Skip to content

Cover

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
  • Sync contacts
    • Contacts
      • Remove all -> Continue

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
  • 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
  • Hiring someone
    • Candidate recommendations
      • Everything off
  • Connecting with others
    • New connection recommendations
      • Everything off
    • New follow recommendations
      • Everything off
  • Posting and commenting
    • Newsletters
      • Everything off
    • Suggested posts
      • Everything off
  • Groups
    • Group recommendations
      • Everything off
  • Attending events
    • Recommendations
      • Everything off
  • News and reports
    • Custom news for you
      • Everything off
    • Suggested conversations for you
      • Everything off
  • Updating your profile
    • Profile recommendations
      • Everything off
    • Tips and offers for using LinkedIn
      • Everything off