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Choose what people can see on your LinkedIn profile.
Make your professional background easier to find. Choose what you share publicly, check the preview and help your team review their profiles.
Someone may open your LinkedIn profile from an email signature, your company website or a Google search. Public visibility controls the professional details they can see without signing in. Your account has separate settings for browsing, contact information and activity notifications.
Choose what to share, then check the preview.
Choose the professional information you want someone to see when they open your profile without signing in. A name, photo, headline and current role give them a useful introduction.
Edit visibility
Choose the sections shown to people outside LinkedIn or not signed in.
Public profile preview
Belle Beaumont
Current company · Walt
Summary controls the About section. These are selected settings, not the full panel. Signed in members generally see your full profile. LinkedIn may still limit the public preview or ask visitors to sign in. See how public profile visibility works.
The people, company and profile details in these examples are fictional.
Make a public profile a deliberate choice.
Start with your public profile preview
If you want potential customers, candidates or partners to find your professional background through Google or a shared profile link, enable public visibility and select the sections you want to share. Review the preview after changing them.
Why some public details may still be hidden
LinkedIn has a separate Public visibility limits setting. When it is On, LinkedIn may hide some of the fields you allowed on your public profile. Off shows all eligible fields, but also makes them easier for third parties to collect.
Choose the level of exposure you are comfortable with. Review LinkedIn’s public visibility limits.
Check the photo separately. “All LinkedIn members” lets signed in members see it; “Anyone” also allows people outside LinkedIn to see it. Review your profile photo and its visibility.
Search results may take weeks or months to reflect changes. LinkedIn explains why search updates are not immediate.
Other visibility settings worth reviewing
Who sees you when you visit
Profile viewing options control what someone sees in their visitor list. Use “Your name and headline” when you want an identifiable visit. Private mode is a separate choice for research. Review browsing privacy.
Page visit visibility controls whether a company can identify your visit to its Page. Choose this separately from profile viewing options. Review Page visit visibility.
How someone finds or contacts you
Review email visibility and whether connections can download your address. Keep a useful work contact route without exposing personal details. Choose what to show in Contact info.
Email and phone discovery let permitted services match those details to your profile. Off LinkedIn visibility also covers profile information in services such as Outlook. These settings are separate from public search visibility. Review discovery and visibility outside LinkedIn.
What your network hears about
Choose whether LinkedIn announces job and education changes, work anniversaries or news mentions. Routine profile maintenance does not need a network announcement. Review profile update notifications.
Review mentions and tags, who can follow you, and how you represent your organization and interests. Choose the options that fit your participation; they are not requirements for a public profile. Review your Visibility settings.
Help employees check whether their photos are public.
Create your company report in Linkwiz and include your employees’ LinkedIn profiles. Its 19 checks cover Profile, Engagement and Networking. For a public visibility review, start with Profile Photo: is the employee’s picture visible publicly?
The example below shows two employees whose photos are visible and two whose photos need a visibility review. Belle’s selected finding shows what was visible when the profile was reviewed.
Linkwiz · Walt company report · Selected profiles
Which employees have a publicly visible photo?
Belle BeaumontSelected result
Arielle Reed
Peter Panley
Jasmine ValeSelected result · Belle Beaumont
Profile Photo · Optimize
EvidenceThe public profile shows a silhouette instead of Belle’s portrait.
Recommended next stepReview the photo’s visibility setting with Belle; make it public if she is comfortable being recognized outside her network.
Share the finding and this guide with the employee. Ask them to review their photo and public profile preview. The report checks public photo visibility; the other privacy settings in this guide remain choices each person reviews in LinkedIn.
Explore the company report, profile checks and recommended next steps.
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Where to change public profile visibility in LinkedIn
On desktop
Open your profile, then Public profile & URL. In Edit visibility, review Your profile’s public visibility and the sections you want to display. Check the public preview.
In the mobile app
Open Settings, then Visibility and Edit your public profile. Review the public visibility and section settings. Changes are saved automatically.
Public visibility does not guarantee that every visitor sees every allowed field. LinkedIn may ask them to sign in, and search tools refresh results on their own schedule.
Before you move on
- Your public preview shows the professional details you intended to share.
- You checked who can see your profile photo.
- You reviewed browsing, contact and notification settings separately.