LinkedIn Settings ​
WARNING
If you are actively searching for a job on LinkedIn, these settings will make your search more difficult. We recommend that you change them to suit your own preferences.
Account Preferences ​
Profile information ​
- Try to limit the information you provide, and avoid filling in fields that recruiters won't be interested in
General preferences ​
- Autoplay videos
- Autoplay videos in your feed: Off
- Feed preferences
- Turn on: Most recent posts
Syncing options ​
- Sync calendar
- Calendar
- Remove all -> Continue
- Calendar
- Sync contacts
- Contacts
- Remove all -> Continue
- Contacts
Partners & services ​
- Microsoft
- Remove all Microsoft accounts from your profile
Sign in & security ​
Account access ​
- Phone numbers
- Remove all phone numbers added to your profile
- Where you're signed in
- Remove all inactive sessions from your profile
- Devices that remember your password
- Remove all devices from your profile
- Two-step verification
Visibility ​
Visibility of your profile & network ​
- Profile viewing options
- Turn on: Private mode
- Page visit visibility
- Allow orginisations to see when you visit their LinkedIn Page: Off
- Who can see or downloads your email address
- Turn on: Only visible to me
- Allow connection to export emails: Off
- Connections
- Connection visibility: Off
- Who can see members you follow
- Turn on: Only visible to me
- Who can see your last name
- Turn on: Example N.
- Representing your organisations and interests
- Profile information on content: Off
- Page owners exporting your data
- Allow page owners to export your data: Off
- Profile discovery and visibility off LinkedIn
- Profile visibility outside LinkedIn: Off
- Profile discovery using email address
- Turn on: 1st degree connections
- Profile discovery using phone number
- Turn on: Nobody
Visibility of your LinkedIn activity ​
- Manage active status
- Turn on: No one
- Share profile updates with your network
- Share key profile updates: Off
- Notify connections when you're in the news
- Notify network if mentioned in news: Off
- Mentions or Tags
- Allow mentions: Off
- Followers
- Turn on: Your connections
Data privacy ​
How LinkedIn uses your data ​
- Manage cookie preferences
- Cookies: Off
- Search history
- Clear search history
- Personal demographic information
- Fill in as little information as possible
- Social, economic, and workplace research
- Use data for research: Off
Who can reach you ​
- Invitations to connect
- Turn on: Only people who appear in your "Imported Contacts" list
- Invitations from your network
- Allow page invitations: Off
- Allow event invitations: Off
- Allow newsletter invitations: Off
- Messages
- Message requests: Off
- InMail messages: Off
- Research invites
- Research invitations: Off
Messaging experience ​
- Focused Inbox
- Use Focused Inbox: Off
- Read receipts and typing indicators
- When messaging a connection who has it enabled, both of you will be able to see when each other is typing and when the message is read: Off
- Messaging suggestions
- Messaging suggestions: Off
- Message nudges
- Message nudges: Off
- Automated detection of harmful content
- Automated detection of harmful content: Off
Job seeking preferences ​
- Job application settings
- Save resumes and application data: Off
- Yes, delete
- Save resumes and application data: Off
- Share your profile when you click Apply for a job
- Share profile with job poster: Off
- Signal your interests to recruiters at companies you've created job alerts for
- Signal interest to recruiters: Off
- Stored job applicant accounts
- Remove all job applicant accounts from your profile
- Personalising your job experience
- Use your data to recommend jobs: Off
Other applications ​
- Permitted services
- Remove all services from your profile
- Microsoft Word
- Show work experience in Word: Off
Advertising data ​
Advertising preferences ​
- Profile data for personalising ads
- Profile data on ads: Off
- Interests and traits
- Interests and traits: Off
Data collected on LinkedIn ​
- Connections
- Use connections data: Off
- Location
- Use postal code and city location data: Off
- Demographics
- Use your age for ads: Off
- Use your gender for ads: Off
- Companies you follow
- Use followed companies data: Off
- Groups
- Use groups data: Off
- Education
- Turn everything off
- Job Information
- Turn both off
- Employer
- Turn both off
Third-party data ​
- Audience insights for websites you visit
- Use visited websites data: Off
- Ads outside of LinkedIn
- Ads outside of LinkedIn: Off
- Interactions with businesses
- Use data you've given to businesses: Off
- Ad-related actions
- Use your data for ad insight: Off
Notifications ​
Notifications you receive ​
- Searching for a job
- Job recommendations
- Everything off
- Skill Assessment recommendations
- Everything off
- Job recommendations
- Hiring someone
- Candidate recommendations
- Everything off
- Candidate recommendations
- Connecting with others
- New connection recommendations
- Everything off
- New follow recommendations
- Everything off
- New connection recommendations
- Posting and commenting
- Newsletters
- Everything off
- Suggested posts
- Everything off
- Newsletters
- Groups
- Group recommendations
- Everything off
- Group recommendations
- Attending events
- Recommendations
- Everything off
- Recommendations
- News and reports
- Custom news for you
- Everything off
- Suggested conversations for you
- Everything off
- Custom news for you
- Updating your profile
- Profile recommendations
- Everything off
- Tips and offers for using LinkedIn
- Everything off
- Profile recommendations