How To Delete Your LinkedIn Account: Closing your account deletes your profile permanently and removes access to all of your LinkedIn information from the LinkedIn site. Instead of deleting your LinkedIn account, You can cancel your Premium account while keeping your free Basic Account to keep your profile, connections, and other information.
Lately, we have seen lots of incidents of LinkedIn hacking. Users’ data are being posted publicly on the internet. It only takes a hacker with your basic information and a little hacking know-how to access your LinkedIn password. Whether you are one of the unlucky few whose account has been compromised, are tired of LinkedIn email on your contacts, or want to delete your account, you’ll be glad to know that it’s possible to delete your LinkedIn account and remove yourself from the professional social network altogether.
There are a variety of reasons why you’d want to delete your LinkedIn account. This includes any accounts you may have created in the past and no longer need and updating your current information from going dark to want to change your career or life completely. Although most social media platforms attempt to cling to you like a terrier to a ball, LinkedIn is different. You can pause or uninstall your account at any time.
How To Delete Your LinkedIn Account via Browser
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Are you searching for a way to delete your LinkedIn account using a browser? Many users prefer to do this type of thing in a desktop browser, so we’ll begin there. If you have access to a computer, proceed as follows:
- Sign in to your LinkedIn account
- Go to your profile page
- Click on me icon, which is at the top of your profile page
- Click on settings and privacy from the dropdown menu
- On the settings page, click the account Preference section
- Click on account management
- Click on change which is right next to close account
- Chose a reason for you closing your account
- Then click on next
- Enter your password and click on close account
How To Delete Your LinkedIn Account On iPhone
When you own an iPhone and trying to delete your LinkedIn account on your iPhone, you know that it may not get deleted completely. So here I walk you through how to do it properly on your iPhone;
Go to LinkedIn app on your iOS device
- Log into your account
- Tap on your profile picture
- Tap on settings and privacy
- Tap on account preferences
- Tap on continue to proceed
- Select the reason for closing your account on LinkedIn
- Tap on next to proceed
- Type in your LinkedIn password and tap on done.
How To Delete Your LinkedIn Account On Android
Do you want to delete your LinkedIn account on your android device, I will show you some step by step guide of deleting your LinkedIn account from within the Android mobile application;
- Go to LinkedIn app on your device
- Log into your account
- Tap on your profile picture
- Tap on settings and tap on account preference
- Then tap on close account, which is under the account management
- Now tap on continue to proceed
- Chose the reason for closing your LinkedIn account
- Tap on next to proceed
- Enter your LinkedIn password
- Then tap on done to end process
How To Reopen Your LinkedIn Account
LinkedIn has stated that If your account has been closed for less than 14 days, they can usually reopen it. But if they are unable to reopen your LinkedIn account, it means that your account has been closed for more than 14 days. So if it is still within the range of 14 days, then you can reopen it again, but you would not be able to recover the following
- Group members
- Your influencers, companies, etc
- Your endorsement and recommendations.
To Reopen Your LinkedIn Account Here’s What You Should Do;
- Go to the LinkedIn sign-in page
- Enter the default email address you used in opening your LinkedIn account
- Enter the password and click on sign in
- Note you can also click on the link which was sent to you in the original closure. If the is no longer active, you will be redirected
- Click on reactivate to start the process
- You will receive a confirmation email if you would like to reopen your account
- Then check your email and click on the confirmation to reactivate your account.
- Once you have click on the confirmation link, your LinkedIn account will be reactivated.
Frequent Question Asked
What happens if I Close my LinkedIn Account
- You will not have access to your connections or any information you’ve added to your account.
- Your profile will no longer be visible on LinkedIn.
- You’ll lose all recommendations and endorsements you’ve collected on your LinkedIn profile.
- Those that have 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.
- Because of the way search engines like Yahoo!, Bing and Google collect and update their search data, your information may still be displayed temporarily.
Can I Temporally Deactivate my Account?
Yes, of course, follow the same procedure to delete your account; when you get to account management, select hibernate account, which temporarily deactivates your account instead of deleting your account. The hibernate helps you to remove your profile and information so that other users will not see it. When they visit your profile or attempt to send you a message, the only thing they will see is ‘A LinkedIn member.’
If I Delete my LinkedIn Account, can I Recover any Information?
No After 14 days. If you deleted your account and believe you have lost important information or would like to reinstate it, you will be unable to do so after the first 14 days.