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title: Connect LinkedIn
description: Connect your personal LinkedIn profile, post text, images, video or a PDF carousel, and reconnect when LinkedIn's access expires.
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# Connect LinkedIn

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](/help/channels/not-available-yet).

## Connect your profile

1. Make sure you are signed in to the right LinkedIn account in this browser.
2. In the left menu, click **Connected Accounts**.
3. Under **Add a channel**, find **LinkedIn** and click **Connect**.
4. LinkedIn opens. Click **Allow**.
5. 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](/help/channels/fix-or-disconnect).

## What a LinkedIn post can include

- Up to **3,000 characters**
- Up to **9 images**, or **1 video**, or **1 PDF** — not a mix
- A PDF becomes a swipeable document post. It can be up to 300 pages and 100 MB.
- A **first comment**, posted right after the post

## 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.

## Analytics

LinkedIn does not share post numbers (likes, comments, views) for personal profiles with apps. Your LinkedIn posts appear in [Analytics](/help/analytics) without numbers. This is a LinkedIn rule and will not fill in later.

## 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. |