How to request a merge for duplicate LinkedIn personal accounts

If you found two personal profiles with your information, first confirm which one you will keep and download the duplicate’s data. Then you can request a merge from LinkedIn, knowing what transfers and what stays behind.

Confirm which profile is the primary one

Search for your name on LinkedIn while signed in to the account you want to keep. LinkedIn identifies that account with the You icon; a profile with your information and no You icon may be the duplicate. Confirm that both are your personal profiles, not company Pages or someone else’s profile.

LinkedIn requires the primary email addresses on both accounts to be confirmed and says you need access to both. Note each profile’s URL and check its connection count. If you find only one profile, do not close an account based only on an email-already-in-use message: LinkedIn lists other possible causes, including recycled addresses and canonical email forms.

If you forgot the duplicate’s password, recover access first. If you are not sure which email you registered with, try all possible addresses linked to the account, including current or former work, school, or personal addresses, and variations of those addresses. If you remember the email address but can no longer access it, follow the identity verification process in LinkedIn’s official duplicate account help.

Download your data and review what does not merge

Before requesting a merge, download a copy of the data from the profile you plan to close. LinkedIn says the merge transfers only that account’s connections and email address; its other data is purged.

Profile content (written or media), edits, endorsements, recommendations, saved articles, group memberships, and pending invitations do not transfer. The merged account also loses its InMail credits.

Before continuing, handle anything that applies to either account: cancel Premium, outstanding job postings or listings, and advertising campaigns; cancel upcoming events if you are the organizer; and close or transfer groups you own.

Request the merge from LinkedIn

LinkedIn does not describe an instant merge button. It says to contact support with both profile URLs and have the sign-in credentials for both accounts available.

Open LinkedIn’s official contact page and follow its current instructions. The credentials are for signing in to each account: never write or send passwords to support. Provide the profile URLs and only the information the form requests. The help page does not publish a completion timeframe.

If one account has zero connections

LinkedIn says accounts with zero connections and accounts with more than 30,000 connections cannot be merged. If one account has zero, do not request a merge: confirm again that it is the duplicate and download its data before closing it.

To close that account separately, sign in to it and open Me → Settings & Privacy → Account preferences → Account management. Select Change next to Close account and follow the prompts. After closing the account, wait 48 hours before adding its email address to the account you will keep. This wait applies to reusing the email after closure, not to a merge.

If an account has more than 30,000 connections, LinkedIn says it cannot be merged; do not assume the form offers another route.

Check the result

When LinkedIn replies, sign in to the profile you meant to keep and confirm that you can access it, the transferred connections appear, and the expected email is associated. Do not expect recommendations, endorsements, profile content, groups, or invitations to move. Sending the request does not confirm that the merge is complete.

Check LinkedIn’s current requirements in its help for merging or closing duplicate accounts.