Once you’ve uploaded your photo (or not), you need to make sure your location settings are turned on on the device you’re using.
And that’s it. There is nothing complicated about the Pure sign-up process. Also, you’ll have to create a new account every time you use the app.
How Does Pure Work?
Pure app requires you to publish your personal ad on the app. After you signup, you’ve to complete your profile and post it on Personal Ads. To see other people in your feed, you need to post your Ad. There, you’ve to write what kind of experience you are looking for and find someone who would share the same experience with you. And, your profile and chat self-destructs after 24 hours.
Are Pure’s Profiles Real?
Hook-up apps are always fraught with a little bit of risk because you never quite know how many fake profiles you’re going to come across.
The way the Pure app is set up means it seems at first to be harder than ever to tell whether a profile is real or fake.
For example, no one is obliged to add any photos if they don’t want to, and neither are they obliged to list their age. The Pure team even reminds you that you shouldn’t ask someone their age because it’s purely up to them whether or not they want to reveal it in their profile.
Pure is unique in that ALL the profiles are temporary. They’re also self-destructing. Everyone gets an hour to use their account after they first create it. If they haven’t arranged to meet up with someone by then, their profile is deleted.
On the one hand, this can discourage fake profiles because they only get one hour to get noticed at a time. On the other hand, it can also encourage scammers because a) no one is obliged to add PURE photos of themselves and b) everyone is in a hurry to arrange a meeting before their messages get deleted.
Unfortunately, no. The “anonymous dating” nature of the site makes it tricky to spot whether someone is fooling you, and you have to rely on your own instinct and your own vetting processes to verify that someone is genuine. Whatever you usually do to stay safe online and offline, you need to do that.
You could, for example, get chatting to someone on Pure and swap numbers before your time limit is up. This is in theory a good way of verifying someone is real before you meet them in person (maybe you could have a quick phone call with them).
Pure themselves have at least taken steps to ensure they catch as many fake profiles as possible as quickly as possible. For example, they’ve implemented a community regulatory system, which allows you to report anyone you think is suspicious/fake. Other than that, they advise you to use your own common sense at all times.
That all said, the majority of profiles on Pure are real. However, because of the self-destructing nature of the app, there is barely any detail added to any of the profiles. Instead, all anyone has to work with is a profile picture and a line or two that states what you’re interested in.
The general idea is that, to stand out, you should add your sexiest profile picture possible, as well as one or two lines that you know will catch someone’s attention. Most people simply state what they want out of this, whilst others will add their age and location.