How do I hide my SeniorMatch profile?

Where the switches are

They are all on one page, Privacy and Visibility, reached from Settings. SeniorMatch’s help answer dated 13 October 2026 ends with the line that matters: “Please note that only premium members can hide their profiles.”

Reading down the page on 12 November 2026, the first switch stands alone and works on a free account: Hide my current location. Everything after it sits inside a box headed “The following features are available only to Premium members”:

• Hide my city
• Hide me from all members
• Hide me from women, and Hide me from men
• Show only to members I like
• Show my profile to members I like or paying members
• Show me to members in all regions, my country only, or selected regions
• Show me to members of a chosen age

A second Premium box covers what you do rather than what you are: Browse profiles anonymously, Hide my online status from my profile, and Hide my activities in “Moments”.

What hiding does to your messages

Less than you might expect. SeniorMatch’s help page says “even if your profile is hidden, you can still send and receive messages from members with visible profiles.”

Its answer dated 30 July 2026 describes the same thing from the other chair. A member who comes across a hidden profile “can still send them a message” but “won’t be able to view their profile or send them a wink”, and cannot like them either. Hidden means unseen. It does not mean unreachable.

When Premium ends

The foot of the privacy page carries a notice: “Premium-only settings will be restored to default when your Premium Membership expires.”

That is not what our account showed. Its Premium ended on 20 October 2026. On 12 November 2026, 23 days later, the Hide me from all members switch was still in the on position, the Settings page still summarised the account’s visibility as Hidden, and the small badge on the account’s own photo still read “hidden”.

We do not know what other members could see. We only know what the page told us about ourselves, and it did not match the notice. If you are relying on being hidden, or relying on being visible again, open the page after your Premium ends and read it.

What you can do without paying

Three things, none of them the same as hiding.

Hide my current location is the one free switch on the privacy page. Its own description is “When enabled, others can’t see your current location.”

Pause the account. The privacy page says “You can pause your account to hide your profile and photos from others without deleting your account.” It sits in Settings behind a password prompt, and it was offered to our free account. We did not use it.

Enable Global Visibility is a switch in Settings, outside the Premium box, described as “When this is on, you and members in other countries with Global Visibility enabled can see each other.” Turning it off narrows who can find you across borders.

Hiding one person

Blocking is a different tool. SeniorMatch’s answer dated 30 July 2025 separates two things. “Hidden from my search” means you stop seeing that member in results, though they can still see and contact you. “Hide” is the stronger one: “Both parties will be unable to contact each other, will not appear in each other’s search results.”

The Premium privileges list names “Hide certain profiles from search” as a paid feature. SeniorMatch’s safety tips tell every member to use the hide button on a profile when someone makes them uneasy. We hid nobody, so we have not confirmed which of the two works on a free account.