How to find your LinkedIn URL on any device in 2026
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Someone just asked for your profile link, and you’re staring at a screen full of options. Learning how to find your LinkedIn URL takes less than a minute once you know where to look. Open LinkedIn, go to your profile, and click Edit public profile & URL in the top-right panel. Your custom link sits right there, ready to copy.
That speed matters when the average user spends just 17 minutes a month on the platform. You don’t want to waste any of them hunting through menus.
This guide walks you through grabbing your LinkedIn URL on desktop and mobile, customizing it, and fixing the common snags that trip people up.
Locating your public profile URL on desktop
Finding your public profile URL on desktop takes four clicks. Start by clicking your profile photo in the top-right navigation bar, then select View profile from the dropdown. That lands you on your own profile page, where the URL you want lives one panel away.
Look to the right side of the screen. You’ll see an Edit public profile & URL button near the top-right corner. Click it. LinkedIn opens a dedicated settings page built around one job: managing how your profile appears in search and what your link looks like.
Your profile url sits in the upper-right box, labeled “Edit your custom URL.” It reads as something like linkedin.com/in/name. Hover over it, and a small copy icon appears. Click that icon to grab the full link, or highlight the text manually and copy it.
What the URL should look like
A clean LinkedIn URL follows a simple pattern:
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linkedin.com/in/firstname-lastname for most personal accounts
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linkedin.com/in/firstname-lastname-123 when your name is already taken
If yours still shows a string of random numbers and letters after your name, that’s the default LinkedIn assigns. You can fix it on the same screen, which the customizing section covers in detail.
Grab that link and you’ve got something you’ll reuse constantly. Dropping your LinkedIn URL on a resume is a professional way of letting companies and HR teams look you up, and it saves them the hassle of searching your name among a hundred matches.
The whole path, from photo to copied URL, runs about a minute. Once it’s in your clipboard, paste it anywhere you want people to find you.
Getting your LinkedIn URL from the mobile app
Away from your desk? The mobile app gets you to the same link, and it takes about as long as finding a pen. Open LinkedIn on your phone and sign in.
Tap your profile photo in the top-left corner. That opens your profile view. Look for the three-dot icon (the “more” menu) near your name, and tap it.
From the menu, choose Share profile. LinkedIn drops your public URL onto the clipboard and shows a share sheet, so you can paste it into a message or send it straight through another app. That is the whole trick.
iOS vs. android wording
The steps match across both platforms, but the labels do not always line up word for word. On iPhone the option often reads Share via, while Android tends to say Copy link to profile outright. If you are looking for the exact phrase and cannot find it, tap through the more menu anyway. The copy action lives there under one of those two names.
One practical detail: the share sheet uses your phone’s native apps, so your link flows into Messages, WhatsApp, or email without a second copy step. Handy when you meet someone and want your profile in their inbox before the conversation ends.
The mobile route shines during live networking. You are at an event, someone asks for your LinkedIn, and you hand it over on the spot instead of promising to “send it later.” That follow-up almost never happens, so real-time sharing wins.
If the three-dot menu is hiding a shortened or auto-generated address, you can clean it up later from a browser. Personalizing the slug is a desktop job, covered further down. For now, you have a working link ready to paste anywhere.
Editing and personalizing your LinkedIn profile URL
Your default LinkedIn URL is a mix of numbers and letters that LinkedIn assigns automatically. Fixing it takes under a minute, and it’s the fastest visual upgrade you can make to your profile.
Editing your URL
Open your profile and look for the Edit public profile & URL panel on the right side of the page. Click the pencil icon next to your current link, and LinkedIn opens an editable field where you can type a new custom URL.
Aim for something close to linkedin.com/in/firstname-lastname. LinkedIn caps how long the custom slug can be, so long hyphenated names may need trimming. Drop middle names, extra initials, or filler words to fit inside that limit.
Cleaning up numbers and country codes
Default URLs often end in a string like -4a or -a1b2c3, plus a country code such as -in or -uk tacked on the end. None of that helps a recruiter or client remember your link.
Delete the trailing digits and the country code entirely. A clean linkedin.com/in/janedoe reads better on a resume, business card, or email signature than linkedin.com/in/janedoe-4a2b19-in.
When your name is already taken
Common names get claimed fast. If janedoe is gone, don’t settle for a random number suffix. Add a middle name, a professional credential, or your role instead, like linkedin.com/in/janedoe-cpa or linkedin.com/in/jane-marie-doe. This keeps the link readable and still recognizably you, rather than looking like an autogenerated leftover.
Skip the shortener
Once your URL looks clean, resist the urge to run it through a link shortener before sharing it. URL shortening services like Bitly strip out the linkedin.com domain, replacing it with a generic or branded short link. That hides the platform recognition your profile link is supposed to carry, and it makes the destination less obvious to anyone deciding whether to click. A direct LinkedIn link builds instant trust, a shortened one just adds a layer of doubt.
Personal profiles vs. LinkedIn company page URLs
A personal profile and a company page look similar in the address bar, but they live in different places. Personal profiles use the /in/name format. Company pages use /company/name. That single word after the slash tells LinkedIn (and any human reading the link) which type of entity you’re pointing to.
The distinction matters when you paste a link into a job post, an email signature, or a pitch deck. A /company/ link lands visitors on the brand hub with the logo, follower count, and open roles. A /in/ link drops them on a person. Mixing them up sends people to the wrong place.
Editing a company page URL
Changing a company page url works differently from personalizing your own slug, and the permission wall is the first thing people hit. Only page admins can edit it. If you’re not listed as an admin, LinkedIn won’t show you the option at all, so start by confirming your role.
Once you have access, the path is short:
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Open your company page and click Admin tools in the top-right.
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Select Page info.
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Find the public URL field and edit the slug.
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Save.
That’s the whole flow for editing a page address.
One structural rule trips people up. A company page URL can’t carry the trailing number suffix you sometimes see on personal profiles. Those digits exist to keep human names unique when thousands of people share one. Companies get a clean, name-only slug, so aim for something tight like /company/acme-analytics rather than a padded variant.
When you change a company page URL, update it across your site, ads, and directory listings, the same way you’d update a personal link. One link, infinitely shareable.
Fixing a missing or hidden LinkedIn URL
If your LinkedIn URL won’t show up in search results or on your resume, the fix almost always lives in one place: Settings & Privacy > Visibility > Edit your public profile. This panel controls whether your profile is discoverable at all, separate from the custom URL you may have already claimed.
Check your public profile visibility
Open your profile, click Edit public profile & URL in the right-hand panel, and look at the visibility toggle on that page. If it’s switched to Off, your profile is essentially invisible outside your logged-in connections, and the URL you copy won’t resolve for anyone else who clicks it.
Toggle it On, and confirm the sections you want public (headline, experience, education) are checked below the switch. LinkedIn saves this instantly, so there’s no publish step to forget.
Why “private mode” breaks the link
Private mode does something specific: it blocks search engines like Google from indexing your profile page. Your URL still technically exists, but it won’t surface in a recruiter’s search, and clicking a shared link may prompt a login wall instead of showing your public page. This is the most common reason someone swears their LinkedIn link “doesn’t work” when the real issue is a visibility setting they toggled months ago and forgot about.
Incomplete profiles may not have a public link yet
New or barely-filled-out profiles sometimes don’t generate a public URL at all. LinkedIn needs a minimum of profile data, generally a name, photo, and at least one experience entry, before it activates the public-facing version of your page. If you just created your account, add your current role and headline first, then revisit the URL settings.
Run through this checklist if your link still isn’t working:
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Confirm you’re logged in and viewing your own profile, not a cached version
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Go to Settings & Privacy > Visibility > Edit your public profile and set visibility to On
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Check that the profile sections you want visible are toggled on in the same panel
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Fill in at least a headline and one work experience entry if you’re on a brand-new account
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Refresh the page, then copy the URL directly from the address bar or the Edit public profile & URL panel
Once visibility is on and the profile has enough content to qualify as “public,” the URL will resolve correctly for anyone you share it with.
Sharing your profile instantly with a QR code
Open the LinkedIn app and tap the search bar at the top of the screen. Next to it sits a small QR icon, and tapping it opens your scanner and code screen in one step.
Finding your personal code
Once the scanner opens, switch to the My Code tab. This displays your personal LinkedIn QR code, generated from your profile and ready to scan the moment someone points a camera at it. Tap the code and it expands to fill the screen, which makes it easier to hold steady for someone scanning from across a table or a booth.
Anyone who scans it lands directly on your profile, no typing your name or hunting through search results required. That’s the entire exchange: open, tap, scan, connect.
Saving it for offline use
Screenshot the code or use the save option in the app to keep a copy in your camera roll. Once saved, you’re not tied to opening LinkedIn every time you want to share it.
A saved QR code works anywhere you’d normally hand someone a business card. Print it on an event badge, drop it into a flyer, or add it to the last slide of a deck. Once it’s an image file, you can place it anywhere your printed materials already put a website link or contact number.
Putting your LinkedIn URL to work everywhere
A LinkedIn URL only earns its keep when people actually see it. Drop it into every place someone might look you up, and format it to match the medium.
On your resume
Place your URL in the contact block at the top, next to your phone number and email. Skip the hyperlink text and just show the clean custom slug, something like linkedin.com/in/taylor-reyes-pm, so it reads fine on a printed copy or a scanned PDF. Recruiters scan that header in seconds, and a tidy, memorable slug signals you’ve bothered to clean up your profile.
In your email signature
Your signature is high-traffic real estate. Every reply, every cold outreach, every internal memo carries it. Make the LinkedIn text a clickable hyperlink rather than pasting the raw address, and keep the visible label short, like “Connect on LinkedIn,” so the signature doesn’t run long. One click should land the recipient straight on your profile, no copy-pasting required.
On business cards and printed materials
Print is the one place your URL has to work without a click. Strip the https:// and www entirely and show only the custom slug in a legible weight, since nobody types a full protocol off a card by hand. A short, human-readable link also looks more polished under your name than a string of forward slashes.
In portfolios, personal sites, and author bios
Anywhere you publish under your own name, your LinkedIn URL belongs in the same lineup as your other links. Add it to the footer of a personal site, the “about” panel of a portfolio, or the byline of a guest article. Editors and hiring managers checking an author bio expect that link to sit right there, next to your site and, if relevant, a GitHub or Behance profile.
Keep the destination worth visiting
A link is only as good as what it points to. If your LinkedIn profile or personal site hasn’t changed in months, the click ends flat no matter how many places you posted the URL. Treat your site’s content the same way you treat your profile summary: something you revisit and update on a schedule, not a page you finish once and forget.
Your LinkedIn URL, one click away
Everything you need sits in one place: Edit public profile & URL settings. That panel holds your profile url, the address that points anyone straight to your LinkedIn presence. Open it, and the link is right there waiting.
The action from here is simple. Copy that URL and paste it where people already look for you. Your resume header. Your email signature. The bio line on your portfolio site or a conference speaker page. Once you know where the setting lives, grabbing the link takes seconds, not a scavenger hunt through menus.
Put it to work today
Pick one spot and do it now. A resume is the highest-leverage choice, since a recruiter reading your PDF can jump to your full work history without retyping your name into a search bar. That single hyperlink turns a static document into a live connection.
Think about the reach. The same URL works on a business card, in a Slack intro, on a Twitter/X profile, or inside a client proposal. You set it once and it keeps performing. One link, infinitely shareable.
Here is the move most people miss: paste your link into an incognito window before you publish it anywhere. You will see exactly what a stranger sees, which confirms your profile is public and the address resolves cleanly. Broken links kill credibility fast.
That is the whole job. Your LinkedIn URL is not hidden or complicated, it just lives in a settings panel you now know how to reach. Grab it, personalize it if you want a cleaner handle, and drop it into the places your audience already checks.
Do it today while the steps are fresh. The link that took you a minute to find will keep sending people to your profile for years, no extra effort required.
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Frequently asked questions
How do i find my LinkedIn URL on desktop and mobile?
On desktop, go to your profile, click Edit public profile & URL in the top-right panel, and copy the link shown. On mobile, tap your profile photo, then the three-dot icon, and choose Share profile to copy or send your LinkedIn URL directly from the app.
How can i customize my LinkedIn profile URL?
Open your public profile settings and click the pencil icon next to your URL. Enter a custom slug using your name, without spaces or symbols, staying within LinkedIn’s character limit. If your name is taken, add a middle name or profession to create a unique, memorable link.
Why can’t i see my LinkedIn public profile URL?
Your URL may be hidden because your public profile visibility is turned off. Go to Settings > Visibility > Edit your public profile and toggle it on. Incomplete profiles sometimes don’t generate a public link until you’ve filled in the required sections.
What is the difference between a personal and company LinkedIn URL?
Personal profile URLs follow the format linkedin.com/in/your-name and are editable by you. Company page URLs follow linkedin.com/company/company-name and can only be changed by page admins through the Admin tools and Page info settings.
How do i share my LinkedIn profile using a QR code?
In the LinkedIn app, tap the search bar and select the QR code icon. Switch to the My Code tab to view your personal code, then screenshot or save it to share on business cards, event badges, or printed materials.
How do i add my LinkedIn URL to my resume or email signature?
Place your custom LinkedIn URL near your contact information at the top of your resume so it’s easy to spot. In your email signature, insert it as a clickable hyperlink rather than plain text so recipients can reach your profile in one click.
Can i change my LinkedIn URL more than once?
Yes, LinkedIn lets you edit your custom URL again later through the same Edit public profile & URL panel, though older custom links stop working once you switch to a new one, so update it everywhere it’s been shared.
What should i do if my preferred LinkedIn URL is taken?
Try variations like adding your middle name, a hyphen, your profession, or your location to your name. LinkedIn won’t reserve a name for you, so pick an alternative that still reads clearly and professionally once shortened.
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