Quick answer: LinkedIn notifications usually stop coming through because push notifications are disabled at the phone’s operating-system level, a specific notification type has been switched off inside LinkedIn’s own settings, or your browser is blocking site notifications. Checking both your phone’s app permissions and LinkedIn’s in-app notification settings resolves it in almost every case.
Where the Setting Actually Lives
LinkedIn notifications are controlled in three separate places, and missing just one of them is enough to silence alerts: your phone’s system-level app permissions, LinkedIn’s own Settings → Notifications menu, and — if you use LinkedIn in a browser — that browser’s site notification permission.
How to Fix It on Mobile
- iOS: Settings → Notifications → LinkedIn, and make sure “Allow Notifications” is on.
- Android: Settings → Apps → LinkedIn → Notifications, and check nothing is set to “Blocked.”
- Inside the LinkedIn app: Settings → Notifications, and check the specific category (messages, invitations, job alerts, etc.) hasn’t been individually turned off.
- Make sure battery-saver or background-restriction settings for the app aren’t preventing it from receiving pushes while closed.
How to Fix It in Your Browser
- Check your browser’s site settings for linkedin.com and make sure notifications are set to “Allow,” not “Block.”
- Some browsers silently revoke notification permission after long periods of inactivity — re-enable it manually if it’s been a while.
- Notifications won’t fire from a closed browser tab or window, so LinkedIn needs to be open in a tab (or installed as a desktop app/PWA) to deliver them in real time.
When You’ve Muted Something Without Realizing
If only notifications from one specific person or company page have stopped, check that you haven’t muted them individually — this is separate from your global notification settings and easy to trigger by accident from a post’s options menu.
Notification Settings That Silently Reset After an App Update
It’s worth checking your notification preferences again after any recent LinkedIn app update, even if you never touched them yourself. Major app updates occasionally reset specific toggles back to their defaults, especially for less commonly used categories like job alerts or content recommendations, while leaving the ones you’d notice (like messages) untouched. If notifications for one specific category stopped while everything else works fine, this is a more likely explanation than a general bug.
Email Notifications vs. Push Notifications: Checking the Right Place
LinkedIn manages email and push notifications as separate settings, and it’s easy to fix one while assuming you’ve fixed both. If you’ve only checked the in-app notification settings, also look at Settings & Privacy > Communications > Email frequency from a desktop browser, since some notification types (like weekly summaries or connection suggestions) are email-only and won’t appear as a push notification option at all, regardless of your app settings.
Notification Badge Shows Nothing Even Though You Have Unread Activity
A missing red badge count on the app icon, while notifications still work once you open the app, usually points to an operating system-level permission rather than anything inside LinkedIn itself. On iPhone, check Settings > LinkedIn > Notifications and confirm both “Badges” and “Allow Notifications” are switched on; on Android, the equivalent is under your phone’s app notification settings for LinkedIn specifically, not inside the LinkedIn app. This is one of the more overlooked causes because everything inside the app itself looks completely normal.
Testing With a Second Device to Isolate the Cause
If you have access to a second phone or a tablet, logging into LinkedIn there and checking whether notifications behave the same way is one of the fastest ways to narrow down the cause. If the second device gets notifications normally, the issue is specific to your primary phone’s settings, battery optimization rules, or app version — not your LinkedIn account, which rules out needing to contact LinkedIn support entirely.
Working through these checks in order usually narrows the cause down quickly, since each one rules out a different layer — app, device, or account settings.
If you manage multiple LinkedIn accounts on one device, double check you’re reviewing settings for the correct one.
None of these checks require you to sign out of your account, so your settings and connections stay untouched throughout.
FAQ
Why do I get email notifications but not push notifications? Email and push notifications are controlled independently in LinkedIn’s settings — having one enabled doesn’t automatically enable the other.
Can too many notifications cause LinkedIn to throttle them? LinkedIn does batch and digest some lower-priority notifications during high-activity periods, which can make individual alerts feel delayed rather than missing.
Will reinstalling the app fix a persistent notification problem? It can, since it resets the app’s notification registration with your device — worth trying if permissions look correct but notifications still aren’t arriving.
