How to find and share your LinkedIn QR code

Your LinkedIn QR code is in the mobile app. Tap the QR code icon in the search bar at the top of the homepage, then open the My code tab. The Scan tab next to it reads someone else's code and opens their profile, so you can send an invitation on the spot.

The steps below come from LinkedIn's Help page Using a LinkedIn QR code to connect with members, checked on November 5, 2026. That page covers the iOS and Android apps and hasn't been updated in several years, so labels in your version of the app may differ slightly. LinkedIn says to install the latest version of the app first.

Where to find your LinkedIn QR code

On iPhone:

1. Open the LinkedIn app.
2. Tap the QR code in the search bar at the top of the homepage.
3. Tap the My code tab.
4. Tap Share my code to send it by message, email or another app, or Save to photos to keep a copy in your photo library.

On Android, the tab is labeled MY CODE and the save button is SAVE TO GALLERY. LinkedIn's page says sharing the code straight to other apps was "coming soon" on Android. If you don't see a share option, save the image and share it from your phone's gallery.

How to scan someone else's LinkedIn QR code

1. Open the app and tap the QR code in the search bar.
2. Tap the Scan tab. On Android it's SCAN, and the first time you'll tap ENABLE CAMERA ACCESS.
3. Hold your phone directly above the other person's code.
4. When their profile opens, send your invitation.

To read a code someone sent you as an image, tap Scan from photos on iPhone or ADD CODE FROM GALLERY on Android.

Who scans whom matters a little. If you scan their code, you're the one sending the invitation, and you can do it while you're still talking. If they scan yours, they see your profile and decide whether to connect, and you only see an invitation when it arrives.

Is there a LinkedIn QR code on desktop?

Not that LinkedIn documents. The QR code Help page only covers the iOS and Android apps, and we found no Help Center instructions for a QR code on the desktop site. If you're building a business card or a slide deck on a computer, you have two options:

• Move the app's code to your computer. On iPhone, use Share my code and email it to yourself. On Android, save it to your gallery and send the image however you usually move photos.
• Make a code from your profile URL. Copy your public profile URL and paste it into a QR code generator you trust. That code is just a link to your profile, so it works with any phone camera, not only the LinkedIn app.

Either way, test the result before anyone else sees it.

Customize your public profile URL first

Do this before you print anything. A short URL such as linkedin.com/in/janedoe can go under the code as a fallback when someone's camera won't focus, and it's the address a self-made code points to.

From LinkedIn's Manage your public profile URL page, on desktop:

1. Click the Me icon, then click your profile card.
2. Click the Edit icon next to Public profile & URL on the right.
3. Under Edit your custom URL, click the Edit icon next to your URL.
4. Type the last part of the new URL and click Save.

In the app, tap your profile photo, then your profile card, then the More icon next to Add section. Tap Contact info, the Edit icon and your Profile URL, then follow the same Edit your custom URL steps.

The rules that matter for printed material:

• The custom part can be 3 to 100 characters, with no spaces, symbols, special characters or the word LinkedIn.
• You can change it up to five times in six months.
• After a change, the old URL stays linked to you for six months unless you unlink it. Once released, other members can claim it, so a code printed with the old URL can end up pointing at someone else.

LinkedIn's QR code page doesn't say which address the app's code contains. After changing your URL, scan your saved code with Scan from photos or a second phone and check that it still opens your profile.

Save and print it: business cards, badges and slides

LinkedIn's 2018 launch post suggested putting the code on event materials, conference badges, your website and your resume. A few practical points for each:

• Business cards. Save the image from My code and give it to whoever designs the card, with your custom URL printed beside it. Order a single proof and scan it with two different phones before printing a box of 500.
• Event badges. If the badge holder takes an insert, a card with your name and the code works. Print it large enough to scan from arm's length, since people scan from where they're standing.
• Slides. Put the code and the URL on your last slide and leave it up during questions. People in the back rows can type the URL if the code is too small for their camera.

For all three, keep the code dark on a light background, don't stretch or crop it, and leave clear space around it.

Use it at events, then follow up

The QR code solves the awkward part of meeting someone: spelling your name or finding the right profile among ten with the same name. It doesn't remember why you connected. Right after each conversation, add a line in your phone's notes: who, what they asked about, what you promised.

The follow-up is where the meeting turns into a conversation. Send it within a few days, start with whatever you promised, and keep people you actually spoke with separate from everyone else in the room. The event follow-up guide has examples for each case, including a speaker you only listened to.

If the event ran as a LinkedIn Event, its attendee list is a second source of people worth reaching. The event attendee exporter collects the attendee profiles your account can see into an OutreachGenie list, and the attendee export guide explains what that data does and doesn't include. Keep those prospects in a different list from the people you met in person. Someone who registered for the same event hasn't talked to you yet, and your message should say so.