How to Edit or Delete Existing LinkedIn Recommendations

You may decide that you don’t want to display all of your LinkedIn Recommendations. Fortunately, you can edit or remove the Recommendations you’ve written at any time, and you can hide or request revisions to those you receive.

To edit or remove a Recommendation you’ve made, follow these steps.

Click the + next to the Profile link and select Recommendations.

The Recommendations page will appear with three tabs to choose from: Received, Sent and Request Recommendations.

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Click on Sent Recommendations.

All of the Recommendations you’ve made are listed in reverse chronological order, as shown here. You can narrow the list down by clicking the link for Colleagues, Service Providers, Business Partners, or Students below the header Manage Recommendations You’ve Sent.

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Click Edit next to the Recommendation you want to change or remove.

You are taken to the Edit Recommendations screen, as shown here. You can update some of the Relationship choices, like Basis of the Recommendation, your title at the time, or update your Recommendation text.

Edit the Recommendation and click Send.

Alternatively, you can click Withdraw This Recommendation.

If you edit a Recommendation, it is submitted to the recipient again for approval. If you remove it, it comes off immediately, and the recipient (or is that the unrecipient?) doesn’t receive any notification.

You can change the Basis of the Recommendation field, which describes the exact relationship, such as whether you worked in the same department, or one of you was subordinate to the other. However, you can’t change the type of Recommendation, for example, Colleague versus Service Provider versus Business Partner. If you need to do so, you have to remove the current Recommendation and write a new one, choosing the appropriate option.