What’s more annoying than finding five LinkedIn alerts about birthdays, work anniversaries, and people you barely know? LinkedIn is useful, but those emails and phone buzzes get old fast.
You can cut the clutter without missing recruiter messages, job updates, or connection requests. These steps cover the web, Windows, macOS, iPhone, and Android.
What Are LinkedIn Notifications?
LinkedIn notifications tell you about activity tied to your account. They can appear in LinkedIn, pop up on your phone, or reach your email inbox.
Each delivery channel works on its own:
- In-app notifications: Appear under the Notifications tab in LinkedIn.
- Push notifications: Pop up on your phone or tablet.
- Email notifications: Go to your main LinkedIn email address.
- Page notifications: Report activity for a LinkedIn Page you manage.
- Email frequency: Sets how often some email updates arrive.
That separation matters. Turning off push alerts won’t stop LinkedIn emails. Blocking LinkedIn in your phone settings won’t clear alerts from the website, either. Think of the controls as separate faucets. You need to adjust each one.
These settings are available to regular LinkedIn members. You don’t need LinkedIn Premium.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have:
- A LinkedIn account you can sign in to
- A current web browser for Windows, macOS, or the web steps
- The LinkedIn mobile app for the iOS or Android steps
- Access to your phone’s system settings
- About 10 minutes to check your notification categories
- A rough idea of which alerts you want to keep
LinkedIn sometimes changes category names, and accounts may show different options. If a label differs, look for the closest match.
Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Decide Which Alerts Matter
Before touching any switches, make a quick keep-or-mute plan. Otherwise, you may switch off everything in frustration and miss something useful. It’s like cleaning a junk drawer with a trash bag.
A sensible setup looks like this:
- Keep: Direct messages, connection requests, security notices, and urgent job activity.
- Consider keeping: Comments on your posts, mentions, event reminders, and useful LinkedIn Page activity.
- Usually mute or limit: Birthdays, work anniversaries, network updates, suggested connections, and general activity.
- Job seekers: Keep messages, useful job suggestions, application updates, interview activity, and job alerts.
- Page managers: Keep Page messages, reviews, service requests, and key admin activity.
Expected result: You have a short list of alerts that need push or email delivery. Everything else can stay in LinkedIn or be switched off.
Step 2: Open LinkedIn on Windows
You don’t need a separate LinkedIn desktop program. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or another current browser works fine.
- Open your browser.
- Enter this address in the address bar:
https://www.linkedin.com/
- Sign in to your LinkedIn account.
- Check that the LinkedIn home feed appears.
You can also press Windows key + R, enter this command, and select OK:
https://www.linkedin.com/
Expected result: LinkedIn opens in your browser and shows the main menu bar.
Step 3: Open LinkedIn on macOS
The same web controls work on a Mac, so there’s no special setup to wrestle with.
- Open Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or your preferred browser.
- Go to
https://www.linkedin.com/. - Sign in and wait for the home feed to load.
If you prefer Spotlight, press Command + Space, type this address, and press Return:
https://www.linkedin.com/
Expected result: You see LinkedIn’s normal menu bar at the top.
Step 4: Find LinkedIn Notification Settings on the Web
These steps work in a desktop browser on Windows and macOS.
- Select the Me icon or your profile picture in the top menu.
- Select Settings & Privacy.
- Select Notifications from the menu on the left.
- Find Notifications you receive.
You should see groups for jobs, connections, messages, posts, Pages, network news, and account activity. Your list may differ.
Expected result: The Notifications page shows groups you can open and change.
Step 5: Adjust In-App, Push, and Email Delivery Separately
- Under Notifications you receive, select a group such as jobs, connections, or posting activity.
- Select one notification type.
- Check the delivery controls:
- In-app notifications
- Push notifications
- Turn each channel on or off to match your plan.
- If you see an email frequency option, pick the lowest rate that works for you.
- Return to the group list and repeat these steps for other alerts.
LinkedIn saves each change on its own. There’s usually no Save button, which feels odd when you’re waiting for proof.
You can turn off Push notifications and leave In-app notifications on. I think that’s the best balance for routine updates. They’ll wait in LinkedIn without buzzing your phone every few minutes.
Expected result: Useful alerts arrive where you want them. Less useful updates stop getting in your way.
Step 6: Stop One Recurring Notification Quickly
You don’t always need the full settings menu. When one alert keeps returning like an unwanted houseguest, handle it right from the list.
- Open LinkedIn’s Notifications tab.
- Find an example of the alert you dislike.
- Select the three-dot More icon beside it.
- Choose Turn off, Change notification preferences, or the closest option.
- Confirm the change if LinkedIn asks.
Delete removes only that item from your notification list. Similar alerts can still return. Turn off or Change notification preferences changes how LinkedIn handles that alert type.
Expected result: Future alerts of that type stop or use your new delivery settings.
Step 7: Configure Notifications in the iOS App
If you need the app, open the App Store and search for LinkedIn. Select the official app published by LinkedIn, then tap Get.
Set up your alerts:
- Open LinkedIn and sign in.
- Tap your profile picture.
- Tap Settings or Settings & Privacy.
- Tap Notifications.
- Open a group under Notifications you receive.
- Change the push, email, and in-app controls.
- Repeat for each group you want to change.
To stop one pesky alert, open the app’s Notifications tab. Tap the three-dot More icon beside it. Then choose Change notification preferences or Delete notification.
Expected result: The iPhone app uses the LinkedIn delivery settings you chose.
Step 8: Check LinkedIn’s iOS Permission
LinkedIn can’t show a push alert when iOS blocks the app. Both switches must work together (because one notification setting apparently wasn’t enough).
- Open the iPhone Settings app.
- Tap Notifications.
- Scroll down and tap LinkedIn.
- Turn on Allow Notifications if you want LinkedIn push alerts.
- Choose Lock Screen, Notification Center, and Banners as needed.
- Change Sounds and Badges if you want quieter alerts.
This screen affects push alerts only. It doesn’t stop LinkedIn emails or alerts shown inside the app.
Expected result: iOS allows the LinkedIn push alerts you picked in the app.
Step 9: Configure Notifications in the Android App
If you need the app, open the Google Play Store and search for LinkedIn. Select the official LinkedIn app, then tap Install.
Set up your alerts:
- Open LinkedIn and sign in.
- Tap your profile picture.
- Tap Settings or Settings & Privacy.
- Tap Notifications.
- Select a group under Notifications you receive.
- Change each delivery channel.
- Repeat for other groups.
You can also use the More menu beside an item in the app’s Notifications tab. From there, delete the item or change the settings for similar alerts.
Expected result: LinkedIn’s Android app sends only the alert types you picked.
Step 10: Check LinkedIn’s Android Permission
Android menu names vary by phone maker, but the path is usually close to this:
- Open Settings.
- Tap Apps, Apps & notifications, or Notifications.
- Select LinkedIn. You may need to tap See all apps first.
- Tap Notifications.
- Turn on the main switch if you want LinkedIn push alerts.
- Check the listed groups and allow the ones you need.
Phone makers love moving settings around (because apparently consistency would be too easy). If you can’t find LinkedIn, use the search box at the top of Settings and search for:
LinkedIn notifications
Expected result: Android lets LinkedIn show the push alerts you selected.
Step 11: Configure LinkedIn Page Notifications
Page managers get another set of alerts. They can pile up when a Page is busy, so check them on their own.
- On the LinkedIn website, select Me.
- Select Settings & Privacy.
- Select Notifications.
- Open Pages.
- Check Allow page notifications.
- Review each Page alert type. These may include invitations, messages, activity, insights, service projects, reviews, or sponsored requests.
- Keep urgent Page messages on. Move routine insights or activity to in-app delivery if that suits you.
Expected result: Page alerts reach the right places without every small update causing an interruption.
Step 12: Verify Your New Setup
Check your settings before calling the job done. One missed switch can keep noisy alerts dripping into your inbox.
- Return to Settings & Privacy > Notifications.
- Reopen the groups for messages, connections, jobs, and Pages.
- Check that each useful event has the right in-app, push, or email channel on.
- Make sure birthdays, work anniversaries, and other low-priority events don’t use unwanted channels.
- Check your phone’s notification permission one last time.
- Watch your alerts for a day or two. If one arrives in the wrong place, change that group.
Expected result: Useful alerts still reach you. Routine activity stays inside LinkedIn or disappears.
Configuration Recommendations
LinkedIn doesn’t have a documented switch that quiets everything at once. Checking each group takes longer, but you get much better control.
- Messages: Keep in-app and push alerts on. Keep email on only if you rarely open LinkedIn.
- Connection requests: Keep in-app alerts on. Push is useful, while email is optional.
- Job alerts: Keep useful jobs, application updates, and recruiter messages. Lower the job alert rate if LinkedIn gets too chatty.
- Network updates: Leave in-app alerts on if you enjoy them. Turn off push and email.
- Birthdays and work anniversaries: Turn off push and email unless these reminders truly help you.
- Posts and comments: Keep mentions and direct replies. Mute routine reactions if they make too much noise.
- Page activity: Keep messages, reviews, and service requests. Move general insights and routine activity to in-app alerts.
- Phone presentation: If alerts help but distract you, turn off sounds and banners. You can keep Notification Center alerts or badges on.
LinkedIn’s email controls work apart from your phone’s settings. If your inbox still looks like a notification dumping ground, check each noisy group’s Email control or frequency setting. An email filter can sort what’s left, but I’d start with LinkedIn’s own controls.
Tips and Troubleshooting
Problem: LinkedIn emails continue after push notifications are disabled
- Open LinkedIn on the web.
- Go to Me > Settings & Privacy > Notifications.
- Open the group that sends the email.
- Turn off Email or lower its frequency.
- Repeat for any other noisy group.
Push and email are separate channels. Turning off one does nothing to the other. That’s probably the biggest source of confusion here.
Problem: An important notification does not arrive
- Open LinkedIn’s Notifications settings.
- Check that the right event type is on.
- Check that Push notifications or Email is on for that event.
- Check the iOS or Android permission for LinkedIn.
- See if Focus, Do Not Disturb, or a battery-saving option is blocking alerts.
- Turn the affected LinkedIn setting off, wait a moment, and turn it back on.
- Restart the app and install any LinkedIn update.
That last restart is worth a try. Giving an app a quick rest fixes a surprising number of odd notification problems (and Windows users know this routine well).
Problem: Push alerts continue after one category was disabled
- Open Settings & Privacy > Notifications.
- Check related groups, not only the first one you changed.
- Turn off push delivery for each unwanted event.
- Use the More menu on the next alert to find its exact setting.
LinkedIn can put similar alerts in different groups. One stubborn alert may have its own switch hiding nearby.
Problem: Phone alerts stopped, but notifications still appear inside LinkedIn
That’s expected. Your phone’s permission controls push alerts only. Open LinkedIn’s settings and turn off In-app notifications for that alert type if the option appears.
Problem: The menus do not match these instructions exactly
Look for Notifications inside Settings or Settings & Privacy. Then open Notifications you receive. Some labels vary by account, device, and app design.
Keep a safety net: Leave useful alerts in the app when you turn off push and email. It’s like putting mail in a tray instead of tossing it out. You can check it when you have time.
Use Focus carefully: A good Focus or Do Not Disturb schedule can quiet LinkedIn after work. It can still allow urgent calls and messages. Keep in mind that Focus may delay an alert even when LinkedIn and your phone settings are correct.
Wrapping Up
| Step | Action | Applies To |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Choose the alerts worth keeping | All platforms |
| 2 | Open Settings & Privacy > Notifications | Web, Windows, macOS |
| 3 | Adjust in-app, push, and email separately | All platforms |
| 4 | Check system notification permission | iOS, Android |
| 5 | Verify messages, jobs, connections, and Page alerts | All platforms |
A good LinkedIn setup stays quiet without becoming useless. I’d keep routine updates inside LinkedIn. Save push alerts for messages, useful job activity, and connection requests.
You may need one more tweak after a day or two. That’s normal. Notification settings are more like tuning a radio than flipping one perfect switch.