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Turn Off Comments on LinkedIn Company Page: Admin Steps
How to turn off comments on a LinkedIn company page post, before publishing and after, the admin roles required, and the iOS caveat that deletes existing comments.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- Only a Page super admin or content admin can turn off comments on a LinkedIn company page post. Other admin roles cannot.
- Before publishing, use Comment control in the post composer and choose No One. LinkedIn documents this as desktop and iOS only.
- For a post that is already live, switch to View as member, open the More menu on the post, click Who can comment on this post, and select No One. That path is desktop only.
- One caveat worth knowing: LinkedIn's ads documentation states that on iOS, disabling comments after posting removes existing comments permanently, while desktop and Android keep them.
- Sponsored versions of a Page post are handled in Campaign Manager, and turning comments off there affects the organic post too.
Turning them off on a post that is already live
This one catches people out, because you cannot do it from the admin view directly. You have to look at your own Page the way a member does.
- Open your Page super or content admin view.
- Click View as member at the top of the admin view.
- Find the post in the Page feed.
- Click the More icon in the upper right corner of the post.
- Click Who can comment on this post?
- Select No One from the dropdown.
- Click Save.
LinkedIn documents this path as desktop only. There is no equivalent in the mobile admin experience, so if a thread is going badly and you are away from a laptop, the realistic options are moderation and time.
The caveat that costs people their comment thread
Here is the detail that is easy to miss, and it comes from LinkedIn's own sponsored content documentation: on iOS, disabling comments after posting removes existing comments permanently, while on desktop and Android the existing comments remain.
Read that twice if you manage a Page from a phone. Turning comments off on a post that already has fifty replies is a reversible visibility decision on desktop and an irreversible deletion on iOS. Removed comments cannot be recovered.
For personal posts, LinkedIn's guidance is that turning commenting off blocks new comments rather than erasing the existing ones, which is the behaviour most people expect and the reason the iOS exception surprises them. The personal-profile version of all of this is in how to turn off comments on LinkedIn posts.
If the post is also running as an ad
Sponsored versions of a Page post are managed separately, in Campaign Manager rather than on the Page. A super or content admin with access to the ad set can open the feed preview on the Set up Ads page, use the post menu, click Who can comment on this post? and choose No one. Individual comments can be deleted from the same preview.
Worth knowing before you do it: LinkedIn states that turning comments off there disables them for the sponsored and the organic post together. They are one post with two distributions, not two objects.
What we would do instead, most of the time
Comments are a ranking signal. A Page post with comments turned off is asking LinkedIn to distribute content that cannot generate the strongest engagement type it measures, and Page reach is already the harder version of this problem. We went through what actually moves it in how to grow a LinkedIn company page.
So our order of preference is: moderate first, restrict second, disable last. Delete the individual comment that is a problem. Reply once, factually, to the criticism that is fair. Turn comments off only when the post is an announcement rather than a conversation, or when you can see a pile-on forming and nobody is available to sit with it.
The one situation where we would turn them off without hesitating is a post about a person: a bereavement, a departure that was not voluntary, anything where a stranger's hot take lands on someone who did not sign up for it. Reach is not worth that.
And if the reason you are here is that comments are already off and you did not turn them off, check whether an earlier post set the default, then look at whether the author is using comment gating or restricted the audience at publish time. When a Page account posts, the settings follow the Page, not the person clicking publish, which is its own small source of confusion. How to use the Page account well, once comments are back on, is in how to comment on LinkedIn posts as a company.
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Frequently asked questions
Who can turn off comments on a LinkedIn company page?
LinkedIn restricts this to Page super admins and content admins. If the option is missing from your view, check your role on the Page rather than looking for a hidden setting. Analyst and curator style roles do not get comment controls.
Can I turn off comments on a company page post after publishing it?
Yes, on desktop. Go to your admin view, click View as member, find the post, open the More icon in the top right, click Who can comment on this post, choose No One, and save. LinkedIn documents this path as desktop only.
Will turning comments off delete the comments already there?
It depends on where you do it. LinkedIn's sponsored content documentation states that disabling comments after posting removes existing comments permanently on iOS, while on desktop and Android existing comments remain. Use desktop if you want to keep the thread.
Can I limit company page comments to connections only?
Not in the way personal profiles can. LinkedIn's Page documentation describes the control as choosing No One rather than the three-way Anyone, Connections, No one choice that individual posts get. Pages have moderation tools instead.
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.
The setting you need to turn off comments on LinkedIn company page posts is not where the personal-profile setting is, and half the people looking for it are looking in the wrong view of the Page. It exists, it takes about twenty seconds, and there is one caveat that can quietly delete a comment thread you wanted to keep.
We build commenting software, so our instinct is almost always to leave comments on. This one is the exception often enough to be worth documenting properly.
First, check which admin role you have
LinkedIn limits comment controls on a Page to super admins and content admins. If you have any other role on the Page, the option will not appear, and no amount of clicking around the settings menu will produce it.
That is the first thing to verify, because "the setting is missing" is almost always a permissions answer rather than a product one. Ask whoever owns the Page to check your role before you go looking further.
Turning comments off before the post goes out
This is the cleaner path, and it is the one to use for anything you already know will attract a mess: a redundancy announcement, a price change, a statement on something political.
On desktop, from your Page super or content admin view:
LinkedIn documents this feature as available on desktop and iOS only. On iOS the control sits in the same composer and defaults to Anyone until you change it. If you are on Android and this matters, draft on desktop.