LinkedIn Notifications Not Working? Here’s the Fix!


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It seems that my LinkedIn notifications turn on and off. Sometimes, I get notified of comments, and sometimes, I don’t. It’s annoying. Are LinkedIn notifications not working for you as well? It’s a settings issue, and sometimes, it seems to turn off even after I turn it on.

Quite honestly, LinkedIn notifications are a handful to wrangle. There are certainly enough options, but all the options also make it more difficult and time-consuming to turn on the ones that you actually want.

The fix

On the desktop, click on your profile picture on the top right. Then settings and privacy. Notifications on the left. Then the sections for which you want to turn notifications on.

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Why I like LinkedIn notifications

I also like LinkedIn notifications for LinkedIn Livestreams, but at the very least it’s annoying when they aren’t working when people comment on my posts. I want to see who is engaging and maybe I want to reply. That can be an impossible task when I don’t get notified.

So when they work, my process goes like this:

So, if LinkedIn notifications are not working for you, this is a way to fix that. But don’t complain that now you are getting too many.



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