If you are receiving LinkedIn notifications in your Gmail inbox and want to stop them, there are a few simple steps you can take. LinkedIn allows users to control which types of notifications they receive and where those notifications are sent. With a few adjustments in your LinkedIn account settings, you can prevent LinkedIn notifications from cluttering up your Gmail inbox.
Why Am I Getting LinkedIn Notifications in Gmail?
LinkedIn automatically sends certain notifications to your email inbox by default. These can include notifications about connection requests, messages, mentions, reactions to your posts, and more. Since many LinkedIn members connect their LinkedIn account to their primary email address, these notifications end up going to their Gmail (or other main email account).
So if you are seeing LinkedIn notifications show up in Gmail, it is because your LinkedIn account is set to receive those notifications and send them to the email you have associated with your LinkedIn profile. The good news is you can easily adjust these settings.
How to Stop LinkedIn Notifications from Going to Gmail
To prevent LinkedIn notifications from going to your Gmail inbox, follow these steps:
- Go to your LinkedIn account settings.
- Under “Notifications”, click “Email notifications”.
- Review the various notification options and uncheck any types of LinkedIn notifications you don’t want sent to your email inbox.
- Scroll down and make sure your primary email is selected under “Send email notifications to”.
- Click “Turn off” to disable email notifications entirely, if desired.
- Click “Save changes” at the bottom of the page.
Following these steps will adjust your LinkedIn notification settings so that any unchecked notification types will no longer be sent to your Gmail or other email account. You can toggle on or off specific notification types based on your preferences.
Key Notification Settings to Adjust
Here are some of the key LinkedIn email notification settings you may want to adjust:
- Mentions & reactions: Disable if you don’t want emails when someone mentions you or reacts to your post.
- Comments: Turn off to avoid comment notification emails.
- Connection requests: Disable if you don’t want notifications for new connection requests.
- Messages: Uncheck this to stop LinkedIn message emails.
- Groups: Adjust group notification settings as desired.
- Work anniversaries: Turn off to stop emails about your connections’ work anniversaries.
- Profile updates: Disable if you don’t want notifications when someone updates their profile.
Take some time to carefully review each notification option and disable any types that are cluttering your Gmail. That should prevent most LinkedIn notifications from ending up in your inbox.
Additional Ways to Manage LinkedIn Notifications
In addition to adjusting your main LinkedIn notification settings, here are some other ways to manage your notifications:
Update Individual Connection Settings
You can control notifications from specific connections. Go to their profile and under “Stay in touch”, adjust options like “Receive updates, messages, and profile changes” as desired.
Manage Group Notifications
For groups you’ve joined, go to the group page and click “Manage notifications” to customize which types of group notifications you want to receive.
Adjust Notification Frequency
Under account settings, go to “Communications” and adjust how often you receive digest emails for notifications. Choose “Daily” or “Weekly” digests instead of “Immediately” to condense notifications.
Mute Conversations
In conversations, use the mute button to stop receiving notifications from specific message threads. You can also mute all notifications from a connection.
Troubleshooting LinkedIn Notification Issues
If you’ve updated your notification settings but are still receiving LinkedIn emails to your Gmail account, here are some steps to troubleshoot:
- Confirm the correct email address is set under notification settings. Double check it matches the email receiving the notifications.
- Log out of LinkedIn completely, then log back in. This will force a refresh of your account settings.
- Clear your browser cookies and cache. Outdated cookies may override your new settings.
- Wait 48 hours. It can take some time for notification changes to fully propagate.
- Check for any LinkedIn emails labeled “This message was sent to [email]”. These indicate an old email is still associated with your account. Update your LinkedIn profile email if needed.
- As a last resort, change your LinkedIn password. This will logout all devices and completely reset notification connections.
Use LinkedIn’s “Unsubscribe” Option
Every notification email from LinkedIn contains an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom. Use this to unsubscribe your email address from future emails of that specific type.
However, be aware this does not change your main notification settings. It only opts out of emails from the particular notification that was sent. So you’ll need to still update your overall preferences.
Route LinkedIn Emails to Your Social or Promotions Tab
If you don’t want to fully disable LinkedIn emails but want to keep them out of your Gmail inbox, you can route them to the “Social” or “Promotions” tabs instead.
On desktop, drag any LinkedIn email to the tab you want future emails to go to. On mobile, press and hold on a LinkedIn email, then choose “Move to” or “Filter messages like these”.
This will send future LinkedIn notifications directly to that tab, keeping your primary inbox uncluttered.
Use Gmail Filters to Automatically Move LinkedIn Emails
You can create filters in Gmail to automatically move LinkedIn notification emails out of your inbox.
On desktop, click the filter icon while viewing a LinkedIn email. Click “Create filter” and choose “Skip the Inbox” to auto-sort future LinkedIn emails. You can also add other criteria like “from: @linkedin.com”.
On mobile, tap the overflow menu while viewing a LinkedIn email. Choose “Filter messages like these” then select “Skip Inbox” and any other filter criteria you want.
Gmail filters provide a handy way to keep LinkedIn emails automatically sorted away from your primary inbox.
Best Practices for Managing LinkedIn Notifications
Here are some recommended tips for effectively managing LinkedIn notifications:
- Check notification settings regularly and disable anything not useful.
- Consolidate notifications into a weekly digest email to reduce volume.
- Mute conversations once resolved so they stop sending alerts.
- Unfollow connections that send too many updates.
- Disable notifications from groups that aren’t relevant.
- Route LinkedIn emails to your Social or Promotions tab.
- Set up filters to automatically skip your inbox and sort LinkedIn emails.
Following these best practices will help you keep LinkedIn notifications under control and out of your primary Gmail inbox, while still allowing you to stay updated on the most important notifications.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did my LinkedIn notifications suddenly start going to Gmail?
This usually happens if you recently changed the primary email address on your LinkedIn account. LinkedIn automatically sends notifications to your profile’s associated email, so if you changed it to a Gmail address, your notifications will now go there.
Do I need to have email notifications enabled to use LinkedIn?
No, you can fully disable email notifications in your settings and still use LinkedIn. You just won’t receive alerts about activity on your posts or profile – you’ll need to log in to LinkedIn to see them.
What’s the difference between muting and unfollowing on LinkedIn?
Muting stops notifications from a specific conversation thread. Unfollowing stops all notifications from a connection’s profile updates. Mute for temporary quiet, unfollow if you don’t need any updates from that person.
Can I get LinkedIn notifications as SMS text messages instead?
LinkedIn does not currently have an option to receive notifications via text message. Your choices are limited to app notifications or emails.
However, there are third-party services like TextMagic that let you create an SMS forwarding email address. You could then use this special address for your LinkedIn notification settings to get text alerts.
Why do I still get some LinkedIn emails even after disabling notifications?
There are a handful of mandatory transactional emails LinkedIn will always send, like password reset confirmations. You cannot disable these for security reasons. Focus instead on disabling optional notifications.
Conclusion
With LinkedIn being such a popular social media platform for professionals, it’s easy for notifications to start cluttering up your inbox. Luckily, LinkedIn provides robust notification settings that allow you to fully customize where, when, and which notifications you receive.
By adjusting your notification preferences, muting conversations, unfollowing connections, and leveraging Gmail filtering, you can keep control over your LinkedIn alerts. This will allow you to reduce the notifications sent to your Gmail account so you only receive the most relevant LinkedIn updates.
Implementing the right notification management strategies will ensure you stay informed about activity on LinkedIn without being overwhelmed. With a few simple tweaks, you’ll be able to stop notifications from going to Gmail and keep your inbox clutter-free.