Can you unsend a LinkedIn message? The 60-minute rule

You can't recall a LinkedIn message, but you can edit or delete it for everyone within 60 minutes of sending. How, and what the other person sees.

By Amardeep Anand, founder of Bokka · Published 26 October 2026

You can't recall a LinkedIn message once it's sent, but you can delete it for everyone, or edit its text, within 60 minutes of sending it. After that it stays as it is. The other person will see that it was deleted or edited.

Unsending a message means taking it back so the other person no longer sees it. On LinkedIn the closest thing is deleting a message within the conversation. Bokka is an AI-first CRM for your LinkedIn inbox.

What LinkedIn lets you do

Sources: Edit or delete a sent message, retrieved 24 October 2026 and Recall a sent message, retrieved 24 October 2026.

How to delete or edit a sent message

1. Open the conversation from the Messaging icon or the chat window.
2. Point at your message and click the More icon. On the phone app, tap and hold the message.
3. Choose Delete and confirm, or Edit, change the text and click Save.

What the other person sees

• After you delete a message, it's removed for everyone in the conversation and can't be retrieved. In its place, the conversation says "This message has been deleted".
• After you edit a message, it shows an Edited label.
• If they've already read it, deleting it doesn't change that. Treat the 60 minutes as a way to fix a mistake, not to take something back unseen.

After 60 minutes

There's no way to change or remove a message for the other person after the hour. You can delete the whole conversation, but that only clears your own inbox; theirs keeps every message. The practical fix is a short follow-up correcting the mistake.

Avoid sending too soon

Most messages people want back went out a moment too early, often from pressing Enter mid-thought. A few habits help:

• Write longer messages somewhere you can't send by accident, then paste them in.
• Read the first line again before you send: it's the part people see in their inbox.
• Use saved replies for messages you send often, so the wording is already checked.

In Bokka, ⌘+Enter or Ctrl+Enter sends by default, so Enter alone starts a new line; you can switch to Enter in Settings → Preferences. Snippets with fill-in gaps such as {{first_name}} won't send until every gap is filled. And within the same hour, you can still fix a message from the keyboard: T edits your last message, Shift+T deletes it for everyone, and Backspace hides a message from your own view only. See Reply to a conversation.

About Bokka

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