If you have sent hundreds of connection requests that were never accepted, clearing them one by one is an exhausting waste of an afternoon. Here is how to bulk withdraw pending LinkedIn invitations safely.
Last updated 14 October 2026
Months of sales prospecting, recruiting, or job hunting leave behind a trail of unanswered connection requests. Although LinkedIn automatically expires requests after six months, waiting half a year ties up your account's weekly allowance.
Stale invitations also block you from sending a revised, more relevant message to high-value prospects.
Automated extensions that blast hundreds of API requests in seconds or scrape data in the background violate LinkedIn's User Agreement and trigger account restrictions.
Safe bulk withdrawal requires human-like pacing (a hard maximum of 25 actions per minute), natural delays, automatic back-off on rate limits, and 100% browser-local execution.
Open the extension popup while viewing the Sent invitations page. Select an age filter, such as "Older than 60 days" or "Older than 90 days", to ensure recent invitations are untouched.
When an age filter is selected, Unpend automatically scans from newest to oldest to reach your cutoff rapidly without infinite scrolling.
During the run, live counters display actions completed today, this run, and all-time. Once the run completes, an optional audio chime plays.
Simply refresh the LinkedIn page (F5) to verify that LinkedIn's server count matches your new, cleaned total.
Actions should never exceed 25 per minute, with randomized intervals between clicks and automatic halts if a verification checkpoint is encountered.
Yes. You can filter by age in the popup for automated removal, or load your entire list into the Network Manager table to select specific rows manually.
Unpend includes 150 free actions every month, renewing on the 1st of each month with no credit card required.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that withdraws every pending invitation in a single run, and shows you the network LinkedIn will not. 150 free actions a month, nothing leaves your browser.
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