How to Unfollow on LinkedIn Without Removing

Unfollowing is often confused with removing, but they're very different:

• Unfollow — you stay connected (still 1st-degree), but their posts stop appearing in your feed. You can still message each other and visit each other's profiles normally.
• Remove — ends the connection entirely.

Unfollow is ideal when a connection posts too much, shares off-topic content, or floods your feed — but you still value the professional relationship. Like removing, unfollowing sends no notification, so the other person won't know.

There are two simple manual methods on LinkedIn:

From their profile:

1. Open the person's profile.
2. Click the More button below their headline.
3. Select Unfollow.

From a post in your feed:

1. Click the … in the top-right corner of one of their posts.
2. Choose Unfollow [Name].

Both achieve the same result. This works well for the occasional noisy contact, but clearing out many at once means repeating it dozens of times.

Open the panel and use the filters to build your unfollow list:

• Search by name or headline to find specific noisy accounts
• Filter by company to quiet posts from a particular organization
• Filter by connection age to focus on older contacts whose posts no longer feel relevant

The panel previews the matches and shows a live count. Add anyone you still want to hear from — or bulk-actions to your Protected list so they're never touched.

With your filtered list ready, use Mass Unfollow to unfollow every matching connection in one click. A progress bar tracks the run and you can cancel anytime. Pick a pacing mode — Conservative, Normal, or Fast — with Conservative recommended for large batches.

Because every contact stays connected, this is a completely reversible way to reset a noisy feed: your network is unchanged, only what you see is.