LinkedIn sends way too many emails. Here's how to fix it.
By default, LinkedIn emails you about everything. Someone viewed your profile. Someone you don't know posted something. A job you don't care about was posted in a city you don't live in. A connection celebrated a work anniversary.
Most of these emails are noise. Let's turn them off.
The fast way: turn off (almost) everything
If you want to stop the flood immediately:
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Go to LinkedIn Settings (click your profile photo, then "Settings & Privacy").
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Click "Communications" in the left sidebar.
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Click "Email."
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You'll see a long list of email notification categories.
From here, you can turn off each category individually. The main categories are:
Conversations. Emails about new messages and replies. Keep this on if you want to know when someone DMs you. Turn it off if you check LinkedIn regularly anyway.
Profiles and connections. Emails about connection requests, profile views, and people you may know. Most of these are safe to turn off.
Jobs. Job alerts, application updates, and recruiter activity. Keep if you're job hunting. Turn off if you're not.
News and articles. LinkedIn's newsletter and content recommendations. Turn this off. You don't need LinkedIn curating articles for your inbox.
Notifications from your network. Work anniversaries, birthday reminders, job changes. This is the biggest source of noise. Turn it off unless you genuinely want to congratulate every connection on their 3-year work anniversary.
Marketing and advertising. LinkedIn promoting its own products (Premium, Learning, etc.). Turn this off immediately.
The selective approach: keep only what matters
If turning everything off feels too aggressive, here's what I'd recommend keeping:
Keep on: Direct messages (so you don't miss real conversations), connection requests (so you can review who wants to connect), and mentions (so you know when someone tags you).
Turn off everything else. Profile views, network updates, job suggestions, news digests, marketing emails, group activity, event suggestions. All noise.
This cuts your LinkedIn emails by 80 to 90% while keeping the ones that actually require your attention.
How to unsubscribe from LinkedIn emails directly
Every LinkedIn email has an "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom. Clicking it takes you directly to the settings page for that specific email type. This is the fastest way to turn off a specific type of email that's bothering you.
Still getting emails after unsubscribing?
Three common reasons the flood doesn't stop immediately:
Changes take a few days to apply. LinkedIn says email preference changes can take up to a week to fully propagate. Emails that were already queued will still arrive.
You turned off one category, not all of them. LinkedIn splits emails across dozens of toggles. Unsubscribing from job alerts does nothing about network updates or marketing. Go through the full list in Settings > Communications > Email once, it's five minutes well spent.
LinkedIn added a new email type. New features regularly ship with their own notifications, enabled by default. If a new kind of email shows up months after your cleanup, use its unsubscribe link to kill that specific category.
The nuclear option: filter them in your inbox
If you want LinkedIn out of your inbox today without touching LinkedIn settings, filter at the email level. In Gmail: search from:linkedin.com, click "Create filter", and choose "Skip the inbox" (archive) or apply a "LinkedIn" label. Outlook and Apple Mail have equivalent rules.
This works instantly and catches everything, including future email types. The downside: real messages and connection requests get filtered too, so check the folder occasionally, or combine the filter with the selective approach above and only filter the noise senders like jobs-noreply@linkedin.com and messages-noreply@linkedin.com.
Don't forget push notifications too
While you're in Settings, also check:
Push notifications (under Communications > Push). LinkedIn sends mobile notifications for similar things. Apply the same logic: keep messages and mentions, turn off everything else.
In-app notifications. These are the red notification badges inside LinkedIn. You can't fully control these, but reducing your email and push notifications makes the platform less demanding of your attention overall.
Why this matters more than you think
Every LinkedIn notification pulls you back to the platform. That's by design. LinkedIn wants you to open the app, scroll the feed, and spend time on platform. The emails, the push notifications, the red badges: they're all engagement hooks.
By turning off unnecessary notifications, you take back control of when you use LinkedIn instead of letting LinkedIn decide for you.
Pair it with a focused feed
Once you've silenced the noise from notifications, the next step is silencing the noise from the feed itself. MyFeedIn lets you create custom feeds of only the people you care about. No algorithm, no suggested posts, no distractions.
Combine quiet notifications with a focused feed, and LinkedIn becomes a 10-minute daily tool instead of an all-day distraction.
Go fix your email settings now. It takes 2 minutes and your inbox will thank you.