Apple just dropped a bomb on the queer hookup scene — and folks are upset. The tech giant quietly pulled Sniffies, the popular cruising and meetup app, from the App Store, leaving LGBTQIA+ users ...

Ever find yourself being horny while working out at the gym? In the middle of a shift at work? Riding the subway? Visiting boring family members? Well, does Sniffies have a solution for you! This week ...

After seven years as a browser-only cruising platform, Sniffies officially launched an iOS version March 3. As an app, it joins the ranks of competitors like Grindr and Scruff. But unlike those, with ...

Less than one-third of Sniffies users identified as gay in 2025, with bisexual men narrowly outnumbering gay men on the popular cruising app, according to the platform’s annual “Sniffies Download” ...

One night this past February, over drinks and moody bar lighting, Eric Green and his friends were swapping stories of their recent hookups when one mentioned they’d used the app Sniffies to have ...

As your cruising guide to Folsom Street Fair, Sniffies is debuting a new feature: Sniffies Event Campuses, an interactive, live map layer designed to help users explore large-scale queer events in ...

In the literature about cruising from the late twentieth century, what stands out is the physical choreography of it. David Wojnarowicz, in his 1991 memoir, “Close to the Knives,” describes walking ...

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Given that Sniffies actively encourages users to share naked and explicit pictures of themselves on the app, “Vanilla Mode” is a helpful tool for those who want to browse in public but don’t want ...