How to Hide the LinkedIn Feed and Still Use LinkedIn
Short answer: LinkedIn has no setting to remove the feed. Unfollowing your connections helps less than you'd expect, because a large share of what you see is suggested rather than followed. Hiding the feed leaves search, messages, jobs, notifications and every profile working normally.
LinkedIn is the clearest case of a feed you didn't come for. People open it to check a company, message someone, or apply for a job — and leave twenty minutes later having read opinions from strangers.
Unfollowing barely dents it
You can unfollow a connection while staying connected — LinkedIn supports this properly, and it's a reasonable thing to do to the three people posting six times a day.
But it doesn't empty the feed, because LinkedIn fills it with:
- posts your connections reacted to, rather than wrote
- suggested posts from people you don't follow
- promoted posts
On LinkedIn, "who you follow" is an input to the feed, not a description of it.
That's why the unfollow-everyone approach that empties a Facebook feed doesn't work here.
What you actually lose by hiding it
Nothing you came for. With the feed hidden, LinkedIn keeps:
- search, profiles and company pages
- messages and connection requests
- notifications, including who viewed you
- jobs, applications and saved searches
- posting, if you post
What you lose is the scroll — and, honestly, the incidental discovery. If your feed is where you spot industry news, that's a real trade. The middle position is hiding the main feed while leaving notifications alone, so anything addressed to you still surfaces.
The news sidebar counts too
LinkedIn News sits in the right rail with the day's headlines. It's a second, smaller feed. Hiding the main feed and leaving that one is the LinkedIn version of quitting cigarettes and keeping the ashtray full.
CleanFeed hides the LinkedIn feed and the news sidebar, on separate switches, and does the same on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and X. Free, no account, and reversible from the toolbar whenever you want the feed back.