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LinkedIn notifications are messages sent to members about activity such as new messages, invitations, comments on their posts and newsletter editions.123 LinkedIn supports in-app, push and email notifications, and members can select notification types by category in Settings & Privacy.14 LinkedIn research describes delivery decisions made in near real time and the need to balance immediate interaction, long-term engagement and satisfaction.56 In July 2026, LinkedIn's Pressroom explained that invited Collaborative Post contributors receive a notification to review and accept if they want to be listed as collaborators.7 For creators, newsletter notifications help drive views by alerting subscribers to newly published editions.2
Notification channels
LinkedIn's Help Center says a member with several channels enabled should not get an email for a notification already received in-app or by push.4 A Microsoft patent also describes text messages and WhatsApp messages as possible notification channels.3 The Help Center adds that some feed updates arrive as push notifications or emails, and that members control these through their email settings and push notification settings.8
Activity that triggers notifications
For newsletters, push, in-app and email notifications go to all subscribers after each edition is published, subject to the channel-duplication rule.24 A notification inviting a person to subscribe is also sent automatically when they follow a member or page that has a newsletter.2 Job recommendations also arrive through notifications, which LinkedIn research describes as a shared channel for updates across content areas.69
Settings members use to control notifications
Members can adjust this notification experience through Settings & Privacy, reached by clicking their profile picture.1 They then select Notifications in the menu on the left.1 Under Notifications you receive, a member clicks a category and selects the type of notification wanted for each option in it.1
Research and patent proposals for notification selection and delivery
From LinkedIn's research and patents, which may not describe how LinkedIn works today
For content selection, a June 2025 LinkedIn research paper says combining information from multiple content areas can help notification systems send the right content to the right member.6 For delivery, a September 2025 LinkedIn research paper describes a system that makes notification delivery decisions in near real time.5 A January 2026 Microsoft patent says a good notification service sends interesting notifications at the right time so members are likely to respond.3 On volume, a Microsoft patent from June 2020 describes finding the smallest number of messages that keeps members active while staying below a threshold of complaints.10 For creators, a Microsoft patent from April 2024 describes using a creator's responses to viewer feedback, such as likes, to improve the relevance of content notifications.11
See also
References
- 1Turn email and mobile notifications on and off
- 2LinkedIn Newsletters
- 4Newsletters on LinkedIn FAQ
- 7Introducing Collaborative Posts, Now Available to Members and Company Pages on LinkedIn
- 8Best practices to customize what you see on your LinkedIn feed
- 9LinkedIn relevance - Optimizing the member experience
LinkedIn research and patents
- 3Notification management and channel selection
- 5Generative Sequential Notification Optimization via Multi-Objective Decision Transformers
- 6Large Scalable Cross-Domain Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Notification at LinkedIn
- 10Active user message diet
- 11Leveraging affinity between content creator and viewer to improve creator retention