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How to use LinkedIn without the feed
LinkedIn is the odd one out here. It has one feed rather than four surfaces, and it is the only app of the six with a documented setting that permanently changes how that feed is ordered. Most people have never found it. Here is where it lives, checked in August 2026, what it genuinely fixes, and the part it cannot touch.
One feed, one sort order, and everything else
LinkedIn's home screen is a single ranked stream. Mixed into posts from your connections are posts a connection reacted to, posts from companies and hashtags you follow, and suggestions. There is no short video tab pulling at you from the corner the way Reels and Shorts do, which makes LinkedIn the simplest of the six to reason about.
Everything that makes LinkedIn worth keeping sits elsewhere: messaging, job search and saved jobs, notifications, your network, company pages and profiles. None of it is a feed, and none of it is affected by how the home screen is ordered.
Preferred Feed View, and the rest of LinkedIn's controls
Checked against LinkedIn's Help Center in August 2026.
The setting that sticks
Open Settings and Privacy, then Account preferences, then General preferences, then Preferred Feed View. There are two choices. Most relevant posts is the ranked default. Most recent posts, in LinkedIn's own words, shows the latest posts first, only from people whom you follow.
LinkedIn says the change is saved automatically and that your feed will always show the view you selected. That is unusually good, and it is the single best thing on this page that costs nothing. If suggested posts and week-old viral content are your complaint, this fixes it.
LinkedIn also documents a Sort by dropdown above the feed, offering Top and Recent, on the desktop homepage. The settings route is the durable one, and LinkedIn states that feed preference edits made in the mobile app apply on desktop too.
I don't want to see this
The three-dot menu on a post hides it and asks why. The person who posted is not told. It is a per-post signal, so it is useful against a topic that has flared up this week and useless against the general drift of the feed.
Unfollow and mute
You can unfollow or mute people, companies and hashtags. Mute is the one to know about, because it stops someone appearing in your feed just because one of your connections reacted to or commented on their post, and a surprising share of LinkedIn arrives that way. To work through what you follow, LinkedIn's route is the My Network icon, then Following and followers.
Unfollowing does not disconnect you. You stay connected, you keep the messaging, and the posts stop arriving.
Where a sort order stops helping
Most recent posts fixes what is in the feed. It does not change that there is a feed, sitting on the screen you land on, refreshing forever, between you and the message you opened the app to send. If your problem is that you meant to spend ten minutes job hunting and spent forty reading takes, a better ordering of those takes is not the answer.
snowscroll opens LinkedIn's website in a browser on your phone with the home feed switched off. Messaging, job search, notifications, your network, company pages and profiles all stay. You sign in once, nothing is installed into LinkedIn, and no setting on your account changes. Feed removal is part of Pro, and everyone gets seven days of it without a card up front.
If you want the feed back for an afternoon, one tap brings it back.
What you give up in a browser
- Push notifications are not supported yet.
- Some posting and creator options are thinner than in the app.
- Media inside messages can be limited.
- The site loads more slowly than the native app.
the parts of snowscroll that are not finished lists all of it, and we update that page rather than waiting for support emails.
When LinkedIn's own setting is the better answer
Genuinely, for a lot of people it is. Set Preferred Feed View to most recent posts, mute the three accounts that keep reaching you through other people's reactions, unfollow a dozen companies, and LinkedIn becomes a quiet tool again with nothing installed.
And if you post regularly, sell, recruit, or spend the working day inside LinkedIn's messaging and creator tools, the app is the right place for that. Stripping the feed out of software you use professionally for eight hours a day is not a trade that makes sense.
Questions
Can you turn the LinkedIn feed off in LinkedIn's own settings?
No. The strongest control LinkedIn offers is Preferred Feed View, which changes the ordering to most recent posts from people you follow. The feed still occupies the home screen.
Where is Preferred Feed View, and does it stay set?
Settings and Privacy, then Account preferences, then General preferences, then Preferred Feed View. LinkedIn says the change is saved automatically and that your feed will always show the view you selected.
Is the mobile sort the same as the desktop one?
LinkedIn documents the Sort by dropdown, Top and Recent, above the feed on the desktop homepage. It also states that feed preference edits made in the mobile app apply on desktop as well, so the settings route is the one to use if you want it to hold everywhere.
Do messages and job search still work in snowscroll?
Yes. Messaging, job search and saved jobs, notifications on the site, your network and profiles all work. Push notifications to your lock screen do not yet.
Will anyone on LinkedIn notice?
No. snowscroll does not post, follow, unfollow or change anything on your account. It decides what loads inside its own browser and nothing more.
Keep going
keeping the phone without keeping the feeds is the wider version of this idea. why we built this explains who is behind it. X without the algorithmic timeline is the closest cousin to this guide. And there is the Android signup page if you are not on iPhone.