LinkedIn groups accumulate in two ways: groups you joined and forgot, and groups you asked to join where an admin never answered. Both stay on your account until you remove them yourself.
Last updated 19 August 2026
Your groups are at My Network, then Groups. That page shows the groups you are a member of and, separately, the requests you have sent that are still awaiting approval.
The pending requests are the ones people forget. Many groups are effectively abandoned and no admin will ever approve anything, so the request sits there for years.
Open the group, use the More menu, and choose Leave group. You stop receiving its posts and notifications immediately. Nothing is announced to the other members.
If you rejoin later you may need approval again, depending on how the group is configured.
A pending request has a Withdraw button on the same Groups page. Withdrawing removes it from the admin’s queue and from your account.
There is no bulk control here either. Unpend treats groups and pending group requests as two of its cleanup surfaces, so a page of either can be cleared in one run.
Group posts appear in your feed and generate notifications and email. Ten dormant groups is a noticeable amount of noise for something you get nothing from.
Pending requests are worth clearing simply because they are a record of asking for something and not getting an answer. They are not doing anything for you.
No. Leaving is not announced and there is no member-departure feed.
Nothing. It stays pending indefinitely. LinkedIn does not expire it and does not tell you it was ignored.
Not through LinkedIn. Each one is a menu and a confirmation. An extension such as Unpend can work through the page for you.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that withdraws every pending invitation in a single run, and shows you the network LinkedIn will not. Three full cleanups free, any size, nothing leaves your browser.
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