How to Hide the LinkedIn Messaging Popup

Every LinkedIn page comes with a passenger: the messaging window, docked in the bottom corner, following you from feed to profile to job listing. Collapse it and it's still there. Notification badges light up while you're trying to read. It's a chat app you never asked to keep open, permanently pinned to your screen.

What LinkedIn's settings can and can't do

LinkedIn does offer partial relief. In messaging settings you can disable sounds, and the chat panel can be collapsed. What you cannot do is remove the docked bar itself. Collapsed or not, it sits in the corner with its badge, doing what badges do: pulling your eyes.

There's no "hide messaging" option. The popup is an engagement surface — every glance at the badge is a potential session extension — so LinkedIn has no incentive to let you remove it.

Hiding it yourself

The messaging dock looks like an easy element to hide with a custom style rule. Sometimes it is — for whichever version of LinkedIn you happened to write the rule against.

LinkedIn runs multiple front-end versions in parallel (a React interface and legacy markup) and A/B tests constantly, so the messaging component isn't a single stable target. A hand-written rule keys on one variant; when LinkedIn serves another, the popup reappears. People who go this route end up re-fixing their fix every few weeks, usually right after they stopped paying attention.

Removing it properly

In LinkFeed Pro, hiding the messenger is one toggle — and it stays hidden because the extension detects which LinkedIn front-end you're on and applies the right pattern for that version. LinkedIn redesigns; the extension adapts.

It's a free feature. No account needed:

1. Install LinkFeed Pro (Chrome, Edge or Firefox)
2. Open LinkedIn
3. Enable "Hide messenger" in the popup

The dock disappears from every page. Your messages still exist — you just read them when you decide to, from the messaging page, instead of being pinged mid-paragraph.

Important nuance: you're not missing anything

Hiding the popup doesn't delete messages, mark anything as read, or change your availability. The full messaging page (linkedin.com/messaging) works exactly as before. You're choosing when to check messages instead of having them ambient on every page. For most people that's the difference between LinkedIn as a tool and LinkedIn as a tab they're afraid to open.

FAQ

Will people see me as offline? The extension doesn't touch your account state or active status — it hides the popup in your browser. Your messaging settings stay whatever you set them to.

Can I still get message notifications? Yes, through LinkedIn's normal notification system (bell icon, emails, mobile app) according to your settings. Only the docked chat window is hidden.

Can I bring it back temporarily? One toggle. Off, on, off again — instant, no reload required.

What else can I remove for free? The sidebars and the "Start a post" box. See the full guide to a distraction-free LinkedIn.