LinkedIn remains an essential platform for professional networking and job searching, but recent app updates have introduced significant usability issues, particularly with login, stability, and premium feature access, leading to a decline in user satisfaction.
Recent user reviews for LinkedIn highlight a frustrating experience with the mobile app, citing persistent login issues, frequent crashes, and a perceived degradation of features behind paywalls. While many acknowledge its importance for professional networking, the app's current state is hindering user access and overall satisfaction, despite claims of bug fixes in recent developer notes.
What users like
What users complain about
- Login and identity verification process is often impossible or extremely frustratingR1R3R4R5
- App frequently crashes or fails to open, especially after updates or on older devicesR2R8R27R32
- Many features are paywalled or require expensive premium subscriptions, limiting free user functionalityR15R18R20R22
- Excessive and irrelevant notifications are a major annoyance, often difficult to manageR23R36R46R49
- Bugs in comment editing, tagging, and general text input are commonR24R29R38R96
- App design and user experience (UX) are criticized for being cumbersome, un-intuitive, or degradingR21R25R29R34
- Issues with premium subscriptions not being recognized or disappearingR2R13R93
- Customer service is unresponsive or unhelpful, especially for account issuesR2R16R41
Latest update · v9.1.555
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
We want you to have the best possible LinkedIn experience. This update contains bug fixes and improvements to ensure the app’s continued speed and reliability.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
LinkedIn is for professionals seeking to network, find jobs, and build their personal brand R9R66. It is particularly useful for B2B marketers and those looking to connect with industry peers R142. It is NOT for users who are easily frustrated by persistent technical issues, intrusive paywalls, or excessive notifications R1R2R15R23.
Evidence note: The sample of recent reviews skews heavily negative, with a 0.586 recent-negative signal. While positive reviews acknowledge LinkedIn's core value for networking, the overwhelming majority of recent feedback focuses on critical app functionality issues, paywalls, and poor user experience. This contrasts sharply with the high lifetime rating, suggesting a significant recent decline in app quality or user satisfaction.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R9] Stronger connection.: If you feel your gift is dying try LinkedIn, a few connection will reassure you of bring your gift back to life. Is not just connection is a place of hope when your talent is clear.
- [R42] MONSTER: ADVICE: About Career And Life. WHICH: Is My Version of What LINKED IN Is. · translated
- [R43] Happy to have LinkedIn: Since the day one I used this and I am forever grateful.
- [R59] Founder: LinkedIn keeps me connected to my people. It is important to be a part of our community here to assist each other and support one another.
- [R75] Extremely Helpful: Found a job & connected with other professionals with LinkedIn
- [R103] Excellent App: This App has helped me to see all my options and picked the right place to work. I got more than one thousand connections and I value this. Thanks Linked In.
- [R121] Great App Great Platform: I slept on this platform for most of my time as a working adult. Many times thinking I didn’t need it. Man was I wrong! My experience with LinkedIn has been long over due. Why? Why did I wait? Don’t do that. Whether you have a business, you’re in sales, or you drive a fork truck… you need this. Go get it, send me 10% of the increase you experience for listening. lol! Yo
- [R66] PERFECT FOR BUSINESS NETWORKING: The app is perfect for business networking and brand bullding!
- [R142] Professional contacts, news, and updates from around the world.: LinkedIn has helped me connect with B2B marketers across the globe. I use it every day, contributing frequently, and I’ve especially enjoyed their updated video capabilities. It is the leading social network for marketers, especially B2B marketers like me. Keep growing, learning, and connecting with LinkedIn! 🙌
- [R145] Best way to connect!: Love using LinkedIn every single day to find latest from the community!
- [R169] Staying Connected: LinkedIn has helped me stay connected to work friends and to make new connections that turn out to be just as valuable. The networking is a necessary and powerful blessing to my work and career. Also, I just loved seeing what others are doing in the world.
- [R1] Not a robot: I haven’t logged in to LinkedIn in years. Trying to login seems impossible. The “not a robot” prompts are apparently too difficult for me to understand. Mark all boxes with busses. If a bus bleeds over to another square does that count as a square? Tried both ways and still I fail it. Try the audio version. Am I supposed to put spaces between the words? Try both ways and still fail. H
- [R3] Problematic & Evasive: Sign in process can be outlandishly time consuming and ID requirements can be shockingly invasive.
- [R4] CANT SIGN IN: It won’t let me sign in. I’m being led in circles. To approve a sign in, I have to “follow steps in your LinkedIn app” well I can’t. I’m trying to sign into the app. To sign in it says it will send an email to verify myself, in that email, it says “We noticed you recently tried to sign in to your Linkedin account from a new device. You can finish signing in to your LinkedIn account b
- [R5] Janky barely works: The app barely works. Spent 10 mins on one recaptch only to find out it was stuck in a loop
- [R2] Once I paid, it crashes every time I open it: Once I upgraded to premium. Every time I open the app on my iPad it prompts me for an update. And doesn't allow me to do anything. I click update. Which brings up the App Store. Asking me to open the app. And it starts all over again, prompting me for the update. I've deleted the app. Reinstalled the app. I can do nothing on LinkedIn. Because all I get
- [R8] Fails to open: This app closes after the startup screen. Sometimes it works.
- [R27] Broken: When the app will load up it’s pretty good. Unfortunately, whenever I click on a notification the app doesn’t open and crashed during loading. Also, the app only opens about 20% of the time when I try to open it from my home screen.
- [R32] Unfair blocking: Unnecessary POPUP that blocks a paid customer who can’t download latest app . That POPUP does not neeeeed to block people who paid but don’t have the correct iPhone to download the latest LinkedIn app !
- [R15] Cannot Access Certain Features Unless You Pay: I can no longer extensively browse people through search because I have to pay in order to look at more than 5 people but I can't afford to pay for the monthly or yearly membership as it's ridiculously priced. I understand how Premium makes sense for the job application process but everyone should have unlimited access to the search capabilities.
- [R18] Used to be good, makes you pay money for nothing now: Cool concept but LinkedIn like other platforms has succumbed to paid tiers. The app handicaps you unless you pay monthly.
- [R20] Absolute scam: Do not pay for premium, will flood your inbox, generate no leads or pointless offers, and won’t let you easily unsubscribe. Don’t download or subscribe. Go to indeed.
- [R22] Full of hidden charges: This app is full of tricks to scam you and steal your money. Don’t engage with any premium subscriptions.
- [R23] spammy notifications even after I tried to turn them off: i dont want to connect with another AI implementayion coach and I don’t want my phone to buzz to ask me whether I want to connect with an ai inplementation coach
- [R36] Great Job Hunting App, Besides All the Spam: A phenomenal job board app hindered by its endless spam content.
- [R46] App concept and execution are great but the amount of notifications should be criminal: I could not understand why I was getting flooded with random summaries and updates constantly so I went to check- they had added several dozen individual controls for turning off notifications. It took me 15 to 20 minutes to turn them all off. That was a cheap trick I don’t appreciate.
- [R49] Endless recruiter spam: I’m about ready to delete my LinkedIn profile. How is it that I can have my email address hidden from all but my direct contacts yet recruiters I’m not linked to can discover my email and profile and send me nonstop, relentless spam? I’ve now completely locked down every privacy setting. Let’s see if that helps. Be aware that if you create a LinkedIn profile you will get a
- [R24] Comments are buggy: Cursor jumps to the end of text when attempting to revise comments on a post, no matter where it is placed. Tagging more than one user in comments also fails.
- [R29] Love LinkedIn, Hate the App: Nothing but problems with the App for the last 3 years on both of my iPads. Please fix the text-entry user-locked-out issues. Thanks. LinkedIn is awesome - deserves a much better App than this.
- [R38] Impossible!: It’s a horrible app! I wish I could attach a screen capture. There is simply no place to press “enter” on a comment. I have been struggling this with this now for 2-3 weeks. If I type more than 5 lines in a comment, the option to send the message disappears.
- [R96] Great app, but it froze: The interface is pretty good, but it froze when I was trying to edit a comment. I had to shut down the app, reopen, and search for my comment to edit, which was a bit of an headache.
- [R21] Impossible to find saved jobs on app: No option to find saved jobs on the app, must use PC for this feature seems overly cumbersome
- [R25] Essential but Awful Functionality: This site is almost essential when it comes to networking. However, the mobile app is absolutely abysmal when it comes to making posts and repost with your own writings. If anything takes you away from the app momentarily while drafting something, if you go back in, you will lose everything that you’ve written. It will take you back to your default refreshed feed
- [R34] New layout: Hate the new location of the notifications into this tiny bell at the top of the screen.
- [R13] Bad app: Too expensive and doesn’t work even when you pay.
- [R93] Lost my Premium membership: I just paid $42 with taxes for a monthly premium subscription on June 12, 2026 and should have premium until July 12th but for some reason my premium subscription is gone from my account on LinkedIn but it still shows as active in my subscriptions on my phone. That’s a lot of money for a subscription for it just to disappear.
- [R16] Customer Service about hacked Account: I tried to Get my account back multiple times after finding out my account was Hijacked and now being impersonated, And now the LinkedIn customer service is just ignoring my plead, so if this doesn’t get resolved or have my Number Changed to my Actual number 1386, I Will personally File a Lawsuit For Discrimination Against My Data
- [R41] Trapping users: This platform claims to help job seekers, but in reality, they trap you. I was looking for a monthly plan to support my job hunt, but accidentally chosen annual one , so they automatically renewed it for a whole year . Taking $257,27 all at once out of my budget is a huge and very painful hit for me right now. I am currently out of work and this money is critical for my family. Whe
- [R10] Extremely slow application: Loading pages and editing my info takes too long which is super frustrating because I like the concept behind the app. This happens on both the website and app. I’d suggest having someone look into fixing this issue.
- [R12] Verification process: The verification process is tedious and useless. I’ve spent over an hour trying to log into MY account, change password, etc. Nothing works. Please fix this, there are so many verification options and recaptcha is unreliable.
- [R48] App keeps crashing: App keeps crashing
- [R30] Pricing: The pricing of linkedin is insanely higher than it used to be. I can’t consider this a good platform for connections due to that alone. It’s just a platform for the rich and businesses.
- [R51] Spam emails galore: LinkedIn spams you every few minutes with emails.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store