Facebook Dating adds three new features - Audio Dates, Lucky Pick and Match Anywhere

(Pocket-lint) - Three caller features are heading to Facebook Dating, arsenic the societal media elephantine aims to propel itself into contention with Tinder and Bumble. 

The dating work is adding Audio Dates, Match Anywhere and Lucky Pick, each variations of akin features offered by rival apps - and ones that person seen accrued request owed to the pandemic.

The caller additions were elaborate successful a Twitter thread from Facebook Communications' Alexandru Voica.

Audio Dates is possibly the astir notable of the caller trio, moving beauteous overmuch however you would expect from the name. This allows a idiosyncratic who has matched with different to nonstop an invitation for a dependable call, effectively, which tin past beryllium accepted oregon rejected. 

This matches the acquisition successful different apps, though immoderate person besides precocious this to video calls, too. 

Match Anywhere is different self-explanatory diagnostic rolling retired to Facebook Dating, allowing users to acceptable up 2 further locations to look for matches. This is perfect for radical who often hop betwixt antithetic places, oregon are possibly temporarily successful different location.

There's besides Lucky Pick, which volition spot daters capable to see different users who don't rather acceptable wrong their emblematic preferences. This should, according to the Twitter thread, assistance those who don't person hard and accelerated preferences person an accidental to inactive support their options open.

The changes, then, are definite improvements to an early-stages dating app that's inactive looking to grow its reach.

With Facebook besides releasing different dating app, Sparked, backmost successful April, it's pugnacious to truly cognize however agelong these changes volition proceed to rotation in, truthful bask your Audio Calls portion you can.

Writing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 11 August 2021.