
Step 1: Open up your web browser and go to and log into your account if you haven't already done so. If you normally use LinkedIn on your PC, here's how to block someone via the desktop website: How to block people on LinkedIn: On desktop web According to LinkedIn's help guide on the matter, there are situations in which they will have to notify that user that they're being blocked by you, such as if it were a situation in which you and that person share a LinkedIn Recruiter account then they "may need to let that member or the Recruiter admin know about the block in order to effectively manage that Recruiter account." This is all to say that the person you want to block may get notified about it, so block wisely. Note: For the most part, LinkedIn won't notify the person that you're blocking them. Oddly enough, there is a cap on how many people you can block on LinkedIn: 1,400. And if for some reason you need to block someone again after unblocking them, you should know that there's a 48-hour waiting period before you can do so. LinkedIn has a long list of what happens (or may not happen) if you choose to block someone and it's worth reviewing before blocking people, to make sure that it's something you really want to do. But it also means that they can't send you messages and they won't be connected to you anymore.


When you officially block someone on LinkedIn, it generally means they can't view your profile anymore. In this guide, we'll focus on showing you how to do it two ways: on the desktop website (if you're on a PC) and on the LinkedIn mobile app (if you're using a mobile device). And you can do it via a variety of methods.
