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Exact pixel dimensions for LinkedIn profile photos, banners, and post images in 2026. Plus cropping tips, mobile vs desktop differences, and why AI photos skip the hassle.
LensCherry Team
AI Photo Experts • Updated February 2026
You spent 30 minutes choosing the perfect headshot. You upload it to LinkedIn. And then LinkedIn crops your forehead off.
This happens constantly because LinkedIn applies different crops on desktop, mobile, and tablet. Your photo might look perfect on your laptop and terrible on someone's phone. The fix is simple: know the exact dimensions LinkedIn expects and prepare your images accordingly.
Here's every image size you need for LinkedIn in 2026, plus practical tips for getting the crop right every time.
LinkedIn displays your profile photo as a circle, but you upload a square image. That means the corners get cut off. Anything in the corners of your square photo disappears.
How to prepare for the circular crop:
Common mistake: Uploading a rectangular photo and letting LinkedIn auto-crop it. LinkedIn will center-crop a rectangle into a square, then circle-crop that. You lose control of framing twice. Always upload a square image.
Your profile photo appears at different sizes depending on where it's viewed:
| Context | Display Size |
|---|---|
| Your profile page (desktop) | 200 x 200 px |
| Your profile page (mobile) |
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| 140 x 140 px |
| Feed posts and comments | 48 x 48 px |
| Search results | 56 x 56 px |
| Messages and InMail | 40 x 40 px |
| Connection requests | 72 x 72 px |
At 48 pixels in the feed, only high-contrast photos with clear facial features are recognizable. If your headshot looks good at thumbnail size, it will look great everywhere else.
Pro tip: Shrink your headshot to 48 x 48 pixels on your screen. Can you recognize the person? If not, increase the contrast, crop tighter on the face, or choose a simpler background.
For a full guide on banner design, check our LinkedIn banner photo ideas post.
Your banner gets cropped differently on every device:
| Device | Visible Area | Profile Photo Position |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop | Full 1584 x 396 | Bottom-left overlap |
| Mobile | Center ~1350 x 220 | Bottom-center overlap |
| Tablet | Varies by model | Bottom-left overlap |
The safe zone for critical content is the center 1200 x 200 pixels. Anything outside that might be hidden on some devices, and your profile photo always covers part of the bottom-left or bottom-center.
Design tip: Place text and important imagery in the right half of your banner, roughly 40% from center to right edge. This avoids the profile photo overlap on all devices.
When you share images in LinkedIn posts, different formats have different optimal sizes:
LinkedIn's feed favors landscape and square images. Portrait images work but take up more vertical space, which can be an advantage for stopping the scroll.
iPhone:
Android:
AI headshot tools like LensCherry generate photos at the exact resolution LinkedIn needs. When you create a headshot with Quick Shots or a trained model, the output is already sized for professional use. No cropping, no resizing, no compression artifacts.
This is one of those small advantages that saves real time. Every photo you generate is square, high-resolution, and properly framed for LinkedIn's circular crop. You download it and upload it directly.
Even if you upload a perfect 800 x 800 pixel photo, LinkedIn compresses it. The platform reduces file sizes to speed up page loads, and this compression can soften details, add artifacts around text, and reduce color accuracy.
How to minimize compression damage:
LinkedIn's mobile and desktop apps render images differently. Here's what to watch for:
Profile photo placement on banner: On desktop, your circular profile photo overlaps the bottom-left of your banner. On mobile, it shifts to bottom-center. If your banner has content in the bottom-center, mobile users won't see it.
Post image cropping: LinkedIn's feed crops landscape images to roughly 1.91:1 on desktop and tighter on mobile. Portrait images may be truncated with a "see more" expansion.
Resolution differences: Mobile screens are physically smaller but often have higher pixel density. A photo that looks sharp on a desktop monitor might look slightly different on a retina phone screen.
The fix: Always check your profile and posts on both desktop and mobile after making changes. The 30 seconds it takes to pull out your phone and verify is worth it.
Before uploading any image to LinkedIn, run through this:
One of the practical advantages of AI headshot tools is that they handle sizing automatically. When you generate a headshot with LensCherry, the output is:
You skip the entire resize, crop, and optimize workflow. Generate, download, upload. Three steps.
For headshot-specific tips beyond just sizing, check our 7 LinkedIn Photo Tips guide. And if your banner needs updating too, our LinkedIn banner ideas post covers design approaches that work with LinkedIn's tricky banner cropping. Choosing the right background for your headshot also makes a big difference in how your profile photo looks against your banner.
Here's a quick exercise. Open LinkedIn right now and check:
If anything fails these checks, fix it today. The tools are free, the process takes minutes, and the difference in how your profile is perceived is significant.
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