How Do You Close a LinkedIn Account If You Don’t Have the Password?

If you signed up for LinkedIn on a random day, forgot the password, and now just want the emails to stop, you’re definitely not the only one. A lot of people create an account quickly, sometimes through Google or Apple, and then months later realize they don’t actually want to use the platform. The frustrating part is that closing a LinkedIn account sounds simple until you no longer know how you signed in.

If that sounds like your situation, the good news is that there are still a few practical ways to sort it out. You do not necessarily need to keep deleting the emails forever, and you do not need to be especially technical either. You just need to work through the account recovery steps in the right order.

First, ask yourself: how did you actually create the account?

Before trying to close the account, it helps to figure out how you signed up in the first place. LinkedIn accounts are often created in one of these ways:

• With an email address and a password you chose manually
• Using Sign in with Google
• Using Sign in with Apple
• Using an old work or personal email you forgot about

This matters because if you used Google or Apple, there may not be a normal saved LinkedIn password in Firefox. Instead, you may have authenticated through a connected login method.

Step 1: Try LinkedIn’s password reset page

The simplest place to start is LinkedIn’s password reset page. Go here:

https://www.linkedin.com/checkpoint/rp/request-password-reset

Enter every email address you might have used. That includes:

• Your main personal email
• An older personal email
• A work email
• Any Apple relay email if you tend to use privacy features

If LinkedIn recognizes the address, it will usually send a password reset link. Once you regain access, you can sign in and close the account properly.

If you are not sure which email is attached to the account, check the LinkedIn emails you have been receiving. The destination email inbox itself is often the best clue. Also check the message headers or greeting name inside the email.

Step 2: Check whether you used Google or Apple sign-in

If no saved password appears in Firefox, there is a decent chance you used a social login method instead of creating a standalone LinkedIn password.

For Google, try going to LinkedIn’s login page and selecting Continue with Google. Make sure you are signed into the same Google account in your browser first. You can also review connected accounts in your Google security settings here:

Google Account Security

For Apple, try Sign in with Apple if the option appears during login. If you used Apple’s private relay, the LinkedIn account may be tied to a hidden email address. You can review apps connected to your Apple ID here:

Apple Support: Manage apps using Sign in with Apple

One thing to keep in mind: even if Google or Apple was used to create the account, LinkedIn may still allow you to reset the password directly later. So it is worth trying both routes.

Step 3: Look in Firefox’s saved passwords carefully

You mentioned using Firefox on Mac and relying on saved logins. That is a smart place to check, but it helps to search in a few different ways.

• Open Firefox Password Manager
• Search for linkedin.com
• Search for your email addresses too
• Check whether multiple LinkedIn entries exist

Sometimes the browser saved a username but not the full login method. Other times you might find an older email attached to the account. Mozilla also has a guide here if you need help locating saved logins:

Mozilla Support: Password Manager in Firefox

Step 4: If you can access the account, here is how to close it

Once you are back in, LinkedIn lets you close the account through settings. The official instructions are here:

LinkedIn Help: Close your account

Usually the path is something like this:

• Go to Me at the top of LinkedIn
• Open Settings & Privacy
• Go to Account preferences
• Find Account management
• Select Close account

LinkedIn will usually ask why you are leaving and may ask you to confirm your password again.

What if you still cannot log in?

If you have tried password reset, Google login, Apple login, and browser-stored passwords, the next step is contacting LinkedIn support. This is especially important if:

• You know the email address but reset links are not arriving
• You no longer have access to the original email address
• The account may have been created with an old or hidden login method
• You simply want the account removed and cannot verify it through normal login steps

LinkedIn’s help center is here:

LinkedIn Help Center

You may need to go through identity verification or submit an account recovery request. It is not always instant, but it is usually the cleanest route when regular access is gone.

If the real goal is just to stop the emails for now

Sometimes closing the account takes a bit longer than expected. If your main issue is the flood of email notifications, you can reduce the noise while you sort out the login problem.

Try these quick fixes:

• Click unsubscribe at the bottom of any LinkedIn email
• Create a mail filter in your email client to archive or block LinkedIn messages
• Mark them as spam only if needed, though unsubscribing is cleaner first

This does not delete the account, of course, but it gives you breathing room.

A simple troubleshooting breakdown

If you want the short version, here is the most useful order to follow:

1. Check the inbox receiving LinkedIn emails
2. Use that email on LinkedIn’s password reset page
3. Try signing in with Google
4. Try signing in with Apple
5. Search Firefox saved passwords for LinkedIn and older email addresses
6. Contact LinkedIn support if none of the above works
7. Once inside, close the account through Settings & Privacy

A couple of questions worth asking yourself

When people get stuck with account closure, it is usually because one of these details is being overlooked:

• Did you create the account with a different email than the one you expected?
• Did you use Google or Apple instead of a normal password?
• Do you still have access to the inbox getting LinkedIn emails?
• Could the account be tied to an old work address?
• Did Apple hide your real email through a private relay address?

Even answering one of those can save a lot of time.

Final thought

So, how do you close a LinkedIn account if you do not have the password? In most cases, you first need to recover access through your email, Google, Apple, or LinkedIn support. After that, closing the account is fairly straightforward. The annoying part is rarely the closure itself. It is figuring out which login method you used months ago.

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