On your phone
Sex App UK: Keep British Sex Contact on Your Home Screen
It runs in your phone’s browser, so you can use it without installing anything.
Phone or computer
One web app, two screens
British Sex Contact works as a web app. Open it in the browser on a phone or a computer, and a phone’s home screen can hold a shortcut to it beside your other apps.
On your phone
Messages, daily matches, photos and status updates all work from the browser. Add the site to your home screen if you want a shortcut.
On a computer
The same account on a bigger screen, handy for writing a longer profile, sorting photos or reading a long thread. The features page lists everything you get, on either screen.
Home screen
Put it on your home screen
Open the site in your phone’s browser
Sign in and check that your profile looks the way you want.
Find the Share or menu button
Look for your browser’s Share button or its menu. Either one lists the things you can do with the page.
Choose the option to add it to your home screen
The wording changes from phone to phone. If yours offers a name, pick one you are happy for other people to see, then confirm.
A home screen is a public place if your phone gets passed around. Prefer no icon? Skip these steps and open the site from your browser each time.
Keep it private
Five ways to keep it to yourself
- Notification previews off. If your phone shows message previews on the lock screen, switch them off so nobody glancing at it can read a word.
- A screen lock. If your phone is lost or left on a table, a passcode, fingerprint or face lock stands between your messages and whoever picks it up.
- Log out on shared devices. On a shared or work computer, log out when you finish and do not let the browser save your password.
- A username used nowhere else. RAINN, a US sexual violence charity, advises a username without your full name, location or age. A handle you use on social media can be searched, and it can lead back to you.
- No real name in photos or captions. Keep your name out of captions, and name badges, street signs and number plates out of shot. The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the UK personal safety charity, advises switching off location tags before you send pictures, since photo files can record where they were taken.
Before you sign up
Five questions to ask any hookup app
Put these to every hookup app before you hand over a photo or a card. The last column is how British Sex Contact answers, and the safety page lists every protection.
| Question to ask | Why it matters | What British Sex Contact does |
|---|---|---|
| Can members prove who they are? | A badge shows who chose to prove they are real. Everyone else you judge by how they behave. | The ID check is optional and earns a verified badge. There is also a live video check with a moderator, which needs no paperwork. |
| Can I block and report at once? | You want an unpleasant chat over in one move, not a hunt through menus. | Blocking is instant, and reporting is built in. |
| Does it show a town or an address? | A town is enough to arrange a meet. Nobody you have not met needs your street. | Other members see only your nearest town or city, with a username in place of your name and email. |
| How do billing and cancelling work? | Know when a payment comes round again, and how to stop it, before you give card details. | Plans other than the 12-month ones renew until you cancel. Ask support or the chat bot, and paid benefits run to the end of the period. The pricing page has the detail. |
| Who checks the images? | In a 2022 survey of 6,034 US adults by the research group Pew, 38% of those who had tried dating sites or apps reported being sent explicit messages or images they never requested. | Images, videos and text are screened on upload, using software and human review, and a sensitive picture stays blurred behind a warning until you decide to open it. |
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Questions about the sex app
Is there a British Sex Contact app?
British Sex Contact works as a web app. Sign in from your phone’s browser and keep it on your home screen for quick access, or use a computer with the same profile, matches and messages.
Can I use it on iPhone and Android?
Yes. It is a website, so an iPhone or an Android phone can use it in the browser, and so can a computer, with the same account on each. The home-screen option is worded a little differently from phone to phone.
How do I keep it private on my phone?
Switch off lock-screen previews, set a screen lock, log out on shared devices, use a username you have nowhere else and keep names and street signs out of photos. The site adds a username in place of your name and shows only your nearest town or city.
Do I need to download anything?
You can use it without installing anything. Open the site in your browser, join and carry on from there. A home-screen shortcut is optional, and it opens the same site you would reach from the browser, with the same profile, matches and messages.
How do I cancel?
Plans other than the 12-month ones renew until you cancel. Ask support (by chat or messaging, at any hour) or the chat bot to cancel, then follow the cancellation link they email you. Paid features stay switched on until the term you have paid for is over, and cancelling does not delete your profile. The pricing page has the renewal details.
Open it on your phone and look around
Join, set your privacy settings first and decide whether it earns a place on your home screen.
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