Matching Criteria

SilverSingles offers a very comprehensive personality questionnaire to new users. It's not mandatory to complete the entire thing, but the more questions you answer, the more likely the site's ability to match you with more compatible dates. We're not sure exactly how many you can answer but our reviewer stopped at around 50 questions. The site probes around your character traits, your expectations from a relationship, your values, and more. Some questions ask you to review a statement and say how much it applies to you. Others ask you to choose from a list of answers. Some use visual cues and ask you to select from a group of images the one that appeals most to you. It's actually a fun experience—you get to think about important life questions, examine your beliefs and desires, and even get to know yourself a little better in the process. It also built our reviewer's confidence that SilverSingles' proprietary algorithms are likely to score high when recommending suitable matches.

Profile Customization

SilverSingles offers a variety of effective ways to customize your profile. In addition to answering the site's lengthy questionnaire to assist with finding you matches, you have the opportunity to fill out a wide variety of profile sections to help potential dates get to know you. The profile topics are more probing and direct than we've seen on some sites and, in our reviewer's opinion, provide an excellent framework for presenting yourself in a frank, positive, and forthright manner.

SilverSingles allows users to change their preferences at any time while subscribing to the service. We learn as we go, of course, especially in relationships, so this feature is especially important to long-term users.

SilverSingles encourages you to upload multiple photos to the site. Photos can be cropped from within your profile, saving you the time it takes to edit in another app. You can access SilverSingles online. iPhone and Android users can also download the company's mobile app to browse, make changes to their profiles, and communicate with other users on the fly. 

Interface Features

SilverSingles is easy to use, even for first-time dating app users. The site walks you through setting up your profile. You can get provide as much or as little detail as you wish with the option of completing all or just a few of the questions offered to clarify your relationship preferences. If you sign up for a subscription—they're available for 3, 6, or 12-month terms—you earn the opportunity to view unlimited profiles, see the profiles of everyone who has viewed your own, and send unlimited messages. When you log into your account, you can click on the Matches tab to view a curated list of potential dates that SilverSingles recommends for you. The site also reports how closely a profile matches your preferences with a score indicated at the top of each user's profile that's designated by a heart. However, the site doesn't offer a sophisticated set of filters to narrow your searches. It's all done behind the scenes. So if you want to see profiles of members aged 60 one day and 70 another day, the site won't let you narrow your choices down at that level.

Unlike some online dating sites, SilverSingles does not currently facilitate video chat. Conversations are limited to text communications within the app.

SilverSingles promotes itself on the basis of offering more extensive customer service than other sites. If you're struggling with something technical or want advice on creating your profile, you can contact the company via email and a customer service rep will help you resolve any issues.

Privacy and Security Measures

As popular as it has become, even experienced daters will tell you that online dating often is a strange business. There are plenty of scammers out there with questionable agendas. SilverSingles provides guidelines on its website on how to write a profile, though it doesn't provide direct advice on how to keep yourself safe when writing your profile or communicating with other members. That's where common sense comes in. Your profile should be anonymous and you should keep identifying information like your full name, address, and phone number to yourself until you are confident you can trust the person you're interested in and decide to move your conversation off the platform and into the real world. SilverSingles reports that it performs daily profile checks to ensure that users ae behaving appropriately, but with 800,000 potential matches on the site, it's hard to imagine that all profiles are checked regularly. Then there's the question of whether you want to have your dating correspondence monitored, but we'll leave that for another day. 

SilverSingles does its part to protect your personal data by employing SSL Encryption and an undefined fraud detection system.

SilverSingles' privacy policy is not as airtight as many users would like it to be. The company makes money, in part, by partnering with advertising companies and social media platforms to serve you up product and service offers that have nothing to do with your business with SilverSingles. If you click on any of these ads, your experience is governed by the privacy policy of the company represented. So unless you're careful, you may wind up receiving a lot of unsolicited and/or irrelevant offers, The site operates on par, from a privacy perspective, with many other dating sites. It's just something you should be aware of as you consider joining any online dating site.

Inclusivity

When you sign up for SilverSingles, the first question you're asked is what your sex is, That can be a complicated question because sex is not always the same as gender. Many individuals identify as non-binary or have transitioned to a different sex. The next question you're asked is about your sexual preference: whether you are interested in meeting men or women. If you're a straight or gay man or woman who still identifies with the sex you were assigned at birth and you're interested in finding partners of just one sex, SilverSingles has you covered. Bisexual and gender-fluid individuals will have a harder time making the site work for them. SilverSingles is not alone—most dating sites operate this way. That's why many people for whom sexual preference and gender are more complicated often gravitate to sites designed specifically for LGBTQ+ users.