See when you connected with someone on LinkedIn

The file is one of many in the archive, and what the LinkedIn data export gives you lists the rest.

Where to find your LinkedIn connection date

Look the person up on your Connections page

Your LinkedIn Connections page is the quickest place to look for a connection date, because you can search it by name. On my own Connections page, each row showed "Connected on" and a date when I saved it on March 26, 2026. LinkedIn Help does not describe the line, and yours may differ. On desktop, LinkedIn Help gives this path as of October 2026:

In the LinkedIn app, tap My Network, then Manage my network, then Connections, and type the name in the search bar.

If your rows have no Connected on line, go to the file. Your full connections list covers the page's sorts and filters.

Check Contact info on the person's LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn Help places Contact info under See contact info in the introduction section on desktop, and in the Contact section of the profile in the app.

It holds the details the person chose to share. If a connected date is listed there, that is your date. LinkedIn Help does not mention one, so if yours has none, use the file.

Get the exact date from your LinkedIn data export

As of October 2026, LinkedIn Help says the Connections file in your data export contains the "connection date for all 1st degree connections". You request the export in a desktop browser, because the download is not available on mobile.

I requested my own archive on October 2, 2026, and the first ZIP with Connections.csv arrived within minutes. That is one account on one day, so plan for the 24 hours. In that file, three lines of notes sit above the column headers, and the dates went back to the first connection on the account, so old connections are in there too.

To skip the spreadsheet, drop the file or the whole ZIP into the connections CSV analyzer. It skips the notes lines, and a search by name shows the month and year you connected with that person. Exporting your LinkedIn connections to a CSV covers the request and the file in more detail.

What the Connected On date means

Connected On should be the day one of you accepted, because accepting an invitation is what makes two people 1st-degree connections. The invitation itself may have been sent days or months earlier. Who accepted your LinkedIn invitations covers the acceptance side.

Connections.csv does not say who invited whom. For a recent connection, Invitations.csv in the same archive does. In my own archive, requested October 2, 2026, that file had a Sent At date and a Direction column reading OUTGOING or INCOMING, and its oldest row was just under six months before the request.

A person who is no longer your connection has no row in Connections.csv, so the file cannot give you their date. Finding removed LinkedIn connections covers that case.

Keep the date for each new connection

The LinkedIn data export gives the connected date for today's connections, and you request it again the next time you wonder. A note written on the day you connect works too, if you keep it up.

If you want it kept for you, LinkedAsk's activity history is a memory and personal CRM for your own LinkedIn. Its Connections list holds the connections it has seen in Chrome on your computer, newest first, with the connected day when LinkedIn showed one, and you can search it by name. Put someone on your watchlist and their card shows the invitation, the acceptance, your messages and your visits in order.

Pick by situation

• One person, right now: search their name on your Connections page and look for a Connected on line, about a minute.
• No line there, or you need a date you can rely on: request the archive and search Connections.csv, a few minutes of work and a wait of up to 24 hours.
• You want to know who sent the invitation: Invitations.csv in the same archive, for recent connections only.