Title: LinkedIn Privacy and Account Settings | TechBoomers
Headings: LinkedIn Settings
LinkedIn Settings
How to change LinkedIn settings
LinkedIn Account settings
Basics
Email addresses
Phone numbers
Change password
Language
Name, location, and industry
Where you're signed in
Feed preferences
Autoplay videos
Showing profile photos
Getting an archive of your data
Partners and third parties
Permitted services
Twitter settings
Subscriptions
Try Premium
Account
Closing your LinkedIn account
Merging LinkedIn accounts
LinkedIn Privacy settings
Profile privacy
Edit your public profile
Who can see your connections
Viewers of this profile also viewed
Sharing profile edits
Profile viewing options
Notifying connections when you're in the news
Who can see your last name
Blocking and hiding
Followers
Blocking
Unfollowed
Job seeking
Sharing your profile when you click apply
Let recruiters know you're open to opportunities
Data privacy and advertising
Suggesting you as a connection based on your email addresses
Suggesting you as a connection based on your phone number
Representing your organization
Profile visibility off LinkedIn
Advertising preferences
Security
Two-step verification
LinkedIn Communications settings
Basics
Email frequency
Who can send you invitations
Messages from members
Read receipts and typing indicators
Groups
Group invitations
Group notifications
LinkedIn messages
Participate in research
Partner InMail

Content: Click Done when finished. Autoplay videos
Choose if you want videos to play automatically in your LinkedIn feed
Showing profile photos
Choose to show or hide the profile photos of other LinkedIn users
Choose to see the photos of All LinkedIn members, your connections, your network, or no one
Getting an archive of your data
Download an archive of your LinkedIn activity, including account data, posts, connections, recommendations, messages, and more
Choose to get a fast file immediately, or a fast file plus all data, which takes up to 24 hours
Partners and third parties
Permitted services
View and manage the services you've authorized to connect with your LinkedIn account
Click Remove to disable permissions
Twitter settings
Manage your Twitter settings if you have connected Twitter to your LinkedIn account
Click Add your Twitter Account if you want to set up the connection
Subscriptions
Try Premium
You can try out LinkedIn Premium for free for 14 days (if you haven't already done so)
Account
Closing your LinkedIn account
Choose to delete or disable your LinkedIn account, which we can teach you about in detail here with this tutorial
Merging LinkedIn accounts
If you have more than one LinkedIn account, you can transfer your connections from one account to another, and then close one of the accounts
LinkedIn Privacy settings
Profile privacy
Edit your public profile
Be taken directly to your profile page to edit any aspect of it
Who can see your connections
Choose who can see your connections – either only you, or your connections
Viewers of this profile also viewed
Would you like your profile to display "Viewers of this profile also viewed" to other LinkedIn users? Sharing profile edits
Would you like your network to be aware when you make changes to your profile? Profile viewing options
Choose how you appear to other users when viewing their profiles on LinkedIn
Choose from: Your name and headline – Ex. " Kayleigh Fleury, Content Writer at TechBoomers.com" (with profile picture)
Private profile characteristics – Ex. " Content Writer at TechBoomers.com" (no profile picture)
Private mode – Ex. " Anonymous LinkedIn Member" (no profile picture)
Notifying connections when you're in the news
Choose to notify your connections if you're mentioned in the news
Who can see your last name
Choose to have your last name appear in full, or appear as just an initial
Ex. Kayleigh Fleury OR Kayleigh F.
Blocking and hiding
Followers
Choose if everyone on LinkedIn can follow your activity, or if only your connections can
Blocking
View the list of people you have blocked on LinkedIn
Unblock them, if you wish
Unfollowed
See the list of people you have Unfollowed on LinkedIn, and choose to refollow them here, if you wish
Job seeking
Sharing your profile when you click apply
Choose to share your LinkedIn profile when you apply for a job on LinkedIn
Let recruiters know you're open to opportunities
Share that you are open to new career opportunities so you can appear as a match for job openings at other companies
NOTE: LinkedIn won't share this information with your current company, however, your current employer may be able to see this, for example, if a job is posted at your company and you meet the requirements.