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How to Withdraw a LinkedIn Invitation
How to Withdraw a LinkedIn Invitation
Alexia Weber avatar
Written by Alexia Weber
Updated over 3 months ago

You have sent many invitations and your leads haven't accepted them yet.

Why not withdraw the oldest LinkedIn invitations?

Let's take an example: a person leaves the company and you have to delete the LinkedIn account of the identity.

LGM does not delete invitations that have already been sent by this identity via its campaigns.

Indeed, once an invitation has been sent, it cannot be removed unless the lead does it himself. One tactic is therefore to withdraw old invitations regularly and wait 3 weeks before sending a new one.

Whether you're a recruiter constantly engaging with new talent or a salesperson building market knowledge, you want to maximize your networking potential.

LinkedIn has become increasingly valuable as you connect with more people. But as you (automatically) add people to LinkedIn, you might eventually hit LinkedIn's maximum pending invitation limit of 1,500 invitations.

No problem - you can just delete those pending invitations. Indeed, Invitations older than 3 months might never receive any answers and stop you from sending a fresh one.

For that, you have two options :

Do it manually directly on LinkedIn

First, log in to your LinkedIn account using your credentials. Once logged in, navigate to the LinkedIn homepage or your profile page.

In the top navigation bar, locate and click on the "My Network" tab. This will take you to the "Connections" page, where you can manage your connection requests.

On the "Connections" page, look for the "See All" option in the top right corner. Click on it.

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On the "Manage Invitations" page, you'll see a sent option you can click on. Click on it to see any pending sent invitations.

Once you have located the connection request you want to withdraw, click on the "Withdraw" option next to the recipient's name. A confirmation prompt may appear to ensure that you want to withdraw the request.

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Do it automatically with Phantombuster

The LinkedIn Auto Invitation Withdrawer Phantom will log in to LinkedIn on your behalf and remove all your pending (unanswered) invitations, freeing you up to choose the next few thousand people you'll invite to your network. It provides a simple way to work around LinkedIn's limits by automatically and regularly withdrawing unanswered connection requests.

This allows professional networkers and recruiters to continue efficiently growing their LinkedIn network even after hitting the 1,500 invitation cap. No more worrying about hitting the limit - this phantom bot does the cleanup for you, letting you stay focused on expanding your valuable professional connections.

Whether you're a recruiter constantly engaging with new talent or a salesperson building market knowledge, this tool helps LinkedIn users maximize their networking potential.

How to use it?

  • Connect to LinkedIn using PhantomBuster's browser extension

This automation will act on your behalf on LinkedIn. The safest and most efficient way for the Phantom to connect to your account is by using your session cookie, which you can retrieve using PhantomBuster's browser extension.

  • Specify how many invitations you want to remove

By default, this API will keep your last 1000 connection requests. You can change this value if necessary. If you want to withdraw all your invites, set this value to 0.

  • Set the Phantom on repeat

Automation always produces better results in the long run. Set the Phantom to launch repeatedly and get results while you're away! Phantoms run from the cloud, which means you don't even need to have your browser open or computer on for these launches to happen.

Once you’ve done with the set-up, you can launch your Phantom and make it run 🔛 !

Remember that once withdrawn, you have a 3 weeks delay before being able to resend an invitation. To avoid that, you could also add them from another identity for instance.

With Phantom Buster, you can choose how many requests you want to keep or use a list of LinkedIn profiles as input (that you can extract from your old campaigns as LGM enriches those profiles!)

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