Connect LinkedIn
Connect your personal LinkedIn profile, post text, images, video or a PDF carousel, and reconnect when LinkedIn's access expires.
Schedule & Chill posts to your personal LinkedIn profile. Posting to a LinkedIn company page is not available yet — see Platforms that are not available yet.
Connect your profile
- Make sure you are signed in to the right LinkedIn account in this browser.
- In the left menu, click Connected Accounts.
- Under Add a channel, find LinkedIn and click Connect.
- LinkedIn opens. Click Allow.
- You come back and see LinkedIn account connected successfully.
To add a second LinkedIn profile, first switch to that account on LinkedIn, then click Add another.
Reconnect about every 60 days
LinkedIn gives apps access for about 60 days, and it does not let us renew it for you. When the access runs out:
- the channel shows a red Reconnect badge
- you get a notification, and an email if posts are scheduled to it
- scheduled LinkedIn posts fail until you reconnect
Reconnecting takes a few seconds and keeps your history. See Reconnect or disconnect a channel.
What a LinkedIn post can include
- Up to 3,000 characters
- Up to 9 images, or 1 video, or 1 PDF — not a mix
- Alt text on each image, for people using screen readers. Open the image in Media Library and fill in Alt Text.
- A PDF becomes a swipeable document post. It can be up to 300 pages and 100 MB.
First comments are not available on LinkedIn yet. LinkedIn has to approve our access first. When it does, the Add first comment button turns on for LinkedIn.
LinkedIn settings in the composer
Select your LinkedIn channel in Create Post to see these settings:
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Who can see this post | Anyone (public) or Connections only | Anyone (public) |
| Show a link preview card | Builds a preview card from the first link in your caption. LinkedIn does not make one for posts sent by apps, so we make it for you. | On |
| Link card title | The card's title, up to 200 characters | The page's own title |
| Link card description | The card's text, up to 300 characters | The page's own description |
If you add an image or video, it shows instead of the link card.
Tagging people (@mentions)
You cannot tag a person in a LinkedIn post sent by Schedule & Chill. If you type @Jane Smith, LinkedIn publishes those exact characters as plain text.
The reason: LinkedIn only turns a name into a tag when the post carries that person's hidden profile id. An app can only look that id up with a restricted permission LinkedIn gives to a few partners, and even then only for people who follow a company page the app manages. Schedule & Chill does not have that permission.
The composer tells you when a caption has an @mention a LinkedIn channel will drop, so you find out before the post goes out.
What works instead:
- Publish the post, then tag the person in a comment on LinkedIn. Typing
@in a comment searches real profiles. - Write the person's name as normal text and add their profile link.
Hashtags are fine. A plain #hashtag in your caption becomes a real hashtag. Nothing extra is needed.
Analytics
Your LinkedIn posts appear in Analytics without numbers for now. LinkedIn shares post numbers for personal profiles only with apps it has approved for its analytics permission, and Schedule & Chill is not approved yet.
If something goes wrong
| You see | What to do |
|---|---|
| Failed to connect account: LinkedIn OAuth error: … | Try again and click Allow on LinkedIn's screen. |
| This LinkedIn account is missing its member id. Reconnect it. | Reconnect the channel. |
| LinkedIn video did not finish processing within the allowed time | LinkedIn was slow. Retry the post, or use a shorter video. |
| LinkedIn document error: file exceeds LinkedIn's 100MB limit for document posts. | Make the PDF smaller than 100 MB. |
| The wrong LinkedIn account was connected | Disconnect it, switch accounts on LinkedIn, then connect again. |