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How to Delete a Comment on LinkedIn (Yours or Others)
How to delete a comment on LinkedIn, on desktop and mobile, on your own posts and on Page posts, plus what happens to replies and whether people get notified.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- To delete your own comment, open the comment, click the More icon in its upper-right corner, click Delete, then confirm in the pop-up. The same steps work on desktop and in the mobile app.
- Deleting a comment is not the same as turning off comments on a post. One removes a single comment, the other limits who can comment at all.
- On a Company Page post, only super admins and content admins can delete comments, and doing so also removes all likes and replies on that comment.
- When an admin deletes a comment on a Page post, the person who wrote it is not notified, though they may notice it is gone.
- If you cannot find an old comment to delete, use your profile activity feed filtered to Comments to locate it quickly instead of scrolling the original post.
Delete a comment on your personal post
When someone comments on a post you published from your personal profile, you can remove that comment yourself. Open the comment, use the same More icon in its corner, and choose the delete option.
This is useful for obvious spam or a genuinely abusive reply. We would gently suggest restraint for everything else. Deleting a thoughtful disagreement tends to read as thin skin if the person notices, and people often do notice. A reply that adds a different view is usually worth leaving up, and sometimes worth answering. If you are unsure what a good reply even looks like, what to comment on LinkedIn is a useful reference for the standard you are holding others to.
Delete a comment on a Company Page post
Page posts follow different rules. According to LinkedIn's help center, only super admins and content admins can delete comments on a Page post. If you are a regular follower, you will not see the option on someone else's Page thread.
For admins, the desktop path is:
- Open your Page in admin view.
- Click Page posts in the left menu.
- Find the post, then click the More icon on the specific comment.
- Click Delete, then confirm.
In the mobile app you reach it through the Page dashboard, then Page posts, then the More menu on the comment. LinkedIn notes one important side effect: deleting a comment on a Page post also removes all likes and replies on it, and the commenting member is not notified. So a single deletion can quietly remove a whole sub-thread. Weigh that before nuking a comment that has real replies attached.
Can't find the comment you want to delete?
Scrolling back through an old post to find one stray comment is miserable. There is a faster route through your own activity. From your profile, open your activity, then filter to Comments, and you get a clean list of everything you have said. From there you can open any comment and delete it at the source.
We wrote a full walkthrough of that view in how to find your comments on LinkedIn, which is the quickest way to clean up years of old comments without archaeology.
How we think about deleting at Commenti
We build a commenting tool, so our bias is toward writing fewer comments you would want to delete in the first place. The honest reason people mass-delete old comments is usually not privacy, it is that a stretch of low-effort or off-key comments does not represent them well anymore.
The fix is upstream. A comment that adds something specific, stays kind, and reads like a person rarely becomes a regret. That is the whole design goal on our side: help you leave comments worth keeping, at a human pace, with a review step before anything posts. We are candid that LinkedIn's terms prohibit third-party automation and that we sit in that gray area, and our features are built to reduce that risk rather than pretend it away. No tool removes the risk entirely, and deleting a bad comment after the fact is always slower than not posting it.
So yes, delete the typo, delete the spam, delete the comment that came out wrong. Just remember that the delete button is a cleanup tool, and the real win is needing it less often.
Frequently asked questions
How do I delete a comment I made on LinkedIn?
Go to your comment, click or tap the More icon in the upper-right corner of the comment, choose Delete, and confirm in the pop-up window. This works the same on desktop and in the mobile app. If you only want to fix a typo, edit the comment instead of deleting it, since editing keeps any replies intact.
Can I delete a comment someone left on my post?
On a personal profile post you can delete comments other people leave, using the same More icon and Delete option on that comment. On a Company Page post, only super admins and content admins can delete comments. Deleting removes the comment along with its likes and replies.
Does someone get notified when I delete their comment?
LinkedIn does not send a notification when a Page comment is deleted, so the commenter is not alerted. They may still realize it is gone if they look for it. Deleting is quiet, but it is not secret, so use it for spam and rule breaking rather than to hide honest disagreement.
What happens to replies when I delete a comment?
When you delete a comment, LinkedIn also removes all likes and replies attached to it. That means deleting a top comment can wipe out a whole thread of responses underneath it. If the replies are valuable, consider whether hiding or leaving the comment is better than deleting the entire branch.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Co-founder, Apna Project
Co-founder at Apna Project, where he helps founders and agencies turn ideas into products. Writes here on LinkedIn growth and what actually earns attention in a comment section. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
Maybe you fired off a comment too fast, spotted a typo the second you hit post, or you run a Company Page and a spammer is filling your thread. Whatever the reason, deleting a comment on LinkedIn takes about three taps once you know where the menu hides.
The steps differ slightly depending on whether the comment is yours, sits on your personal post, or lives on a Company Page you manage. Here is each case, plus the details LinkedIn does not shout about: what happens to replies, and whether anyone finds out.
Delete your own comment (desktop and mobile)
This is the most common case, and the steps are identical on the website and in the app. Per LinkedIn's own help documentation:
That is it. The comment disappears, along with any likes and replies it collected. There is no undo, so the confirmation step is the moment to be sure.
One thing worth saying plainly: deleting your own comment is not the same as turning off or limiting comments on a post. Those are separate controls. If your real goal is to stop new comments from arriving, see how to turn off comments on LinkedIn posts instead.
Delete versus edit: pick the right one
If the only problem is a typo or a link you want to fix, do not delete. Edit. Deleting throws away any reactions and replies your comment already earned, which is a real cost if the thread was going well.
Editing keeps the comment, its position, and its replies, and just updates the text. We walk through the mechanics of changing published content in editing a LinkedIn post after posting, and the same instinct applies to comments: reach for edit first, delete only when the whole comment needs to be gone.