Does unfollowing someone on LinkedIn notify them? (and are you still connected?)

Will they know if you unfollow them on LinkedIn?

No. According to LinkedIn Help, members aren't notified when you unfollow them. No alert, no email, no line in their activity. That's true for connections and for people you follow without being connected.

They could still notice in two ways, and both take effort on their side:

• Their follower count drops by one. They can't tell who left.
• Your name disappears from their followers list (My Network > Manage my network > Following & followers > Followers). Someone would have to search that list for you specifically. On bigger accounts it doesn't even work: LinkedIn only shows the first 1,000 results.

The real way to get caught is later. LinkedIn does notify members when you start following them again. If you unfollow someone and change your mind a month later, they'll see that you followed them.

Are you still connected after unfollowing someone on LinkedIn?

Yes. Unfollowing and connecting are separate. When you unfollow a connection, LinkedIn keeps you connected and only hides their updates from your feed.

After you unfollow them
Their posts in your feed	Gone
Your connection	Stays
Messaging each other	Still possible
Your posts in their feed	Still there, they still follow you
Seeing each other's profiles	Unchanged
Notification sent	None

Unfollowing only works in one direction. If you also want to leave their feed, they'd have to unfollow you, and you can't do that for them.

How to unfollow someone on LinkedIn

You can do it from a post, from their profile, or from the list of people you follow.

From a post in your feed (fastest):

1. Click the More icon (three dots) at the top right of one of their posts.
2. Click Unfollow [name].

From their profile:

1. Open their profile.
2. Click More in the introduction section.
3. Select Unfollow.

From the list of people you follow:

1. Click My Network at the top of LinkedIn.
2. Open People I Follow (or Following & followers) under Manage my network.
3. Click Following under the person's name. The button switches back to Follow.

The app works the same way: tap the three dots on a post or on their profile, then Unfollow. For the list, tap My Network, Manage my network, then People I follow.

There's no confirmation step and no cool-down. One limit worth knowing if you follow a lot of people: LinkedIn caps follows at 5,000 people you aren't connected to.

How to see who you unfollowed on LinkedIn

LinkedIn keeps a list, it's just buried in the settings:

1. Click Me, then Settings & Privacy.
2. Open Account preferences.
3. Under Site preferences, click People you unfollowed.

In the app: tap your profile photo, Settings, Account preferences, then People you unfollowed.

Click Follow next to a name to bring their posts back into your feed. Keep in mind that this is the step that notifies them.

Can you see who unfollowed you?

Not really. LinkedIn doesn't send a notification when someone unfollows you and doesn't keep an "unfollowed you" list. All you have is the same two clues other people have about you: your follower count and your Followers tab, capped at 1,000 results.

Tools that promise to track unfollowers usually need your LinkedIn login or a scraper running on your account, which LinkedIn's User Agreement forbids. It's not worth the risk for a number that changes every day anyway.

Unfollow, remove a connection or block?

	Unfollow	Remove connection	Block
They're notified	No	No	No (except shared Recruiter accounts)
You stay connected	Yes	No	No
Their posts in your feed	No	Not documented	No
You can message each other	Yes	Only through InMail or an Open Profile	No
Endorsements and recommendations	Kept	Withdrawn for good	Removed
Undo	Follow again (they're notified)	New invitation	Unblock, then a new invitation

Removing a connection is also silent: LinkedIn Help confirms they aren't notified. It's more visible than an unfollow though. You're no longer 1st-degree connections, they leave your Contacts, and any recommendations or endorsements between you are withdrawn and don't come back if you reconnect. To do it, open their profile, click More, then Remove Connection, or use the More icon next to their name in your Connections list.

Blocking cuts profiles, posts and messages in both directions. It's for harassment or someone you need out of your LinkedIn life, and it has its own rules: what happens when you block someone on LinkedIn.

For a noisy feed, unfollowing is the right tool: silent, reversible, and the connection stays useful if you need it later.

Why unfollowing more people is worth it

Most people accept every invitation and never unfollow anyone, then wonder why their feed is full of irrelevant posts. A former colleague's weekly motivational quote, a recruiter's generic career tips, someone you met at a conference three years ago: each one takes a slot that could go to someone you actually learn from.

A simple rule: if someone's posts haven't been useful to you in the last 30 days, unfollow them. Nobody finds out, and you can follow them again if their content gets better. More on this in why your LinkedIn feed is full of irrelevant posts.

Choose who you read instead of who you remove

Unfollowing removes people one at a time, and LinkedIn's algorithm still fills the gaps with suggested posts, viral content and ads.

MyFeedIn's creator feeds work the other way around: you pick the people you want to read, group them into feeds by topic or goal, and read those instead. No one gets unfollowed, no one gets notified, and your LinkedIn feed stops deciding what you see.