--- title: "Sales Navigator Alerts in LinkedIn Notifications: What You See Without Opening Navigator" description: "Which Sales Navigator alerts show up in your LinkedIn notifications, which licenses get them and how they differ from Microsoft Teams alerts. September 2026." url: "https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-alerts-linkedin-notifications/" lang: "en" author: "Rafal Szymanski" date: "2026-09-26" lastmod: "2026-10-21" --- # Sales Navigator Alerts in LinkedIn Notifications: What You See Without Opening Navigator > Which Sales Navigator alerts show up in your LinkedIn notifications, which licenses get them and how they differ from Microsoft Teams alerts. September 2026. ## Sales Navigator alerts in short - Lead posts, account headcount growth and mergers and acquisitions do not go to LinkedIn notifications: they stay on the Sales Navigator homepage and in the embedded CRM view. - In the release notes' availability table, alerts in LinkedIn notifications are ticked for Core, Advanced and Advanced Plus, while most of the release's Teams and CRM features are Advanced Plus only. In September 2026 LinkedIn's public price list showed Core from **$119.99** a month. - The Microsoft Teams integration from the same release works only on Advanced Plus, needs an IT admin to install the app and sends no alerts about people in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. According to the documentation, LinkedIn notifications have none of these conditions. - Sales Navigator alerts only cover what you have saved: without saved leads, accounts and searches there is nothing to notify you about. For job change alerts you also have to switch on the relevant toggles in the notification settings inside Navigator. - Tap a notification about new saved search results (in LinkedIn's graphic: 144 new results) and you see a list of people, each with a “Save in Sales Navigator” button, so you save the lead straight from the LinkedIn app. - Sales Navigator notifications look no different from regular ones, so they are easy to miss. On my account in September 2026 they showed on desktop but not yet on mobile. My experience tells me two things, and they are why I think this small feature is very helpful. First, 90% of the people I know because I trained them on Sales Navigator never install the mobile app. Even if they install it, they don't open it, and here I have to admit I'm writing about myself too. I have the app, but I use Sales Navigator on my laptop and only occasionally on my phone. Second, if someone isn't a Sales Navigator heavy user like me and doesn't spend hours in it every day, they tend to look in when they have something to do, which means: rarely. Far more people use "regular" LinkedIn and log in to it, and more and more of them do it on their phones. That's why I think showing SN notifications in regular LinkedIn is a good move by the platform. ## What changed in Sales Navigator alerts Some Sales Navigator alerts now arrive as regular LinkedIn notifications, next to reactions to your posts and job offers. You don't have to open Navigator to see that a saved lead got promoted. Why did LinkedIn do this? The announcement says it meets sellers where they already are 5 or more days a week. Sales Navigator is a separate app that many users open less often than their feed, and an alert nobody opens is worth nothing. As I wrote above, I agree 100%. I also know people who switched on a license once and simply have it, without ever looking at the tool. [Image: Two screens of the LinkedIn mobile app: a notification about 144 new results for the saved search VP in Tech, marked Powered by Sales Navigator, and the results list with a Save in Sales Navigator button] *A notification about new saved search results in the LinkedIn app. Graphic: LinkedIn, September 2026 Sales Navigator release announcement.* ## Which alerts show up in LinkedIn notifications The documentation lists three kinds: 1. a saved lead got promoted or moved to another company; 2. a saved account or an account from your CRM made a senior hire; 3. a saved search has new results. [Image: Three Sales Navigator alerts in LinkedIn notifications: a saved lead got promoted or changed companies, a saved account made a senior hire, a saved search has new results] What does it look like? In LinkedIn's graphic the notification reads "144 new lead results from your saved search VP in Tech" and is marked "Powered by Sales Navigator". Tap it and you see a list of new people, each with a "Save in Sales Navigator" button, so you save the lead straight from the LinkedIn app. Each person also shows how many connections can introduce you. And the rest of the alerts? Lead posts, account headcount growth, or mergers and acquisitions are still on the Sales Navigator homepage and in the embedded CRM view. Only these three kinds go to LinkedIn notifications. [Image: The desktop LinkedIn notifications list with each notification labelled as coming from LinkedIn or from Sales Navigator, including a suggested lead and a strategic priority of WAGO Polska] *Sales Navigator notifications mixed in with regular LinkedIn notifications. Screenshot from my account, September 2026.* This is how it looks on my account, and notice that the Sales Navigator notifications look no different from the regular ones, so they are easy to miss. Something else surprised me, though only a little, knowing how slow and chaotic LinkedIn rollouts can be: I see these notifications on desktop but not on mobile. They will probably come with the next app update. ## Does this work on Sales Navigator Core? Yes, and that is the most interesting part of this change. In the availability table of the release notes the feature is ticked for Core, Advanced and Advanced Plus. Most of the other new features in the same release, the ones about Teams and the CRM, are Advanced Plus only. How much does Core cost? In September 2026 LinkedIn's public price list showed Core from $119.99 a month, and my own account in Poland showed PLN 440.00 a month net. The details are in my [Sales Navigator pricing guide](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/linkedin-sales-navigator-pricing/). ## LinkedIn notifications or Microsoft Teams? How is this different from Teams? The Microsoft Teams integration from the same release works only on Advanced Plus, needs the app to be installed by an IT admin, and sends no alerts about people in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK. LinkedIn notifications have none of these conditions in the documentation: they come with every license and there is nothing to install. For a team that sells inside the EU, LinkedIn notifications are the version of this release that can work right away. I write more about Teams in my [post on Sales Navigator for Microsoft Teams](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-microsoft-teams/). [Image: Comparison: Microsoft Teams alerts work only on Advanced Plus, need installing and skip people in the EEA, LinkedIn notifications are on every license and work right away] ## What to do so the alerts actually arrive Why might someone get none of these notifications? Because alerts only cover what you have saved. Without saved leads, saved accounts and saved searches, Sales Navigator has nothing to tell you about. 1. Save the leads whose changes you want to know about. 2. Save the accounts where you are looking for new decision makers. 3. Save a search that describes your ideal customer, so you get notified about new results. For job change alerts, the Sales Navigator documentation also requires you to switch on the relevant toggles in the notification settings inside Navigator itself. [Image: What to save in Sales Navigator so alerts arrive: leads, accounts, a search for your ideal customer and the job change alert toggles] The full overview of the September release, with the table of which license gets what, is in my [post on new Sales Navigator features in 2026](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-2026-features/). In my [Sales Navigator training](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/services/linkedin-sales-navigator-training/) we build saved searches and lists so that your alerts are about your customers, not random people. **The whole series on the September Sales Navigator release** - [Sales Navigator alerts in Microsoft Teams](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-microsoft-teams/) - [Lead IQ in the CRM](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/lead-iq-crm/) - [Personalized onboarding](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-personalized-onboarding/) - [Alerts after the update and the new weekly email](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-alerts/) - [The new Sales Navigator search](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-search-2026/) - [Warm introductions: who can introduce you](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-warm-introductions/) - [Notes and calls logging to the CRM](https://rafalszymanski.pl/en/blog/sales-navigator-activity-logging-controls/) ## Sources - [LinkedIn Sales Navigator release notes, July to September 2026](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a16010005) - [Sales Navigator alerts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a105133) - [Sales Navigator for Microsoft Teams](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a10405012) ## Frequently asked questions about Sales Navigator alerts in LinkedIn notifications ### Which Sales Navigator alerts show up in LinkedIn notifications? According to LinkedIn's documentation, three kinds: a saved lead being promoted or moving to another company, a senior hire at a saved account or an account from your CRM, and new results for a saved search. ### Does this work on Sales Navigator Core? Yes. In the availability table of the September 2026 release notes this feature is ticked for all three licenses: Core, Advanced and Advanced Plus. ### How is this different from the Microsoft Teams alerts? Teams works only on Advanced Plus, needs to be installed by an IT admin and sends no alerts about people in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. LinkedIn notifications come with every license and need no installation. ### Why am I not getting any Sales Navigator alerts? Most often because nothing is saved. Alerts cover only saved leads, saved accounts and saved searches, so without lists in Sales Navigator there is nothing to notify you about. ### Can I turn off Sales Navigator alerts in LinkedIn notifications? Yes. Click the three dots next to the notification and choose the option to hide that type of notification. That is how I hid birthday notifications, which I consider pointless on LinkedIn.