See profiles you visited on LinkedIn: 3 ways

Looking for the people who opened your profile instead? That is a different list, covered in who viewed your LinkedIn profile. For everything else LinkedIn records about you, and for how long, see how long LinkedIn keeps your history.

Search your browser history for profiles you viewed

You opened a recruiter's profile on Tuesday, closed the tab, and now you want to send the invite. Your browser kept a history entry for that page, unless you used incognito mode.

1. Open the history page: chrome://history in Chrome (Cmd+Y on a Mac, Ctrl+H on Windows), or History → Show All History in Safari.
2. Search for linkedin.com/in/. Profile URLs contain that path, so the search returns profile pages (plus a few sub-pages such as someone's activity or experience).
3. Narrow it down by name if you remember one. LinkedIn sets the page title to "Name | LinkedIn", so a first name is enough.

Browser history misses four things:

• The LinkedIn app. Profiles you opened in the app do not appear in your browser history.
• Anything older than 90 days. Chrome keeps history for 90 days and then deletes it.
• Your other devices. A profile you opened on your work laptop is missing on your phone unless you sync history between them.
• Context. The entry shows a name and a timestamp. It does not say why you opened the profile or whether you sent an invite afterwards.

Profiles you viewed on your phone

• In a phone browser. Chrome on a phone keeps the same history. Tap the three-dot menu, then History, and type linkedin.com/in/ or a name into the search bar at the top.
• In the LinkedIn app. The app keeps no list of the profiles you opened, and those visits never reach your browser's history. Your best bet is the search box and your activity, described under retracing your steps below.

Keep a log of every profile you visit

LinkedAsk is a Chrome extension that notes each profile you open on linkedin.com: the person's name, headline, the time, and how many times you have been back. You do not press anything, so the profile you forgot to save is in the log too.

Your visits are listed on the dashboard and in the extension popup while you are on LinkedIn. From the list you can add a person to a watchlist or export the whole list as CSV.

You can also connect LinkedAsk to your own AI, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, and work with your visits from that chat. For example:

• "Whose profiles did I open more than once this month but never sent an invite?"
• "Save the recruiters I visited this week to my watchlist, with a note on each."
• "Draft a short first message to each of them."
• "Chart my profile visits by week since I installed LinkedAsk."

Retrace your steps inside LinkedIn

Four places inside LinkedIn record what you did, and one of them may include the person.

• Recent searches. Click the search box. Recent lists the words you typed, so a person shows up only if you searched for their name. Show all opens the full list.
• Your activity. Open your own profile, then Activity. The Reactions and Comments tabs list the posts you interacted with. If you reacted to something the person wrote, the author is one click away.
• Sent invitations. My Network → Manage → Sent shows the invitations you have out. Accepted ones move to your connections. Unanswered ones expire after six months.
• Messages. If you messaged them, the conversation is in your inbox with a link to the profile.

Each of these only helps if you did something beyond looking. A profile you opened and closed appears in none of them.

What LinkedIn keeps about your activity

LinkedIn stores your searches, your reactions and your sent invites. It does not store the profiles you opened.

On a free account you get your last three viewers for 90 days, and no list of the profiles you opened.

People often check these places first, and none of them lists your visits:

• Who's viewed your profile. It lists people who opened your page. They can see that you opened theirs, unless you browse in private or semi-private mode.
• The Activity tab. Posts, reactions and comments only.
• Settings → Data privacy. It covers account settings and permissions, with no browsing record.
• The data export. Connections, messages, posts and profile data, with no browsing history.

Pick by situation

• You need one profile from this week and you used a laptop: browser history, two minutes.
• You searched for the person by name: Recent in the LinkedIn search box.
• You interacted with the person in any way: your LinkedIn activity or inbox.

If you open a dozen profiles a day and keep losing people, keep a log. Job hunting: it is where you find the recruiter you meant to follow up with. Selling: it shows you the account you opened four times in August and never messaged.