 "Make Me Like You" was moderately successful after its release. In the United States, the single debuted and peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest debut of the week; alongside its debut on the Hot 100, it also peaked at number 12 on the Digital Songs component chart, where it sold over 56,000 digital copies. The following week, the song dropped to number 68 on the Hot 100, and dropped off the week after that. Following the release of This Is What the Truth Feels Like, "Make Me Like You" re-entered in the US at number 97. It lasted five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, before departing the charts at the bottom position of number 100 on April 16, 2016. Four days after its digital release, it was shopped to contemporary hit radio on February 16. Its radio adds prompted the track to enter the Adult Top 40, where it peaked at number 17, spending a total of 12 weeks on the charts. For the week ending May 7, 2016, "Make Me Like You" peaked at number 24 on the Adult Contemporary chart; however, it peaked at number 23 on the Mainstream Top 40, becoming the lowest peak in her career. Additionally, the song was streamed over 1.95 million times on Spotify, prompting it to debut at numbers fourteen and fifteen on the Spotify Viral 50 and Spotify Velocity charts, respectively.
