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Six. Two or three reads as a bot or a throwaway account and gets suppressed accordingly; more than seven and your weakest photo drags the set down, because people judge closer to the worst photo than the best.
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It is a swipe-first app with no prompt to rescue a weak lead. Your card gets under a second, so photo one is doing nearly all the work and the rest only matter to people who already paused.
That makes it the highest-leverage thing to test, and Tinder's volume means you get an answer within days.
One clear face shot in good light. One full body. One doing something you actually do. One social where you are still obviously the subject. Two for variety - different setting, clothes, season.
Six near-identical photos count as one photo.
Group shot first. Sunglasses first. Mirror and car selfies. Dog with no you in frame. Anything more than about two years old.
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