How to deactivate a LinkedIn company Page

LinkedIn's requirements:

• You're a super admin of the Page and you're on desktop.
• The Page is active and has fewer than 100 associated members.
• Its Showcase Pages have been deactivated first by their own super admins.
• There's no Career Page or affiliated Page. LinkedIn support has to resolve those.
• Active or paused ad campaigns are deleted or archived, and published Product Pages are unpublished.
• The company hasn't been acquired.
• If you want to reuse the URL for a new Page, you've contacted LinkedIn before deactivating.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Before and after you deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

LinkedIn's desktop steps:

1. Go to your Page's super admin view.
2. Click Settings in the left menu.
3. Select Deactivate page, or Deactivate showcase page for a Showcase Page.
4. Tick the box to confirm you understand what deactivating means.
5. Click Deactivate.

• A confirmation window appears. If the Page can't be deactivated, you'll see an error instead.
• There's no option in the LinkedIn app.

Source: LinkedIn Help: Deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

From LinkedIn's help page:

• The Page is hidden from members and removed from LinkedIn search.
• Current and former employees keep the company name in their Experience section, but the logo becomes a placeholder and the link to the Page is removed.
• Apps connected to the Page can't be moved to another Page.
• Other Page admins can ask LinkedIn to give the URL to another Page.
• LinkedIn's pages don't say what happens to followers or posts while the Page is deactivated.

Source: LinkedIn Help: Before and after you deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

Super admins get an email when the Page is deactivated. To bring it back:

1. Open the deactivation confirmation email.
2. Click Reactivate.
3. If you see an error, check whether another admin has already reactivated it.

• The Page returns as it was, with the same content, settings, follower count and admins.
• LinkedIn doesn't state a deadline for reactivating.
• If LinkedIn removed the Page for breaking its Professional Community Policies and you think that's a mistake, contact LinkedIn to ask for it back.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Reactivate your LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Before and after you deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

LinkedIn suggests other routes in some cases:

• Business closed or rebranded: LinkedIn suggests keeping the Page active so employees' work history still links to it. You can say the company has closed in the Page description.
• You've left the business: remove your own admin role instead.
• New name: change the Page name rather than starting again.
• A second Page for the same business: ask LinkedIn to remove it as a duplicate or merge it with yours.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Before and after you deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

If the option is missing on desktop, LinkedIn says the Page isn't eligible. Check these:

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Before and after you deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Deactivate a LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page, checked 15 October 2026

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