Guide

How to use LinkedIn without the feed

LinkedIn is supposed to be for work: messages, jobs, your network, the occasional update from someone you actually know. But the home feed has turned into engagement bait, hot takes, humblebrags, and suggested posts, and it's easy to lose twenty minutes you meant to spend job hunting. Here's how to use LinkedIn with the feed gone, while the professional parts stay right where they are.

Why the LinkedIn feed pulls you off task

The home feed is the one part of LinkedIn built like a social feed: ranked for engagement, refreshed endlessly, and full of posts from people and pages you never chose. The genuinely useful parts, messages, jobs, your network, are tools you use with intent. The feed is the thing that turns a quick check into a scroll, and it sits right on the home screen.

Turn off the feed without losing LinkedIn

snowscroll is a calm browser for iPhone that opens LinkedIn with the feeds you choose switched off. You sign in once and use it the way you always have, except the home feed isn't there to pull you off task. Nothing is installed into LinkedIn and your account isn't touched. It all runs in a browser on your device, so snowscroll never sees your login or your activity.

What stays, and what goes

Gone: the home feed, the engagement-ranked stream of posts you didn't ask for.

Stays: your messages, job search, notifications, your network and connections, and profiles. You keep LinkedIn as a work tool. You lose the part that wastes the time.

How to start

1. Download snowscroll free from the App Store.
2. Open LinkedIn inside snowscroll and sign in once.
3. Switch the home feed off. Turn it back on anytime you actually want it.

Questions

Can you use LinkedIn without the feed?

Yes. snowscroll opens LinkedIn in a calm browser with the home feed switched off, so there's no endless scroll when you open it. You can switch the feed back on whenever you want.

Do messages, jobs, and notifications still work?

Yes. Your messages, job search, notifications, your network, and profiles all keep working. snowscroll only removes the feeds you choose to remove.

Is snowscroll free?

Yes. snowscroll is free to download, with the first apps and core tools included. Pro unlocks the rest, with a 7 day trial and no card needed up front.

Keep going

Same idea, other apps: use Facebook without the feed, remove YouTube Shorts, or read the complete guide on how to stop phone addiction. More answers live in the FAQ.