Change or add your email address on LinkedIn
When you created your LinkedIn profile, you specified an email address. This is your primary email address. You log in with this e-mail address and you receive all your notifications from LinkedIn at this address.
Why do you change your email address or add your email addresses?
- You want to be found on your current email address
- You have a new job with associated new email address
- You want to connect with colleagues and relations who have an old e-mail address of yours
- You have a new email address
- Your email address has changed
- Just because you can :-)
If you have multiple email addresses or you want to change your email address then you will walk through the following steps.
- Click on the icon at the top of the LinkedIn home page Me/Me.
- Select Settings and privacy In the drop-down menu.
- Click below the section Basic data of the Tab Accountand click on Change next to E-mail addresses.
- Click on Add e-mail address and enter the new e-mail address you want to add to your LinkedIn account.
- Click on Send Verification.
- Enter your LinkedIn password. You will then receive a confirmation on your new email address.
- Open the email and follow the instructions in the email to confirm your new address.
- If you wish, you can use your new e-mail address as your primary e-mail address. You will then return to the E-mail addresses on your page LinkedIn settings. Next to the added e-mail address, click on Primary creation.
- From this moment on, your new email address is your primary email address. You log in now with this address. You will also receive all communication from LinkedIn at this email address.
More information about changing your e-mail addresses Read on LinkedIn.
