How to remove a connection on LinkedIn

As you build up your LinkedIn business network, you will find yourself constantly tweaking it. It’s easy to approve all those connection requests, but in hindsight, it clutters up your feed with people who may not be of any real value to you in terms of time and job opportunities. You also may want to remove anyone from your current company so you can job search secretly. Here is how to remove a connection on LinkedIn.

How to remove a connection on LinkedIn (desktop and app)

There are two ways to remove a connection on the LinkedIn website and app. The first is not so discreet in that the person will see you have visited your profile and may wonder why. LinkedIn does not tell them you have removed their connection to you, but if they poke around, they’ll likely figure it out for themselves. So if you’d rather keep the disconnection secret for as long as possible, we’ll cover that in a moment.

The not-so-discreet method

The first method involves going to the person’s LinkedIn page. Then click More > Remove Recommendation.

Be sure this is what you want to do before you do it. Removing the connection also permanently removes any recommendations and skills endorsements that the person has left for you.

The more discreet method

Whichever way you do this, the other person will find out eventually. But if you would like to delay that for as long as possible, there is a second method of removing a connection on LinkedIn.

Go to My Network at the top of the page and click Connections on the left.

Look for the person that you want to remove and click the three dots to the right of their name. Then click Remove connection. This method is more discreet because you don’t need to go to the person’s actual LinkedIn profile to do this. You’re remaining in your account.

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