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New survey finds more than half of Brits think dating apps should have height filters

Where do you stand?

Emily Sergeant - 19th June 2025

More than half of Brits agree that dating apps should let you filter people by height, a new survey has revealed.

There's no two ways about it, to some people, size matters... and by 'size' we mean height.

If you haven't heard the news or seen the ongoing discourse on social media yet, dating app Tinder caused a bit of a stir when it announced last week that it would be starting to let its users filter their potential matches by height - which many have been quick to brand as 'disadvantaging' for those who are considered.

It comes after competing dating app, Bumble, also similarly reported that most women set their lowest limit at 6ft for men, which would essentially exclude 85% of potential matches.

Despite this, it seems men and women are both in agreement, as a new YouGov survey has revealed that 56% of men and 55% of women think that dating apps should allow people to decide what heights are suitable for them.

In fact, the number of men (23%) disagreeing with this is actually slightly lower than the number of women (29%), even though it's seen as more of a disadvantage to men.

While height has been the big talking point in recent days, there's also a couple of other factors included in the YouGov survey, and it's these that appear to have divided the public more in their responses.

Should dating apps let users filter by height? Most women say yes - and so do most men

Women: 55% say yes
Men: 56% yes

Women who have ever used dating apps: 67% yes
Men who have ever used dating apps: 62% yes

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First up, a contentious one - weight.

Just over half (51%) of men who responded to the survey support allowing dating app users to filter by how heavy their potential partner is, while this figure falls to just 36% among women, and among the younger age group of 18-29 year olds, 68% of women say they are opposed to it.

Men in that age group are also the most likely to be against weight filtering too, coming in at a 38% opposition, but nevertheless, 51% of young men still do tend to think it's a legitimate metric for choosing potential partners.

When it comes to other attributes, the public tend to say that dating apps should allow users to filter people by their education level at 48%, but not by their income, which only 29% see as appropriate.

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