The reason network cleanup feels impossible is not the clicking. It is that you cannot see the list. Once every connection is in a sortable table, most of the hard questions become one query.
Last updated 19 August 2026
Who did I connect with in 2019? Which of my connections work at a company I no longer deal with? How many recruiters are in here? LinkedIn’s own search is built for finding people you do not know, not for querying the network you already have.
There is no screen anywhere in the product that lists your connections in a form you can sort.
In the Network Manager, the search box matches against name, company and headline text at once. Typing a company name surfaces everyone whose headline mentions it; typing "founder" or "recruiter" surfaces a role.
Because it matches headline text, it finds people by what they do rather than only by where they work, which is usually the more useful question.
Sort by connection date to find the oldest part of your network, which is usually the part with the least ongoing value. Filter by type to work on one view at a time: connections, sent invitations, follows, groups.
A date range can also be applied to a cleanup run directly, so a rule can be "anything I sent more than six months ago" without any selection at all.
A filter you use often can be kept and reapplied in one click, so a quarterly tidy is not a matter of rebuilding the same query every time.
Name the people and companies that must never be touched, and every bulk action skips them automatically, in the table and in the popup. It is the safety net that makes a large selection comfortable to act on.
Not in LinkedIn itself. In Unpend’s Network Manager the search box matches name, company and headline together.
Yes, by the date you connected, which is the fastest way to find the oldest and least relevant part of a network.
A list of people and companies that every bulk action skips automatically, so a large selection cannot catch someone who matters.
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