radar List ／ Footprints (Trace) ／ Flight Log ／ Orbit ／ Navigator ／ Maybe later
Ranks: VortAR Free ／ VortAR Aurora ／ VortAR Star ／ VortAR Galaxy ／ VortAR Universe ／ Founding Member
Profile terms: Where you’re active ／ Purpose ／ Mutual reveal on request ／ Mutual item reveal ／ “Toki ni yori” (depends on the time) ／ Riba (versatile) ／ Direction of transition ／ PrEP
Warp
In plain words: People you can meet
Pick a place and time, put your pin on the map, and invite people you could meet.
Warp is VortAR’s core feature: it combines moving your pin and putting out an invitation. Set a place and a date and time, and people coming there at that time can find you on the map or in the Warp list. How many Warps you can post, how far ahead, and in how many places at once depend on your rank, but viewing Warps is free.
Related screens: Map, Warp list
Related terms: Live Warp, Future Warp, Warp list, Boost Warp, Meet-up plan
A short line posted around where you are now, for 3 hours. A type of Warp.
A short line of up to 50 characters, posted for 3 hours around where you are now (a position rounded to a square of about 1 km), without setting a place or time. It uses its own slot, separate from Future Warp slots: you can have only one at a time, and posting again ends the previous one. You can post anonymously, in which case Step Signal is the only way to get in touch. If you want to set a place and time, switch to a Future Warp with “Make it a Warp”.
Related screens: “LIVE Now!” in the Warp tab, Warp list
Related terms: Warp, Future Warp, 🌙 After dark, Step Signal
A Warp where you choose the place and start time yourself. The counterpart of Live Warp.
A Warp where you set the place and time yourself; the start can be chosen from 1 hour ahead (to post right now, use Live Warp). Stays are in 30-minute steps, and the maximum length and how many days ahead you can post depend on your rank (Free: 2 hours, 7 days ahead; Universe: 12 hours, 90 days ahead). Changing the date, time or place after posting uses the same count as posting once (cancelling does not give the count back).
Related screens: Map, Warp list
Related terms: Warp, Live Warp, Meet-up plan
One of the main Warp categories, for adult meetups here and now.
One of the main Warp categories (🍽 Food & drink / 🎨 Hobbies & sports / 🎪 Events / 🌙 After dark / 💬 Communication), shared by Live Warp and Future Warp. After choosing it you can pick detailed preferences, but you can also post without choosing anything (nothing is selected the first time you post). The items you choose are visible to people who open that Warp only while it lasts (for a Future Warp, until its period ends), even if they are private on your profile, and you can choose whether to show just the headings or the details too (headings only at first; they are visible on anonymous Warps as well, but your name, photos and profile are not shown). What others have seen on their screens, such as photos, cannot be erased.
Related screens: Live Warp posting screen, Warp creation screen
Related terms: Live Warp, Future Warp
A list of Warps in date order, for finding who will be where, when.
While the map lets you search by place, the Warp list arranges Warps by date and time so you can find “who will be there, at that time”. Viewing is free, with no time limit. Tap 👁 on someone’s row to hide it for 24 hours; long-press it for a soft block.
Related screens: Map, “Future” in the Warp tab
Related terms: Warp, Quick hide, Soft block
A screen to change or cancel the date, place or note of Warps you’ve placed.
A screen listing the upcoming Warps you’ve placed. Open it from 📋 at the top right of the Warp tab, and tap a row to change the date, place or note, or to cancel it. Changing the date or place uses one Warp, and cancelling doesn’t give the count back (manage a Live Warp you’re running now from “LIVE Now!”).
Related screens: “📋 Edit your Warps” at the top right of the Warp tab
Related terms: Warp, Future Warp, Live Warp
Keep Warps you’re interested in together at the top of the Warp list.
Tap [🔖 Save for later] on a Warp you opened on the map or in Warp details to keep it. Saved Warps are gathered under “🔖 Saved for later” at the very top of Warp tab → “Future” → “List”, and cancellations and endings are reflected there. This is separate from ⚓ Anchor (people) and ⚓ Spot (places).
Related screens: Warp list
Related terms: Warp list, Warp alert
A row showing Warps from people you’ve added to Anchor or Ignite.
At the top of the Warp list, Future Warps from people you’ve added to ⚓ Anchor, Ignite or Radar List appear in date order. It’s a display only, not a notification; anonymous Warps and people who have chosen not to show you their Warps don’t appear.
Related screens: Warp list
Related terms: ⚓ Anchor (favorites), Radar List, Ignite, Warp list
Set a date, time and place from a Warp and fix the day you’ll meet.
Send “🤝 Propose a meet-up” from a Warp’s details; when the other person accepts, the plan is set and a pin for it appears on your map (visible only to you). On the day, after the arrival button (a location check), scan each other’s codes with the camera or enter them by hand to record that you met. If the codes don’t match up, a record is still kept, but it counts less toward your Trust Score. Your plans are listed under “🤝 Meet-up plans” in the Signal tab. The number of proposals you can make per day depends on your rank, and you can buy more (prices are shown in the app).
Related screens: Warp list, 🤝 Meet-up plans (Signal)
Related terms: Future Warp, Meet record, Trust Score
A notification when a Warp matching your places or conditions is posted.
A notification you get when someone posts a Future Warp at a ⚓ Spot (a favorite place) or in an area; you can narrow it with filters. Anonymous Warps arrive without revealing who posted them, and filters don’t apply to them (so that their conditions can’t be guessed from whether you were notified). You don’t get Warps from people you’ve blocked or hidden your online status from, or from people who have chosen not to show you their Warps. Past alerts can be reviewed by filtering “Warp” in the 🔔 notification list.
Related screens: Notifications
Related terms: Warp, Warp notice, ⚓ Spot
Let people you’ve met know, one by one, where you plan to Warp next.
A notification that tells specific people about a Warp you plan to make, such as “I’ll be at ◯◯ at 8 pm in 3 days”. It’s free and can be sent for anonymous Warps too (not for Live Warp). You can send it to people you’ve both confirmed meeting, people you’ve exchanged Sparks with, and people who have added you to ⚓ Anchor; when posting a Warp, you can check how many people it will reach. People you’ve exchanged Sparks with and people you’ve met are set to receive your Warps by default (check or change this at My Page → ⚙️ Settings → 🛡️ Shield Center → “📣 Warp notices”). Recipients can choose not to receive notices from specific people (from a notice they received, or on the same “📣 Warp notices” screen).
Notices for anonymous Warps also go into Step Signal conversations. Even if some people don’t receive them, on your screen it looks as if the notice went into every conversation (so that whether someone received it doesn’t reveal their settings, or whether you are keeping your distance from them).
Related screens: Notifications, Shield Center “📣 Warp notices”, Warp confirmation screen
Related terms: Warp, Warp alert, ⚓ Anchor (favorites), Spark
A place you’ve saved as a favorite.
A ⚓ Spot is a venue or area you’ve saved as a favorite. When someone posts a Future Warp at a saved place, you get a Warp alert; notifications can be ON, OFF, or follow your security settings (silent while in Stealth Mode or a Safe Zone). Save places from a venue’s details screen or from Settings → “🛡️ Shield Center” → “⚓ Spot”; how many you can save depends on your rank.
Related screens: Venue details, Shield Center “⚓ Spot”, Notifications
Related terms: Warp alert, Meet-up plan, ⚓ Anchor (favorites)
In plain words: Make your Warp stand out
A highlight option: the frame glows and the Warp is shown higher in its time slot.
A paid option to make a Warp stand out: its frame glows and it’s shown higher on the map, in the Warp list, and in “LIVE Now!” in the Warp tab. It comes per hour or as a 3-hour pack, and unused time carries over as your “Boost balance”. You’ll be offered an extension 10 minutes before it ends. For even more visibility, there’s Super Warp. Prices are shown in the app.
Related screens: Warp creation screen
Related terms: Warp, Super Warp
In plain words: Make your Warp stand out
A highlight option with animation that puts the Warp first in its time slot.
The paid option that makes a Warp stand out most. On the map it lights up in turn with animation, and in the Warp list it takes turns at the top of its time slot. It comes per hour or as a 3-hour pack, and unused time carries over as a balance. It can also be added to Live Warps and anonymous Warps. Prices are shown in the app.
Related screens: Warp creation screen
Related terms: Warp, Boost Warp
Your purchased Boost and Super time, kept in minutes.
When you buy Boost Warp or Super Warp, the time is added to separate balances. When you apply it to a Warp, it’s used up to that Warp’s remaining time, and anything left unused, for example because you cancelled, goes back to your balance. Check your balance on the Plans screen, the Warp confirmation screen, and your own Warp’s details.
Related screens: Plans, Warp confirmation screen
Related terms: Boost Warp, Super Warp
Connecting
In plain words: Like
A “like” you send to someone who catches your eye.
Spark is VortAR’s “like” (it’s not a rank name; the free rank is called Free). A Spark sent from a Warp’s invitation screen is called a Warp Spark. How many you can send per day depends on your rank, and you get one more per day once your Trust Score reaches 30 pt. After you run out, you can buy them one at a time or in packs of 5 (prices are shown in the app).
Related screens: Discovery, Profile, Warp list, History
Related terms: Ignite, Signal, Trust Score, Beacon reminder
In plain words: Top pick
Use one “top pick” slot to single someone out.
Ignite uses one “top pick” slot to single someone out. You can send a Signal to someone you’ve Ignited regardless of their message settings. Removing an Ignite doesn’t give the slot back. Slots increase every month according to your rank, and you can buy more if you need them (prices are shown in the app; purchased slots are added to what you hold and don’t count toward the limit that stops the monthly additions).
Related screens: Profile, History
Related terms: Spark, Signal
In plain words: Messages
Messages between users.
Signal is the name for messages (chat) between users. How many new people you can start a conversation with per day depends on your rank (any number of messages to the same person counts as one, and you can message people you’ve exchanged Sparks with without limit). Announcements from our team go to Mission Control, not Signal.
Related screens: Signal tab
Related terms: Step Signal, Mission Control, Ignite
In plain words: Message anonymously
A dedicated conversation for reaching people who haven’t shown their name or photos.
A dedicated way to get in touch with people who haven’t shown their name or photos, such as through anonymous Warps or Secret Filter. You make contact using any ID you choose, in a dedicated chat room, and you can leave at any time. Because you don’t know who the other person is, to stop the conversation you don’t block from a profile; instead use “🚪 Leave” on the conversation screen, or “Fade out conversations under this name” in the ⋮ menu (which can also lead to a soft block).
Neither person’s ID ever reaches the other’s device; you can chat, make voice calls and propose meet-ups entirely within the conversation. If you reveal your profile, the conversation carries over and becomes a regular Signal.
Requests for a mutual reveal or a profile reveal are accepted in the same way whoever the other person is (they don’t reach people with whom there is a block, but it never looks like a refusal). Profile reveal requests are limited to 5 per day in the same conversation.
Related screens: Warp list, Signal
Related terms: Signal, Live Warp, Secret Filter
Video during a call, only when you both turn it on
Calls start with voice. On calls placed from Signal by someone on Aurora or above, you can switch to video with “📹 Video ON” on the call screen. Video only flows when you both turn it on (it starts OFF, and stops immediately if either of you turns it OFF). The number and length of video calls depend on the caller’s plan (per day: Aurora 1, Star 2, Galaxy 3, Universe 5; 10–15 minutes each; counted within the day’s calls). When time is up, only the video stops and the voice call continues (with an extension, video continues for 15 more minutes; prices are shown in the app). Calls from anonymous conversations and Live Warp are voice only, and VortAR never records or stores video.
On Android, screen recording and screenshots are blocked; on iPhone, the other person’s video is hidden during screen recording or mirroring, and screenshots are notified to the other person. Photos of the screen taken with another device’s camera can’t be prevented, so don’t show anything you don’t want seen.
Related screens: Call screen
Related terms: Signal, Step Signal
Reminders about Sparks and Signals you haven’t answered yet.
Reminders about Sparks, Warp Sparks, Signals and Step Signals you haven’t answered yet, sent three times: 45 minutes, 5 hours and 20 hours after you received them. If the app wasn’t open when you received one, counting restarts the next time you open it. Replying, blocking or hiding your online status counts as “responded”, and responses to Signals also count toward the “Responsiveness” part of your Trust Score.
Related screens: Notifications
Related terms: Spark, Signal, Step Signal, Trust Score
In plain words: Mutual reveal search
A special search where you and matching people are revealed to each other at the same time.
A conditional search for special interests (including specific kinks). Conditions are registered as pairs of “what I do / what I accept in a partner” and are revealed only to matching people, at the same time for both. When few people match, the count is shown as a range such as “fewer than 10”, so you cannot tell who they are. Opening a card leaves only an anonymous note that “someone viewed you via Secret Filter”, and you can message anonymously from the opened card.
Related screens: Discovery
Related terms: Discovery, Preset, Step Signal
Safety & privacy
In plain words: Blur your location
Blurs your location so others don’t see your exact distance.
Veil blurs your location. When it’s on, the distance others see is rounded up and differs from the real distance. Distances are shown in the same format for everyone, so no one can tell from the display whether you use Veil. Set it in Settings → “🛡️ Shield Center” → “📍 Location privacy”.
Related screens: Shield Center “📍 Location privacy”
Related terms: Shield Center, Safe Zone, Hide online status (per person)
Changes how you appear around places like your home or workplace.
Set a circle centered on a place such as your home or workplace, and how you appear changes while you’re inside it. Warps you post inside a Safe Zone don’t disappear but are shown anonymously, without your name or photos. The area you set is shown only on your own map.
Related screens: Shield Center “📍 Location privacy”, Map
Related terms: Shield Center, Veil, Warp
Hide your online status from specific people only.
Hides your online status from the people you choose. There is also a list for choosing people who won’t see your Warps. How many people you can add depends on your rank, and you can manage them together in Connection Control. Disappearing from everyone at set times or places is a different feature, “Stealth Mode”.
Related screens: Profile, Connection Control
Related terms: Connection Control, Soft block, Shield Center
In plain words: Quietly keep your distance
Keep your distance without the other person noticing.
Lets you keep your distance without telling the other person. What they see of you freezes at the moment of the soft block, and you stop getting notifications from them. Use it from profile details, Signal or the notification list, or in the Warp list by long-pressing 👁. It’s different from “Block”, which cuts off contact completely.
You can keep your distance within VortAR without anyone getting hurt (soft block and block). If you want to be left alone, you can spend quiet time even if the other person reaches out.
While it’s on, the other person sees your profile and photos as they were when you turned it on (photos you replace or add afterwards aren’t visible to them). When you turn it off, they see your current profile and photos again.
Related screens: Profile, Signal, Notifications, Warp list
Related terms: Block, Quick hide, Hide online status (per person)
A block that makes you invisible to each other and stops all contact.
Makes you and the other person invisible to each other and stops all contact (full block). It may take a little while after blocking for lists to update. To keep your distance without them noticing, use a soft block instead. Block from the ⋮ menu on their profile or Signal chat, or from 🚫 on the call screen (for calls where names are shown). You can choose a reason when blocking (optional; never shown to them; you can add or change it within a week of blocking). Fraud, requests for money and the like reach our team directly with “Also report to VortAR”. You can report someone you’ve blocked later from the block list via [⋯] → [Report]. Blocks on Free are permanent. On Aurora and above, you can choose “Permanent” or “4 months (lifted automatically when it ends)” when blocking, and you can lift it partway (prices are shown in the app). “Undo” right after blocking is free for everyone.
Related screens: Profile, Signal, Call screen
Related terms: Soft block
Hide someone’s row in the Warp list from your own list for 24 hours.
Tap 👁 on someone’s row in the Warp list to hide that row from your list for 24 hours. Your own row has no 👁. Long-press 👁 for a soft block.
Related screens: Warp list
Related terms: Warp list, Soft block
In plain words: Safety & privacy
One screen for the settings that protect you: visibility, location, blocks, notifications and more.
A screen gathering the settings for how you’re seen, how you’re protected and how to stop contact; it’s at the very top of Settings. It’s divided into six headings: visibility, location, blocks, notifications, how you receive contact, and Disguise mode. Change Veil, Safe Zone, Stealth Mode, whether you appear in search results and more here.
Related screens: Settings
Related terms: Veil, Safe Zone, Hide online status (per person)
Switches the screen to look like another app, such as a weather app.
When someone might see your screen, switch it to look like a weather, map or transit app. It starts OFF and is available only to people who turn on “Disguise mode” in Settings → “🛡️ Shield Center”. Tap the same spot on the screen quickly three times to switch; to switch back, tap the same spot three times again, or long-press the title at the very top for about a second. Taps on things that react, such as buttons or the map, don’t count.
Related screens: Shield Center “🎭 Disguise mode”
Related terms: Shield Center
Ask someone to show you their private photos.
Ask someone to show you their face photo or Secret album photos (Frame 1 and Frame 2 one photo at a time; a set as a whole). Once approved, you can view them for 72 hours (each Signal exchange extends this to 72 hours from then). A reveal closes automatically after 72 hours without messages, and anyone who hasn’t viewed it yet can view it once more. Requests with no answer are withdrawn automatically after 14 days, and the sender can withdraw them at any time before that. If you set your own main photo back to private, pending requests for your main photo (except mutual reveal proposals) are withdrawn. How many you can send is set by a daily allowance, and you can buy more once it’s used up (unlimited on Universe; prices are shown in the app; withdrawing doesn’t restore that day’s allowance). This is separate from an “access request” for profile items, with its own allowance and price.
Related screens: Profile, Photo reveal management
Related terms: Passport, Shield Center
Trust
A score, separate from rank, that adds perks as trust builds up.
A trust score on a separate axis from paid ranks, with a maximum of 500 pt. It builds up through a fuller profile, keeping meet-up times, responding to Signals within 24 hours (by replying, blocking or hiding your online status), ratings after meeting and so on, and perks such as more Sparks and more footprint views increase with your score. The score is never shown to anyone (not even to you), but verification and 🏅 marks are shown to others. Once enough members and interaction records have built up, search can be narrowed to “🌟 Highly trusted” (the top people by trust, excluding anything paid).
Related screens: My Page, Edit profile
Related terms: Meet record, Mama’s recommendation, Spark, Footprints (Trace), ID verification
Confirms who you are with 📱 phone number and 🆔 documents.
There are two kinds of verification: 📱 phone verification (enter a code sent by SMS; available on Aurora and above) and 🆔 document verification (send an ID document and a selfie; our team reviews and approves or rejects it). The images you send are used only for the review and deleted after we tell you the result (your phone number isn’t stored in the app’s database either). Verified people get 📱 and 🆔 marks on their profile (anonymous cards show 🆔, and 📞 only if the person chooses; while few people are verified, people can also choose whether to show 🆔), and it counts toward the Trust Score.
Related screens: My Page
Related terms: Trust Score, Sentinel, Passport
In plain words: People you met
A record left when you planned to meet and actually met.
Make a meet-up plan (send “🤝 Propose a meet-up” from a Warp’s details and the other person accepts), tap the arrival button at the meeting place on the day, and scan each other’s codes: the meeting is then kept in the [Meet record] tab in History (it isn’t shown to the other person). After meeting, you can answer the questions from [Leave a meet record (4 questions)] in the plan’s details or from the notification that arrives 24 hours after the planned time, and your answers count toward trust (the other person can’t see what you answered). The ★ in the [Meet record] list is the number of your answers that were positive.
How it works: ① Send “🤝 Propose a meet-up” from a Warp’s details (a Warp on the map or in the Warp list) or from a Step Signal conversation (from a Warp, the date, time and place are filled in for you). ② When the other person accepts, the plan is set and a pin for it appears on your map (visible only to you). ③ On the day, from 1 hour before the planned time, tap [Arrived] at the meeting place (your location is checked). ④ Scan each other’s codes with the camera or enter them by hand; the meeting is marked as “met” and kept in the [Meet record] tab in History.
If the codes don’t match up: if you both tapped [Arrived] at the meeting place, it is kept as “met (location only)” about 20 minutes after the planned time (it counts less toward trust).
Answering the questions: after meeting, answer from [Leave a meet record (4 questions)] in the plan’s details (Signal tab → “🤝 Meet-up plans” → [History]), from the notification that arrives 24 hours after the planned time, or from [Leave a meet record] on a “No rating” row in the [Meet record] list in History. The other person can’t see what you answered; it is reflected in the ★ in the list and in trust. If you met someone without a meet-up plan, you can leave a record from [Meet record] on their profile (only with people you’ve been in touch with, and once a day per person). Records left that way also appear in the [Meet record] list as “Left without a meet-up plan” rows.
Related screens: History “Meet record”, 🤝 Meet-up plans (Signal)
Related terms: Meet-up plan, Trust Score, Flight Log
An endorsement from a bar’s Mama, shown with a 🏅 mark.
An endorsement showing that a bar’s Mama (the owner) has recommended a user. With at least one valid recommendation, a 🏅 mark lights up; it disappears when all have expired. You can receive recommendations from several Mamas, and they have expiry dates. Stopping or extending a recommendation is done by the Mama, and you can set who sees the mark yourself.
Related screens: Discovery, Profile, Map
Related terms: Sentinel, Bar member, Trust Score, Venue QR, Co-Mama
The role that gives endorsements (🏅). Currently held by bar Mamas.
Sentinel is the role that gives users endorsements (🏅); currently, bar Mamas hold it. People recommended by a Mama show 🏅. Endorsements have an expiry date and stop showing once they lapse.
Related screens: Profile, Mama’s screens
Related terms: Mama’s recommendation, Trust Score, Venue QR
A user who joined a bar through its Mama’s invite code.
Enter the bar member invite code you received from a bar’s Mama in Settings → “Community settings” → “Enter bar member code” to be registered as a member of that bar. If you stop being a member, you need to enter an invite code again to rejoin.
Related screens: Community settings
Related terms: Mama’s recommendation, Venue QR, Co-Mama
The Mama responsible for a venue. One per venue.
The Mama registered as responsible for a venue; there is one per venue. Besides editing venue information, bar members, recommendations and the venue QR code, the Lead Mama can mark the venue closed or withdraw it, invite or remove Co-Mamas, and hand over the lead role. If the Lead Mama leaves, the longest-serving Co-Mama takes over.
Related screens: Venue details, 🏪 My venue
Related terms: Co-Mama, Bar member, Mama’s recommendation, Venue QR
Someone who runs a venue together with the Lead Mama.
A Mama invited by the Lead Mama to run the venue together. Co-Mamas can edit venue information, add and remove bar members, recommend people in their own name, and use the venue QR code just like the Lead Mama. Enter the Lead Mama’s invite code in Settings → “Community settings” → “Enter Co-Mama code” and pass our team’s review. The number allowed depends on the Lead Mama’s plan: Aurora 1, Star 2, Galaxy 3, Universe 5.
Related screens: Venue details, 🏪 My venue, Community settings
Related terms: Lead Mama, Bar member, Mama’s recommendation, Venue QR
The QR code on a venue’s coasters.
A QR code printed on a venue’s coasters and so on. Scan it inside the venue to be registered as a regular there, and the date and time of your visit are recorded. If you already have an endorsement (🏅) from that venue’s Mama, scanning extends it (at most once every 30 days per venue). When scanning, your location is used only to check that you’re near the venue.
Related screens: Venue details, Mama’s screens
Related terms: Mama’s recommendation, Bar member, Sentinel, Co-Mama
Screens & lists
In plain words: People nearby
The main screen for browsing people nearby, closest first.
A screen listing people nearby right now, closest first. Narrow it with filters and presets. To search all registered users with conditions, use 🔍 “Search” at the top right. Venues and groups can be found under “Community” in the same 🔍.
Related screens: Discovery tab
Related terms: Preset, Veil, Secret Filter, Community
In plain words: Popular & new
A tab of people who got the most Sparks, and people who just joined.
The second tab at the top of Discovery. [Weekly] and [Monthly] rank people by Sparks received, and [🆕 New] lists people nearby who joined within the last 7 days, newest first. Filters and modes (“What are you looking for?”) apply only to “Browse”, not here.
Related screens: Discovery “🔥HOT”
Related terms: Discovery, Spark, Orbit
A list for finding venues and groups. It’s inside 🔍.
A list of venues, groups and circles registered on VortAR; open 🔍 at the top right of Discovery and choose “Community”. Search by name or area, and tap a row to open its details. If you run a venue or group, register from “Apply to register” at the bottom of the list. This is a different screen from Settings → “Community settings”, which gathers registration and code entry.
Related screens: 🔍 at the top right of Discovery → “Community”
Related terms: Discovery, Mama’s recommendation, Venue QR, Bar member
A saved combination of filter conditions and the items shown on cards.
A saved set of Discovery filter conditions plus the items shown on cards (up to 3). Tap a chip to switch instantly. How many you can save depends on your rank, and you can also receive presets from friends.
Related screens: Discovery filters
Related terms: Discovery, Preset library
A screen for sharing and managing presets.
A screen for sharing and managing presets. Presets that are most popular overall are listed in the “Hall of Fame”.
Related screens: Preset library
Related terms: Preset
Your profile screen as others see it (internal name).
Passport is the internal name for your profile screen as other people see it. In the app it’s shown as “Profile”. You can set the visibility of each item.
Related screens: Profile
Related terms: Footprints (Trace), Mama’s recommendation
Where announcements from our team arrive.
Mission Control (MC) is where announcements from our team arrive. Choose [From VortAR] at the top of 🔔 Notifications to see it. Important announcements are shown once when you open the app. Messages between users arrive in Signal.
Related screens: 🔔 Notifications [From VortAR]
Related terms: Signal
One screen to manage favorites, people of interest, hidden online status and more.
A screen for managing your per-person lists together: ⚓ Anchor (favorites), Radar List (people of interest), Hide online status (per person), people who don’t see your Warps, and so on. How many people each list can hold depends on your rank.
Related screens: Connection Control
Related terms: ⚓ Anchor (favorites), Radar List, Hide online status (per person)
In plain words: Favorites
Users you’ve saved as favorites.
⚓ Anchor means users you’ve saved as favorites; the list is public. When someone you’ve anchored posts a Warp, it appears under “Watch list” in Warp search. You can send Warp notices to people who have anchored you. Favorite places are called ⚓ Spot.
Related screens: Connection Control
Related terms: Connection Control, Radar List, Warp notice, ⚓ Spot
A private list of people you’re interested in.
Radar List is a list of people you’re interested in that only you can see. When someone on it posts a Warp, it appears under “Watch list” in Warp search. They’re never told, and you don’t get notifications. How many people you can add depends on your rank (Free 3 to Universe 50).
Related screens: Connection Control
Related terms: Connection Control, ⚓ Anchor (favorites)
A record of who viewed your profile, and whose profiles you viewed.
When you open someone’s profile, a record is left in their [Visited you] and in your [You visited], and you can see them in the [Footprints] tab in History. The same person is kept as one entry, and only the time is updated each time you open the profile. How long they’re kept and how many you can see depend on your rank, and you can see more once your Trust Score reaches 70 pt.
How long and how many (for [Visited you] and [You visited] each): Free 3 days, 20 / Aurora 7 days, 50 / Star 14 days, 100 / Galaxy 30 days, 200 / Universe 90 days, 500.
When no footprint is left: opening the profile of someone you’ve hidden your online status from (per person) or soft-blocked doesn’t leave a footprint. People you’ve blocked don’t appear in the lists.
Deleting: on [You visited], tap 🗑 on a row to delete that footprint (it also disappears from the other person’s [Visited you] and can’t be undone). You can delete Aurora 10, Star 30 and Galaxy 100 times a month, and Universe without limit; Free can’t delete (a 🔒 appears on the row). The count resets at the start of each month, Japan time.
Related screens: History
Related terms: Flight Log, Passport, Trust Score
In plain words: History
The name of the screen that gathers your likes, meet records, footprints, favorites and top picks.
Flight Log is the name of the History tab (formerly “Activity”). See your Spark history (received and sent), meet records, footprints (visited you and you visited), ⚓ Anchor (received and sent) and Ignite all in one place.
Related screens: History tab
Related terms: Footprints (Trace), ⚓ Anchor (favorites), Spark
In plain words: Who’s hot right now
Horizontally scrolling lists at the top of Discovery “Browse”.
Horizontally scrolling lists at the top of Discovery “Browse”: 🔥 Most Sparked, 🟢 Online now, 🎯 Today’s mood (Live Warp categories) and more; how many you can show depends on your rank. 🔥 is available on every rank, and the others are added as your rank goes up (people who just joined are in “🆕 New” on the “🔥HOT” tab). Choose which lists to show, one by one, with ⚙ (🛰 Orbit settings) to the right of Orbit.
Related screens: Discovery “Browse”
Related terms: Discovery, Live Warp
Keep recommended people you haven’t decided on for 7 days.
A place to keep recommended people you don’t want to decide on yet, for 7 days. You can keep as many as your daily number (they don’t count toward the daily number). The other person is never told.
Related screens: Discovery ✨ Recommended
Related terms: Navigator
Ranks
The free rank.
VortAR Free is the free rank (¥0 monthly and annually). You can save 1 preset and overlay 2 map layers. There are no limits on applying or switching filters. It used to be called “VortAR Spark” but was renamed to avoid confusion with Spark, the like feature.
Related screens: My Page
Related terms: VortAR Aurora, Spark, Trust Score
A paid rank at ¥690/month. Card frames glow cyan.
VortAR Aurora is a paid rank at ¥690 per month (3 months ¥1,700; annual ¥5,500 = about 34% off 12 × monthly). You can save 2 presets and use 3 map layers. Your Discovery card has a cyan frame. A launch discount may apply (conditions are shown in the app).
Related screens: My Page, Discovery
Related terms: VortAR Free, VortAR Star
A paid rank at ¥1,280/month. Card frames glow gold.
VortAR Star is a paid rank at ¥1,280 per month (3 months ¥3,200; annual ¥9,800 = about 36% off 12 × monthly). You can save 3 presets and use 4 map layers. Your Discovery card has a gold frame. A launch discount may apply (conditions are shown in the app).
Related screens: My Page, Discovery
Related terms: VortAR Aurora, VortAR Galaxy
A paid rank at ¥1,980/month. Card frames glow purple.
VortAR Galaxy is a paid rank at ¥1,980 per month (3 months ¥4,900; annual ¥15,800 = about 34% off 12 × monthly). You can save 5 presets and use 6 map layers. Your Discovery card has a purple frame. A launch discount may apply (conditions are shown in the app).
Related screens: My Page, Discovery
Related terms: VortAR Star, VortAR Universe
The top rank at ¥2,980/month. Card frames glow pink.
VortAR Universe is the top rank at ¥2,980 per month (3 months ¥7,400; annual ¥23,800 = about 33% off 12 × monthly). You can save 10 presets and overlay all map layers. Your Discovery card has a pink frame. A launch discount may apply (conditions are shown in the app).
Related screens: My Page, Discovery
Related terms: VortAR Galaxy, Future Warp
First 100 only: a one-time ¥39,800 for Galaxy-level access for life.
Founding Member is a plan for the first 100 people only: a one-time payment (¥39,800) gives you a rank equivalent to VortAR Galaxy for life (= for as long as the Service is provided, and for at least 3 years from purchase), with no refund even if the Service ends (Terms of Service 7-5 and 7-8). Sales end when the limit is reached; there will be no extension by date, additional sales or price cuts. Your profile shows a Founding Member badge and your purchase number (#1–#100), and you can hide the badge and the number separately in settings (there is no screen that lists Founding Members). The badge is different from marks of trust such as verification or endorsements, and does not affect your Trust Score.
Related screens: Choose a plan, Profile, Visibility settings
Related terms: VortAR Galaxy, Sentinel, Trust Score
Profile terms
Where you’re active, written freely on your profile. Separate from your device’s location.
In “Where you’re active” under Edit basic profile, write anything you like, such as “around Shinjuku” or “southern Tochigi” (up to 30 characters). Masked characters or letter combinations are fine, and it’s separate from your device’s location (you don’t have to fill it in). Choose who can see it under “Where you’re active” in Edit basic profile or in Visibility settings (when you first enter it, everyone is selected). While it’s visible to everyone, it appears under your name on your profile and matches anyone’s keyword search; while it’s limited, for example to matches, it matches only the searches of people allowed to see that field (such as matches).
Related screens: Edit basic profile, Visibility settings, Other people’s profiles
Related terms: Discovery, Shield Center
What you’re looking for, chosen on your profile. Pick any of the three.
Under “Type and purpose” in your profile, pick any of the three: ⚡ Meet now (meet now or soon) / 🤝 Meet new people (talk first, connect as friends) / 💑 Find a partner (romance, a lasting relationship). If you haven’t decided, choose 🤔 Undecided (it can’t be combined with the others, and in filters and recommendations it’s treated the same as not choosing a purpose). Purpose is used for filtering the nearby list, compatibility, recommendations, “Similar people” and things in common. Its default visibility is everyone.
Related screens: My Page “Purpose”, Edit basic profile
Related terms: Navigator, Discovery
A visibility level where you and the people you approve show each other the same items.
Items set to this level are hidden from everyone at first. When someone taps [Request] on a locked item in your profile and you approve, that item becomes visible to both of you at the same time (you can see their same item too). While you don’t show your own same item to them, you can’t see theirs even with an approval. Even after approving, you can close it for each person in “🔐 Access management” in the Shield Center.
How to choose it: Go to My Page → ⚙️ Settings → 🛡️ Shield Center → “👁 Visibility settings” and choose “Mutual reveal on request” for each item (you can also change the same setting in the “👁 Visibility” row on Edit basic profile and on each item’s input screen). Financial info, marital status, who you live with, living outlook, family involvement, lifestyle & values and contact tools start with this setting.
When a request arrives: When someone taps [Request] on your item, you get a notification and can approve it in “🔐 Access management”. Once you approve, only the items you approved (out of those requested) become visible to both of you at the same time (never to just one side). How many requests you can send is set by a daily allowance that depends on your rank.
Showing each other: You can see someone’s item only while your same item is also visible to them (everyone, mutual reveal on request, or matches only with someone you’ve matched). You can’t keep your own item hidden and still see theirs.
To stop: Go to My Page → ⚙️ Settings → 🛡️ Shield Center → “🔐 Access management” → “Profile items” and tap “Close” for that person. Once you close, you immediately lose access to their items (if they haven’t viewed yours yet, they can view them one more time). “Mutual item reveal” is a different level: the item is visible only when you have matched and both set the same item to that same setting, and there are no requests.
Related screens: 👁 Visibility settings, Item input screens (👁 Visibility), 🔐 Access management
Related terms: Shield Center, Photo reveal request
A visibility level shown only to matches who set the same item the same way.
Items set to this level are hidden from everyone at first. Only when you and the other person have matched and you both set the same item to “Mutual item reveal” does that item become visible to both of you at the same time (there are no requests or approvals). If they’ve set that item to something else, such as everyone, you can’t see it even after matching.
How to choose it: Go to My Page → ⚙️ Settings → 🛡️ Shield Center → “👁 Visibility settings” and choose “Mutual item reveal” for each item (you can also change the same setting in the “👁 Visibility” row on each item’s input screen; some items don’t offer this setting).
How it differs from mutual reveal on request: with “Mutual reveal on request”, you show each other an item when you approve the other person’s [Request]. “Mutual item reveal” has no requests: it shows the item to both of you automatically when you’ve matched and both set that same item the same way. In both cases, you can’t see someone’s item while you don’t show them yours.
To stop: change the visibility to another setting. From then on it no longer works as a mutual item reveal (your item is shown according to the new setting).
Related screens: 👁 Visibility settings, Item input screens (👁 Visibility)
Related terms: Mutual reveal on request, Shield Center
For people whose fit as top or bottom changes with time or partner.
“Toki ni yori” is the choice for people whose fit as tachi (top) or uke (bottom) changes with the partner, their mood or health, their age, or changes in their life. Where “riba” (versatile) means “I can do both,” “toki ni yori” means “I lean one way right now, but that may change.” It isn’t only position: some people find that the gender they’re attracted to, or how they understand their own gender (gender identity), shifts over the years, and that’s not unusual. When things change, you can choose again on your profile at any time.
Everyone changes differently: Some people shift slowly over many years; others change with the partner they’re seeing or how they feel at the time. Some enjoy both with a steady partner but lean one way in other situations. There’s no right answer, and choosing what feels closest to you right now is enough.
Attraction and gender identity, too: The gender you’re attracted to (sexual orientation) and how you understand your own gender (gender identity) aren’t always the same for life. Some people realize things as adults, some feel differently as the years go by, and some never change. Changing and not changing are both natural, and neither is something other people can make happen to you. You can change your sexual orientation and gender identity at any time under My Page → “📝 Basic profile” → “🏳️🌈 Community & lifestyle,” and choose who can see them.
How it’s used in finding people: In compatibility and recommendations, “toki ni yori” is treated like “Undecided,” without assuming either side (it neither raises nor lowers a score). You can also look for “toki ni yori” people with the Position filter on the nearby list. If you clearly lean one way right now, choosing that position makes it easier for people whose wishes match to find you.
Related screens: Sign-up (Type and purpose), Edit basic profile (Matching settings)
Related terms: Riba (versatile), Purpose
A position for people who can take either the top or bottom role.
“Riba” is the position for people who can take either role, tachi (top) or uke (bottom); it corresponds to “versatile,” or “vers,” in English. Which way someone leans differs from person to person. If you clearly find that what fits you changes with the partner or over time, you can also choose “toki ni yori.”
Related screens: Sign-up (Type and purpose), Edit basic profile (Matching settings)
Related terms: “Toki ni yori” (depends on the time), Purpose
An optional item where transgender users can write which gender they are transitioning to.
An optional community item where transgender users can write which gender they are transitioning (or plan to transition) to (e.g. FTM (trans man)). Once you enter and save it, a “Direction of transition” row appears in Visibility settings, and you can choose who sees it separately from gender identity and sexual orientation. At first only matches can see it; only when set to everyone does it also appear on list cards for people filtering by gender identity. On other people’s profiles it appears on the row after “Gender identity” (people who can’t see it only see a locked row).
Related screens: Community details, Visibility settings, Other people’s profiles
Related terms: Discovery, Where you’re active
Medication taken to prevent HIV infection (pre-exposure prophylaxis).
Short for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. It’s an anti-HIV medication taken by HIV-negative people to prevent infection, and taken correctly it is said to greatly reduce the risk of infection. Please consult a medical provider about taking it. In the Health & safety items of your profile, you can choose your own use and what you’d like in a partner.
Related screens: Edit profile (Health & safety)
Related terms: Passport
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