What If?
In our past eHarmony reviews, we were actually fans of this functionality. However, it looks like we were in the minority as the company has since discontinued it.
SMS Verification
eHarmony has added in the ability to verify your account through an SMS text message. It’s a simple process, but goes along way to weeding out fake profiles. All you have to do is put in your mobile phone number and eHarmony will send you a text with a code. Once you input that code on the eHarmony website or app, you mennation are verified! From then, you get a badge on your profile that shows you have been verified.
Integrated Video Chat
Probably the biggest highlight of our most recent eHarmony reviews was the discovery of the integrated video chat feature. This allows you to video chat with matches from right within the platform without the need to exchange phone numbers, Skype contacts, or anything like that. You are required to send messages before requesting a video chat, which is a nice feature to make sure you’re not getting requests from people you don’t want to talk to.
Free Communication Weekends
For those of you that aren’t quite ready to join eHarmony, they have free communication weekends fairly regularly that will let you use a lot of the features for free. What we recommend is that even if you aren’t planning on joining the site, you should create an account just so you can be ready for one of these weekends.
During the weekend, any member of the site is free to flirt, send questions, or write messages/respond to other singles.
There are a few features that you won’t get access to without upgrading, though. These are the ability to see who visited your profile, the What If? function, and the ability to see other member’s photos. Continue reading “Sadly, the What If swiping feature has been discontinued”