As networking sites go, LinkedIn is a great site for promoting yourself, keeping up to date with your favorite companies, and creating and maintaining valuable professional relationships.
The bad news is that its exhaustive notifications can make the site and accompanying mobile app obnoxious to use.
Fortunately, the platform gives you tools to take advantage of the service without push notifications going off every time a former coworker has a birthday. Here’s how to manage your notifications on both the desktop and mobile version of LinkedIn…
How to Manage Your LinkedIn Notifications on Desktop
You can access the menu to adjust your account settings and privacy from any LinkedIn page. Just click on the dropdown menu labeled Me (which appears under your profile picture at the top of your screen).
Then, select Settings & Privacy under the Account header about halfway down the menu.
This brings you to a new page, with a navigation menu on the left side of the screen. This navigation menu controls just about everything about your profile, including how LinkedIn uses your data.
For right now, however, select How you get notifications under the Communications header.
More menus at the top of this page control the things that LinkedIn notifies you about and how you receive those notifications.
All of these categories, On LinkedIn, Email, and Push open to nearly identical pages micromanaging the circumstances under which you receive notifications. If you don’t want a notification, an email, and a phone buzz every time someone views your profile, this is how you turn that off.
If you like the things that LinkedIn notifies you about but you do not care to get an email or mobile alert for each of those notifications, leave all of the settings toggled to On in the On LinkedIn menu (seen above).
But make sure to toggle these same settings to Off in the other two menus. This way you still get the notices when you visit LinkedIn but they will not bother you in other contexts.
Remember that customizing your LinkedIn feed can also help you get more out of the platform.
How to Manage Your LinkedIn Notifications on Mobile
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for (var i = 0; i While you can manage push notifications on your mobile devices from LinkedIn’s desktop website, you can also do this on the LinkedIn app.
To do this, select your profile picture in the upper left just like in the desktop version. From the new menu, select Settings and then Communications.
Then head on over to the How you get notifications menu (just like you would on the desktop version).
Once again, in this menu, you can toggle both the notification methods (LinkedIn, Email, Push), as well as the notification events (birthdays, invites, etc).
LinkedIn Does Not Have to Be Loud
LinkedIn is a great service, but its relentless notifications can make it more distracting than productive. The good news is that it is easy to quiet those notifications while still getting the most out of the platform.
That is, if you know where to look.
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