Canceling pending connection requests is essential for keeping your outreach measurable and freeing up contacts for future networking. Here is how to cancel invitations across desktop, mobile, and in bulk.
Last updated 14 October 2026
Navigate to My Network in the top navigation bar, click Manage next to Invitations, and select the Sent tab.
Click Withdraw next to any recipient and confirm the popup dialog. Because LinkedIn re-renders the list after each confirmation, manual withdrawal takes roughly 4 seconds per person.
Open the mobile app and tap the My Network tab at the bottom. Tap Invitations, then select the Sent tab at the top.
Tap Withdraw on any pending request. LinkedIn does not require a second confirmation dialog on mobile, but scrolling through hundreds of entries on a small screen remains tedious.
LinkedIn provides no native "Select All" or "Withdraw All" button on either desktop or mobile. Clearing a backlog of 500 invitations by hand requires over half an hour of repetitive clicking.
A Chrome extension like Unpend executes the real withdrawal clicks directly on the Sent page in your browser. It includes 150 free actions per month and conservative pacing capped at 25 actions per minute.
The invitation immediately disappears from the recipient's incoming invitation manager. No notification or email is sent to them.
LinkedIn imposes a cooldown period of up to 3 weeks before you can send a new invitation to that same person, preventing instant retry spam.
No. LinkedIn does not offer a select-all or bulk-cancellation feature on either the web platform or the mobile app.
No. LinkedIn never notifies a user that a sent invitation has been canceled or withdrawn.
LinkedIn enforces a cooldown of up to three weeks after an invitation is withdrawn to protect members from repeated, unwanted requests.
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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