How to Verify LinkedIn Without Using Your Personal Phone Number

LinkedIn lets you sign up with an email, but it often asks for a phone number anyway — sometimes right at signup, and again if it flags a login as unusual or wants to add two-step verification. That's inconvenient if you're testing a signup flow, running a second/company-test account, or would rather not tie a professional network profile to your personal number.

Steps

1. Rent a number for LinkedIn — an instant rental covers the one-time verification.

2. On LinkedIn's phone-verification step, enter the rented number with its country code.

3. LinkedIn sends a verification code by SMS, usually within seconds.

4. Enter the code from your rental's status page to finish verifying.

Instant or monthly?

An instant rental is enough — LinkedIn verifies the number once and doesn't typically text it again afterward, so there's no need to keep it reachable long-term.