LinkedIn gives you no way to withdraw more than one invitation at a time. This walks through the manual method first, so you can decide whether it is worth doing by hand, and then the faster route.
Last updated 18 August 2026
Most people have never seen this screen. From the top bar choose My Network, then Manage next to Invitations, then the Sent tab. The direct link is linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/sent/.
The number there is usually a surprise. Invitations stay pending forever if the other person never answers, so a few years of ordinary networking leaves hundreds sitting there.
Open the Sent tab. Find an invitation. Click Withdraw. A dialog appears asking you to confirm. Click Withdraw again. The row disappears and the list re-renders.
Repeat for every invitation. LinkedIn loads about ten at a time as you scroll, so a long list also means scrolling back down after every few removals.
Two clicks plus the confirmation dialog runs to roughly four seconds per invitation once you have a rhythm. That is about 7 minutes for 100, 27 minutes for 400, and over three hours for 3,000.
It is not difficult work. It is just long, and the page resetting its scroll position is what makes people give up partway.
Whatever method you use, deal with the oldest ones first. An invitation from three years ago is not going to be accepted now, while one from last week might be. LinkedIn shows the age on each row.
A sensible cutoff is anything older than 90 days. Below that, give people a bit longer.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that does the whole list in one run. You open the Sent page, press Start, and it withdraws each invitation and confirms each dialog for you while you do something else.
It handles the scrolling, keeps its place if LinkedIn reloads the page, and stops the moment you tell it to. Three full cleanups are free and a cleanup is unlimited in size, so a backlog of any size can be cleared without paying.
You can also filter by age first, so only invitations older than the cutoff you pick are touched.
Not in LinkedIn itself. There is no multi-select and no bulk action on the Sent invitations page; each one has to be withdrawn individually and confirmed. A browser extension can automate the clicking, which is the only way to do it in one pass.
My Network, then Manage next to Invitations, then the Sent tab. The direct address is linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/sent/.
LinkedIn does not publish one. What matters more is pace: a burst of hundreds of actions in a minute looks automated. Withdrawing at a steady human-like rate avoids that.
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.
Add to Chrome, free