How to Hide LinkedIn Profile?

Want to hide your LinkedIn profile from the public? Here is the simple step-by-step procedure:

After signing in to your LinkedIn account, click on the “me” option at the top right corner of your LinkedIn homepage.

A drop-down with your profile picture and a “View Profile” option will appear. Go to view profile.

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LinkedIn will redirect you to another page where you can edit your profile’s visibility. On the top-right corner, click “Edit public profile & URL”.

Source: Linkedin.com

 

Next, scroll down to the bottom of the page. You’ll see your desired options there.

Source: Linkedin.com

 

You can set your LinkedIn profile’s visibility to the public by toggling the option to “ON”. Or, you can hide LinkedIn profile by toggling the option to “Off”.

Remember that you can only hide LinkedIn profile from the public and non-LinkedIn subsrcibers. So, even if you turn your profile’s visibility off, people with LinkedIn accounts can still see it.

You don’t have to hide LinkedIn profile completely. LinkedIn allows you to pick your preferences on what information to show to the public.

If you keep your profile’s visibility public and scroll down a little, you’ll see a complete list of options. They help you hide the individual sections of your profile that you don’t want the public to see.

For instance, if you don’t want to hide LinkedIn profile fully and just want to keep your headline secret, you can just toddle it off.

Now that you know how to hide LinkedIn profileon the desktop, let’s tell you how to hide LinkedIn profile on the mobile app.

 

Hide LinkedIn Profile on Mobile App

Log into your LinkedIn account on the mobile app. At the top of the screen, you’ll see your profile picture; click on it.

• • Then, tap “View Profile”
  • On the top right corner of your mobile screen, tap the settings icon
  • Select the “Visibility” option under settings
  • Tap “Edit your public profile”
  • When you’ll scroll down, you’ll see the options to either hide your profile completely or hide individual sections of it

That’s it. Your LinkedIn profile will be removed from the public view in a few days.

 

Hiding Your LinkedIn Profile

Your public profile on LinkedIn is also ranked on search engines like Google. So, it’s important to see if the changes you’ve made have reflected on Google.

An important thing to remember here is that search engines work differently. They might take some time to crawl and identify the changes you’ve made to your LinkedIn profile.

So, it would probably take some time to get your profile off the public eye.

Another thing that you might want to remember is that a LinkedIn user can see your profile no matter what.

Plus, even when a non-user lands on your site, they might be prompted by the platform to create an account to view your profile.

So, if they create an account right there, your profile will not remain hidden from them.

 

Hiding Sections of Your LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn allows its users to hide their profiles from the public. But, it also allows you to hide selective portions of your profile.

So, you decide which information of your profile you want to share with the world. Thanks to this feature, you might not have to hide your whole profile.

LinkedIn currently doesn’t allow you to hide your profile from everyone. As mentioned before, LinkedIn users can still visit and see your profile.

 

Can You Temporarily Disable Your LinkedIn Account?

Unfortunately, if you are a LinkedIn user and want to temporarily disable your profile, you can’t do that. LinkedIn doesn’t have that option right now.

But, you can control the information that the platform shows to the public as discussed in detail above.

 

When Do You Need to Hide Your Account Details?

There might be several reasons why anyone would want to hide their LinkedIn account details from the public.

It’ll mainly depend on your own needs. For instance, you can hide your profile picture from someone that lands on LinkedIn without an account.

Or, let’s say you want to keep your projects hidden from the public for some reason. You can just toggle off the visibility of projects in your profile by following the procedure discussed above.

LinkedIn makes it pretty easy for its users to control and display the right information to the right people.

Plus, it’s possible that you want to stay out of the public eye for a while. Normally, you don’t want to delete your LinkedIn profile as all your data also gets deleted.

So, hiding your profile from the public is the right option when you want to be invisible to the sources outside LinkedIn.

Normally, when your profile is set to “Public”, people can reach it from search engines like Yahoo, Google, Bing, etc.

Moreover, your profile can also get traffic from public profile badges. LinkedIn allows users to include profile badges on blogs, websites, or resumes.

Lastly, a LinkedIn public profile is visible to third-party services like Yahoo Mail, Outlook, and more.

 

Conclusion

While LinkedIn doesn’t let you disable your account temporarily, it makes it pretty easy for you to hide it from the public.

You just have to follow a simple procedure. To recap,

• • Click on the “me” option at the top of your LinkedIn page
  • Click on “View Profile”
  • Select “Edit Public Profile and URL”
  • Toggle “Your Profile’s Public Visibility” off

Remember that this can only hide your profile from search engines and external sources. It would still be visible to LinkedIn users.

Or, if someone wanted to view your profile, they can sign up for a LinkedIn account right there and then. Moreover, you can also hide specific information about your profile from the public.

The best thing about hiding your LinkedIn profile is that it’s as simple as clicking your mouse. And, when you want to make it active again, all you have to do is turn the visibility ON again.