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How to Turn Off Comment Notifications on LinkedIn
How to turn off comment notifications on LinkedIn: mute a single post, switch off the whole category, and stop the email and push copies that keep arriving.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- To turn off comment notifications on LinkedIn for one post, open the More menu next to the notification and choose Turn off. Everything else about your account is unaffected.
- For a permanent change, go to the Notifications tab, open View Settings, pick the category, and switch the individual options off.
- In-app, email, and push notifications are three separate systems. Switching off the in-app alert does not stop the email copy.
- Most people who want this actually want one loud thread silenced, not the whole category. Mute the thread first and see whether that fixes it.
- Turning off comment notifications entirely means missing replies on your own posts, which is usually the engagement you cannot afford to lose.
Turn the category off across your account
For a permanent change, you need the settings screen rather than the notification row.
Desktop: click the Notifications icon on the homepage, then View Settings under "Manage your Notifications." You land on a list under "Notifications you receive." Open the relevant category and switch individual options On or Off.
Mobile: tap the Notifications icon in the navigation bar, then the settings icon in the top right. Same list, same categories.
The categories are more granular than the toggle wall suggests. Under the posts and comments grouping you can usually separate comments on your own posts from replies to comments you left elsewhere, and those are very different volumes of traffic. Turn off the second one and keep the first, and you have solved most of the noise without going dark on your own content.
That distinction matters more than people expect. Replies on your own posts are the engagement you should be answering, and answering them quickly is one of the few levers that genuinely helps a post keep circulating. We made that argument in should you reply to every LinkedIn comment, and the short version is that you should reply to more of them than you currently do.
Email and push are separate switches
The most common complaint after someone changes these settings is that the emails kept coming.
LinkedIn treats in-app, email, and mobile push as three delivery channels for the same underlying event, and its help page on email and mobile notifications covers them separately from the in-app list for exactly that reason. Switching one off does nothing to the other two.
If the noise is arriving in your inbox, the fix is in the email preferences under Settings and Privacy, not in the Notifications tab. If it is buzzing your phone at 11pm, that is the push channel, and your device level notification settings for the LinkedIn app are a fourth place the same event can be stopped.
Four switches for one alert is genuinely bad design and it is the reason this question keeps getting asked.
Turning off comments themselves is a different thing
Worth separating clearly, because the searches look similar.
Turning off comment notifications stops you being told about comments. The comments still happen and the post still has a comment section.
Turning off comments stops people from commenting at all, using LinkedIn's comment control on the post itself. That is a much larger decision and it costs you the reach that a comment section generates. We covered when it is justified in how to turn off comments on LinkedIn posts.
If your reason for silencing notifications is that a specific person keeps replying, neither of those is the right tool. Comment control and blocking are, and the thread mute is the low drama middle option.
What you lose, and how we think about it
Here is the tradeoff nobody mentions when they tell you to turn everything off.
Comments on your own posts are the only real time signal LinkedIn gives you about whether something is working. Turn those off and you find out three days later, by which point the window to reply is gone. The first hour of replies is the part that keeps a thread alive, and every one you miss is a small amount of reach you did not have to lose. The mechanics are in how to reply to comments on LinkedIn.
This is a live tension in our own product, so we have thought about it more than is reasonable. We build Commenti, which drafts LinkedIn comments and posts them on a pacing schedule. Anyone commenting at that kind of volume generates a lot of downstream replies, and the naive answer would be to route them all somewhere and let the user drown. What we do instead is treat notifications as a signal worth keeping and volume as the thing to control: daily caps, pacing, and skip filters that pass on posts where a reply would add nothing. Fewer comments, each one worth being notified about. That is a genuine limitation on how fast the product will work for you, and we think it is the correct one.
Being straight about the context, since it applies to us as much as to anyone: LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits third-party automation, ours included, and Commenti operates in that gray zone openly. The product is built to reduce risk, and reduce is the only verb we will use.
The order to try things
Mute the specific thread first. Most of the time you are done.
If it happens weekly, go into Notifications settings and turn off replies to comments you left elsewhere, while keeping comments on your own posts.
If the noise is in your inbox or on your phone rather than in the app, you are in the wrong settings screen. Email and push are separate and have to be turned off separately.
And leave notifications on for your own posts. That one is not noise, it is the job.
Frequently asked questions
How do I stop getting notifications for one specific LinkedIn post?
Find any notification from that post in your Notifications tab, open the More menu beside it, and select Turn off. LinkedIn stops sending updates about that specific post or thread while leaving every other notification alone. This is the fix most people are looking for.
Where are LinkedIn notification settings?
On desktop, click the Notifications icon and select View Settings under Manage your Notifications. On mobile, tap the Notifications icon, then the settings icon in the top right. Both take you to Notifications you receive, where each category can be opened and adjusted individually.
Why do I still get emails after turning off notifications?
Because email is a separate switch. LinkedIn treats in-app, email, and push as three delivery channels for the same event. Turning the in-app notification off does not stop the email version. You have to adjust the email preferences separately in Settings.
Will turning off comment notifications hurt my reach?
Not directly. LinkedIn does not rank your posts based on your notification settings. Indirectly it can, because replying quickly to comments keeps a thread active, and you will not reply to what you never see. Mute the noisy threads rather than the category.
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.
You commented on a post that took off, and for the next four days your phone told you about every one of the six hundred people who joined the conversation after you. Working out how to turn off comment notifications on LinkedIn is the obvious response, and there are three different settings that all claim to do it.
They do different things, and picking the wrong one either fails to fix the problem or silences something you needed.
First, work out which problem you have
Almost everyone asking this question is in one of three situations.
One thread is out of control. You commented on something viral and now every reply is your problem. You want that thread silenced and nothing else touched.
Your own posts are noisy. You are getting a notification for every comment on things you published, and it has become a distraction rather than a signal.
The whole account is too loud. Comments are only part of it. Reactions, job anniversaries, and suggestions are all firing too.
Fix number one takes ten seconds and solves the majority of cases. Fix number three is a settings review. Do not reach for the big switch if the small one covers it.
Mute a single post or thread
This is the setting people want and do not know exists.
Open your Notifications tab. Find any notification from the offending post. Click or tap the More icon next to it, and choose Turn off.
LinkedIn's help documentation on managing notification updates describes this option as a way to "stop receiving updates on a specific post, person, or a particular thread on your feed." That last part is the useful bit: the scope is the thread, not your account. Everything else keeps working exactly as before.
Note that it applies to the post, not to your relationship with the person. You will still see their other content and get notified about their other activity. If you want that changed too, unfollowing is a separate and quieter action than disconnecting.