How To Deactivate LinkedIn Account
Closing your LinkedIn account means permanently deleting your profile and removing access to all your LinkedIn information from LinkedIn site. If you have a Premium account, you can cancel the Premium access, but still keep your free Basic account to retain your profile, connections, and other information.
- Click the Me icon at top of your LinkedIn homepage.
- Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown.
- Under Account management section of the Account preferences section, click Change next to Close account
- Check the reason for closing your account and click Next.
- Enter your account password and click Close account.
- You won’t have access to your connections or any information you’ve added to your account.
- Your profile will no longer be visible on LinkedIn.
- Search engines like Yahoo!, Bing, and Google may still display your information temporarily due to the way they collect and update their search data.
- You’ll lose all recommendations and endorsements you’ve collected on your LinkedIn profile.
- You may want to download a copy of your data before you close your account with us.
- If you have a premium membership, own a LinkedIn group, or have a premium account license, you’ll have to resolve those accounts before being able to close your Basic account.
- Endorsements and recommendations
- Ignored or pending invitations
- Followings (Top Voices, Companies, etc.)
- Group memberships
Are you having trouble accessing the account you want to close?
iOS
- Tap your profile picture > Settings > Account preferences.
- Tap Close account under Account management.
- Tap Continue to proceed with closing your account.
- Tap the reason for closing your account and tap Next.
- Enter your account password and tap Done.
Android
- Tap your profile picture > Settings > Account preferences.
- Tap Close account under Account management.
- Tap Continue to proceed with closing your account.
- Tap the reason for closing your account and tap Next.
- Enter your account password and tap Done.
Mobile Browser
- Tap the Profile icon in the navigation bar.
- Tap the Settings icon in the top right corner of your profile.
- Tap Close account under Account management.
- Tap Continue to proceed with closing your account.
- Tap the reason for closing your account and tap Next.
- Enter your account password and tapDone.
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