If you are having issues seeing your LinkedIn notifications, there are a few common reasons why they may not be appearing properly:
You have notification emails turned off
LinkedIn allows you to control whether you receive email notifications for various types of activity. If you have disabled email notifications in your Settings, you won’t receive emails alerting you to new notifications.
To check your notification settings on desktop:
- Go to your LinkedIn homepage and click on your profile icon in the top right
- Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown menu
- Click on Communications on the left side menu
- Under “Email preferences,” make sure the checkbox is checked for “Notifications” to receive email alerts
On mobile:
- Tap your profile icon in the top right
- Tap Settings
- Tap Communications
- Toggle on “Email notifications” to receive emails
Enabling notification emails is the best way to make sure you never miss an important update on LinkedIn.
Your notifications are marked as read
LinkedIn will automatically mark notifications as read after a period of time, even if you haven’t actually viewed them. This prevents your notifications tab from overflowing.
Notifications will be marked as read:
- After 2 weeks for shares, comments, likes, etc.
- After 4 weeks for new followers, profile views, etc.
So if you haven’t checked your notifications in a while, they may have been automatically archived. You can still view them under your notifications dropdown, but they won’t show an unread count.
You’ve muted conversations or connections
If you have muted certain conversations or connections in your feed preferences, you will no longer receive notifications from those people.
To check if you have muted conversations:
- Go to your LinkedIn feed
- Click on the gear icon in the top right
- Select “Feeds” and look under “Conversations” for any muted profiles
And to check muted connections:
- Go to your profile and select “Manage my network”
- Click “Muted accounts” to see any connections you have muted
Unmute conversations and connections you still want to hear from.
You have notifications turned off globally
You can disable notifications entirely in your global LinkedIn settings. This will prevent you receiving any notifications across LinkedIn.
To check your global notification settings on desktop:
- Go to your profile icon and select Settings & Privacy
- Click Notifications on the left side
- Make sure “Receive notifications” is toggled on
And on mobile:
- Tap your profile icon
- Tap Settings
- Tap Notifications
- Toggle “Receive notifications” on
Turning notifications back on will allow you to start receiving them again.
LinkedIn is having technical issues
Like any website or platform, LinkedIn can sometimes experience technical glitches on their end which affect notifications. There may be an outage or bug preventing notifications from coming through properly.
If you’ve verified your notification settings are enabled, but are still not seeing new notifications come in, it’s possible LinkedIn is having a system-wide issue.
Check LinkedIn’s help pages and Twitter account to see if they have reported any known notification problems. You can also try contacting LinkedIn’s customer support for assistance.
You’ve hit LinkedIn’s daily notification cap
To prevent notification overload, LinkedIn caps the number of notifications a user can receive per day. The current limit is 200 notifications per day.
If you are a highly active LinkedIn user and have hit this limit, you will not receive any additional notifications beyond the 200 until the next day.
The only way to increase the limit is to become a LinkedIn Premium subscriber, which raises the cap to 5,000.
How to troubleshoot missing LinkedIn notifications
If you are still not seeing expected notifications after checking the reasons above, here are some steps to troubleshoot further:
- Log out and back in – Sometimes simply logging out and back into your LinkedIn account can resolve glitches
- Try different web browsers – Test LinkedIn on browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari to see if notifications appear
- Clear cookies/cache – Removing cookies and cached data can eliminate bugs stopping notifications
- Update apps – Make sure your LinkedIn mobile app is updated to the latest version
- Check 3rd party apps – If you use any other apps with LinkedIn, they may have notification permissions issues
- Request support – Reach out to LinkedIn’s customer service if all else fails
How to see past LinkedIn notifications
Even if you’ve missed seeing notifications in real-time, you can still view your past notification activity on LinkedIn.
On desktop:
- Go to your Notifications tab (the flag icon)
- Click on the filter icon next to the search bar
- Select “Past” to see up to 60 days of previous notifications
On mobile:
- Tap your profile picture
- Tap the Notifications tab
- Tap “Past” at the top to view older notifications
This lets you check back to see any notifications you may have missed or been unable to see previously.
Conclusion
Not seeing expected LinkedIn notifications can be frustrating, but is usually caused by disabled settings, technical issues, or hitting notification limits. Check your notification settings, LinkedIn’s system status, and troubleshoot other potential issues to resolve missing notifications.
And if needed, you can still view past notifications for up to 60 days. Ensuring your LinkedIn notifications are working properly allows you to stay updated in real-time on all the activity that matters most.
Reason | Fix |
---|---|
Email notifications turned off | Enable email notifications in settings |
Notifications marked as read | Check notifications tab for archived updates |
Muted conversations/connections | Unmute relevant accounts |
Notifications turned off globally | Turn notifications on in account settings |
LinkedIn having issues | Check system status pages/contact support |
Hit daily notification limit | Become a Premium subscriber to increase limit |
Troubleshooting Tips
- Log out and back into LinkedIn
- Try different web browsers
- Clear cache and cookies
- Update LinkedIn mobile app
- Check permissions of 3rd party apps
- Contact LinkedIn support