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title: Changing your match preferences | Pairc Goodman
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# Changing your match preferences

Pause matching, set distance and quality, and choose how often you hear about matches.

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You can control how matching works for you.

1. Open Matches and press Match preferences.
2. Change the settings you want.
3. Press Save preferences.

The settings are:

- Pause matching: stops new suggestions and notifications until you turn it off again.
- Maximum distance and Minimum match quality, under Distance & quality.
- Category interests: tick the categories you want matches for. Leave them all unticked to match on every category.
- Match digest frequency: Daily, Fortnightly, Monthly or Never.
- Hot match alerts: be told straight away about very strong matches.
- Mutual match alerts: be told when a match works both ways.

Distance settings only work if your profile has a location.

[Go to this page](/matches/preferences)

## More guides in this topic

[Browsing the member directory](/help/members/finding_people/member_directory) [Connecting with other members](/help/members/finding_people/connections) [Searching the community](/help/members/finding_people/search) [Using the Explore page](/help/members/finding_people/explore_page) [Your matches and suggestions](/help/members/finding_people/matches) [Skills directory and endorsements](/help/members/finding_people/skills_and_endorsements)

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