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How to Hide Suggested Posts on LinkedIn (Honest Options)
How to hide suggested posts on LinkedIn: the exact feed controls that work, why there is no single off switch, and how to quietly retrain what shows up in your feed.
By Deepak Yadav, Founder, Ampliflow
The short version
- There is no single switch that turns off suggested posts on LinkedIn. What you have is a set of controls that hide individual posts and retrain the feed over time.
- The fastest fix is the three-dot menu on a post: choose 'I don't want to see this' to hide it, and pick a reason so the feed learns.
- Unfollowing without disconnecting is the underused move. You stay connected but stop seeing a source's updates, and they are not notified.
- Muting a person keeps the connection and hides their posts quietly, which is gentler than unfollowing when you still want to keep the tie.
- Suggested posts exist because LinkedIn fills your feed beyond people you follow. You can shrink them a lot, but curating is ongoing, not a one-time setting.
Unfollow the sources you keep hiding
If the same person or page keeps generating posts you hide, stop treating the symptom and address the source. You can unfollow someone without removing the connection.
According to LinkedIn's help on following and unfollowing, unfollowing means you stay connected but no longer see that source's updates in your feed, and they are not notified. This is the move most people miss. They assume the only options are "put up with it" or "remove the connection," when the quiet middle option is exactly what they want. You keep the relationship and reclaim the feed space.
Mute when you want it even gentler
Muting is the softer cousin of unfollowing. It hides a person's posts from your feed while keeping both the connection and, in most cases, the ability to easily reverse it later. Nobody is told. Use it when you still value the tie but do not want a high-volume poster dominating your feed. Between hiding individual posts, unfollowing, and muting, you have a full range from one-off to permanent, all without a single awkward notification going out.
Check your feed preferences too
Beyond the per-post controls, LinkedIn keeps a set of feed preferences you can manage directly. From your feed, look for the option to manage what you see, which gathers the accounts and topics you follow and the sources you have muted or unfollowed in one place. It is easier to prune from a single list than to wait for each unwanted source to appear again in the feed.
This is also where you can review follows you forgot about. Many people follow a burst of accounts early on, then never revisit the list, and those old follows quietly shape the feed for years. A five-minute audit of who and what you follow does more than any amount of hiding individual posts, because it fixes the input rather than filtering the output.
Retrain, do not just remove
The controls above are subtractive. The other half of a good feed is additive: give LinkedIn stronger signals about what you do want. Follow the specific people and topics you care about, and engage with them deliberately. The feed weights what you interact with, so a few genuine comments on the right posts pull more of that content in and push generic suggestions down.
This is the same mechanic behind reach in general, which we explain in how the LinkedIn algorithm works. It is also why we think commenting is underrated: it is one of the clearest signals you can send about what belongs in your world. If a lot of what clutters your feed is low-effort attention farming, our piece on engagement bait explains why hiding it also helps you stop rewarding it.
What to expect
Realistic expectations keep you from giving up. You will not get to zero suggested posts, because the feed is built to include them. You will, within a couple of weeks of hiding, unfollowing, and muting, get a feed that is mostly the people and topics you chose, with suggestions that are at least closer to relevant.
We build Commenti, a tool that helps people comment consistently on LinkedIn, so we care about feeds being usable: a cluttered feed is a feed you engage with less, and less engagement is worse for everyone, you included. The controls here are free, they are quiet, and used as a habit rather than a one-time cleanup, they work.
Frequently asked questions
How do I stop seeing suggested posts on LinkedIn?
There is no global off switch. Use the three-dot menu on each suggested post and choose "I don't want to see this," then select a reason so the feed adjusts. Over time this reduces similar content. You can also unfollow or mute the sources that keep surfacing, which stops their posts without ending the connection.
Is there a setting to turn off suggested posts completely?
No. LinkedIn does not offer a single toggle that removes all suggested or recommended content from your feed. The feed is designed to include posts beyond the people you follow. What you can do is hide individual posts, unfollow or mute sources, and use feed preferences, which together shrink suggestions substantially but never to zero.
What is the difference between unfollowing and removing a connection?
Unfollowing keeps the connection but stops their posts from showing in your feed, and they are not notified. Removing a connection cuts the tie entirely. If you want a quieter feed without burning the relationship, unfollow or mute instead of disconnecting. You keep the contact and simply stop seeing their updates.
Why does LinkedIn show me posts from people I don't follow?
Because the feed is built to surface content beyond your immediate network, based on what your connections engage with and what LinkedIn thinks is relevant to you. That is why suggested posts appear even when you follow no one new. Hiding posts and picking reasons teaches the feed, but some recommended content is part of how the feed works.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Founder, Ampliflow
Builds Commenti at Ampliflow, and has worked across 80+ startups as an AI micro-SaaS builder. Writes about what the product data actually shows, including the parts that are inconvenient. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
If your LinkedIn feed is four suggested posts deep before you reach anyone you actually follow, you are not imagining it. Suggested and recommended content is a core part of how the feed is built, and there is no tidy button that switches it all off.
What you do have is a set of real controls that, used together, quietly retrain the feed toward the people and topics you came for. We spend a lot of time inside LinkedIn feeds, and here is the honest version of what works, what does not, and why.
The honest answer first: no single off switch
Let us clear this up before you go looking for a setting that is not there. LinkedIn does not offer a global toggle that removes all suggested posts from your feed. The feed is designed to pull in content beyond the accounts you follow, based on what your network engages with and what LinkedIn judges relevant to you.
That means the goal is not elimination, it is reduction. You can shrink suggested posts a lot and steer what fills that space, but you are curating an ongoing feed, not flipping a permanent switch. Once you accept that, the tools below start to feel useful instead of disappointing.
Hide individual posts and give a reason
The fastest, most direct control is on every post itself. Tap the three-dot menu in the top right of a post and choose "I don't want to see this." LinkedIn hides that post and, per its help page on hiding feed content, asks you to pick a reason. That reason is the important part. It is how the feed learns what to show you less of.
The person who posted is not notified, so there is no social cost. Do this consistently for a week or two on the suggested content you do not want, and the feed genuinely shifts. It is slow and cumulative rather than instant, but it is the single most effective habit for a cleaner feed.