LinkedIn notifications allow you to stay up-to-date on activity happening across your network. Notifications inform you when someone views your profile, mentions you in a post, sends you a message, and more. However, sometimes LinkedIn notifications can stop working properly and fail to show up. There are a few potential reasons why this may happen.
You have notification settings disabled
The most likely reason your LinkedIn notifications aren’t showing up is because you have your notification settings disabled. LinkedIn allows you to customize your notifications and turn certain notification types on or off. For example, you can disable notifications about new connections, messages, feed interactions, and more. If you have disabled notifications for a particular type of activity, you simply won’t receive notifications when that activity occurs.
To check your notification settings on LinkedIn:
- Click on the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage and select Settings & Privacy.
- Click on Communications on the left side.
- Review the various notification toggles to ensure the types of notifications you want to receive are enabled.
Be sure to scroll down and check your settings for all notification categories, including mentions, messages, feeds, groups, and jobs. Toggle any notifications you want on.
How to enable LinkedIn notifications
If your desired notifications are disabled, simply click on the toggle switch next to that notification type to turn it on. You can enable notifications for:
- Profile views
- Connections
- Mentions and comments
- Messages
- Reactions to your posts
- Shares of your posts
- Feed post notifications from your connections
- Group notifications
- Job updates
Be sure to click Save at the bottom of the page after making any notification changes. Going forward, you should begin receiving notifications again for the types you have enabled.
You have certain accounts muted
Another possibility is that you have muted notifications from specific accounts. LinkedIn allows you to mute notifications from individual members as well as entire groups. Muted accounts will not trigger notifications for you, so if you have muted someone, you won’t get notified when they view your profile, mention you, message you, etc.
To see if you have muted accounts:
- Go to Settings & Privacy > Communications.
- Click Manage next to Muted accounts.
- Review the list to see if you have muted any accounts you still want to receive notifications from.
- Click the Unmute button next to any accounts you want to undo the mute settings for.
Unmuting accounts should allow their activity to trigger notifications for you again going forward.
How to unmute accounts on LinkedIn
You can unmute individual connections, groups, or companies by following these steps:
- Go to the Muted accounts page in your Settings.
- Locate the account you want to unmute.
- Click the Unmute button next to their name.
- Confirm you want to unmute them.
This will revoke the mute status for that account. Their notifications will be enabled again. Make sure to click Save after unmuting any accounts.
You have notifications paused
LinkedIn also gives you the ability to temporarily pause all notifications from the platform if you need a break. When you have notifications paused, you won’t get any type of notification from LinkedIn until you unpause them.
To see if pauses are enabled:
- Go to Settings & Privacy > Communications.
- Check if the Pause LinkedIn notifications toggle is ON.
If this toggle is enabled, your notifications will be paused. Toggle it OFF to resume notifications.
How to unpause LinkedIn notifications
You can start receiving LinkedIn notifications again after a pause by:
- Going to Communications settings.
- Locating the Pause LinkedIn notifications toggle.
- Flipping the toggle to the OFF position.
- Clicking Save.
This will immediately unpause your notifications and you’ll start getting notified of LinkedIn activity again. Use this feature if you just need a temporary break from notifications.
You have email notifications disabled
While you can view some LinkedIn notifications within the LinkedIn platform itself, many notification types are sent to your email inbox. This includes things like profile view alerts, assignment notifications, and messages. If you have disabled email notifications entirely, these types of notifications won’t reach your inbox.
To check your email notification settings:
- Go to Settings & Privacy > Communications.
- Scroll down to Email frequency for notifications.
- Confirm that the frequency is not set to “None.”
If your email frequency is disabled, you won’t get critical email notifications from LinkedIn. Choose a frequency like “Daily digest” or “Real-time” to have these types of notifications emailed to you again.
How to enable LinkedIn email notifications
You can start receiving email notifications from LinkedIn by:
- Going to the Email frequency section in Settings.
- Choosing a frequency like “Daily digest” or “Real-time.”
- Clicking Save at the bottom.
Once enabled, LinkedIn will resume sending you notification emails according to the frequency you select.
You have email from LinkedIn marked as spam
If your email provider has marked LinkedIn notification emails as spam, they may automatically be sent to your spam folder or blocked entirely. As a result, you won’t see important notifications in your main inbox.
Check your spam folder and see if emails from LinkedIn are in there. If so, you can mark LinkedIn as a safe sender in your email client to allow their emails through again. The steps to do this vary by email provider:
Email Provider | How to Mark as Safe Sender |
---|---|
Gmail | Open spam email from LinkedIn > Click Not Spam button |
Outlook | Open spam email > Right-click > Mark as Not Junk |
Yahoo | Open spam email > Click Not Spam button |
Marking a few LinkedIn emails as “not spam” should train your spam filter to allow their emails through going forward.
How to stop LinkedIn emails from going to spam
To prevent LinkedIn notification emails from erroneously going to spam, you can:
- Open any LinkedIn emails marked as spam.
- Look for a “Not Spam” or “Mark as Safe” button and click it.
- You may need to do this for a few emails to train the spam filter.
This teaches your email provider that LinkedIn emails are legitimate and should go to your inbox. Over time, LinkedIn emails should bypass the spam folder automatically.
There’s an issue with your LinkedIn account
In rare cases, a technical issue with your LinkedIn account itself may disrupt notifications. Things like an expired refresh token, corrupted cookie, or glitch during an account update can prevent notifications from working correctly.
If none of the other solutions have helped, try logging out and back into your LinkedIn account on the website. You can also try clearing your browser cookies and cache related to LinkedIn. This resets your account connection and forces LinkedIn to re-establish notifications.
As a last resort, you can reach out to LinkedIn customer support. Describe the notification issue you’re experiencing. They may be able to detect and resolve any account-level technical problems.
How to reset your LinkedIn account connection
Resetting your account connection can force LinkedIn to re-register notifications properly. Try:
- Logging completely out of LinkedIn.
- Clearing LinkedIn cookies and cache in your browser settings.
- Closing and reopening your browser.
- Logging back into LinkedIn.
This refresh clears up any corrupted tokens or glitches with a clean slate. You may then start receiving notifications as expected.
You have an ad blocker enabled
Browser ad blockers and extensions like Adblock Plus can sometimes interfere with LinkedIn functionality, including notifications. Ad blockers may block or alter notification-related assets that need to load from LinkedIn’s servers.
Try adding LinkedIn.com to your ad blocker’s whitelist to allow notifications to function properly. You can also try completely disabling your ad blocker temporarily to see if that fixes the issue.
How to whitelist LinkedIn in your ad blocker
Most ad blockers allow you to add exceptions for specific websites. To whitelist LinkedIn:
- Open your ad blocker settings, often via a toolbar icon.
- Look for a “Whitelisted Websites” or “Excluded Sites” option.
- Enter www.linkedin.com and click Add or Save.
This will stop your ad blocker from working on LinkedIn so that notifications aren’t disrupted.
LinkedIn is having platform issues
In rare cases, widespread technical issues on LinkedIn’s end may cause notifications to fail for many users. Problems like API outages, server downtime, or bugs related to a new feature can prevent notifications from working properly during the period of disruption.
Check LinkedIn’s system status page to see if they have reported any ongoing platform issues related to notifications or feed functionality. You can also search for reports of problems from other users on social media.
The best approach is to wait patiently for LinkedIn engineers to resolve the problem on their end, which is usually accomplished in a matter of hours or days. Notifications should automatically resume once the technical issue is fixed.
How to check for LinkedIn platform issues
To see if LinkedIn is having wider notification problems, you can:
- Visit LinkedIn’s system status page.
- Check their Twitter account.
- Google “LinkedIn notifications not working” to find reports.
This will confirm if the problem is on their end or something specific to your account. If it’s a system-wide issue, all you can do is wait for LinkedIn to fix it.
You need to reconnect third-party apps
If you use third-party apps in conjunction with LinkedIn, a connectivity issue could impact notifications. Apps like Sales Navigator rely on API connections to integrate tightly with LinkedIn.
If these connections expire or malfunction, the app may stop surfacing notifications. Open the app in question and look for options to reconnect, reauthenticate, or renew permissions to restore notification capabilities.
How to reconnect third-party apps to LinkedIn
If an integrated app like Sales Navigator or Buffer stops showing LinkedIn notifications, try:
- Opening the app’s settings.
- Locating the LinkedIn connection or permissions.
- Renewing, reconnecting, or reauthorizing LinkedIn access.
This refreshes the API access that enables notification features. Follow any on-screen steps to complete the reconnection process.
Conclusion
LinkedIn notifications not appearing can be frustrating, but the issue typically has one of these common causes. Go through each solution methodically until your notifications start working again:
- Verify notification settings are enabled for the types you want.
- Check for any muted accounts and unmute them.
- Toggle off notification pauses if they are enabled.
- Make sure email notifications are allowed.
- Check spam folders for misfiled emails.
- Log out and back into LinkedIn to reset.
- Whitelist LinkedIn in ad blockers.
- Retry connecting third-party apps.
With a mix of notification configuration adjustments and account troubleshooting, you should once again see timely alerts and updates from LinkedIn.