LinkedIn’s CR icon

What the panel lists, and what a file clean can change before the next upload.

What the icon is

A signed C2PA record that traveled with the upload. LinkedIn’s help center also calls it the C2PA icon. Photos from a camera, and stories from a newsroom, can carry the same kind of record. It is not a separate decision that the picture is AI-generated. LinkedIn says the rollout is gradual, so some accounts do not see the icon yet.

What a click shows

• The signer’s assertion, including whether that signer says AI was used to generate or edit any part
• The app or device
• Who created the media
• Who issued and signed the credential
• The date and time it was issued

That assertion is the issuer’s statement. The cleaner does not re-judge it.

A missing icon is silence

LinkedIn says it is not yet possible to identify and label all AI-generated and modified content. A missing icon is not a finding that a person made the picture.

A crop does not remove a live post

Caption edits, alt text, and a crop inside the composer change the post LinkedIn keeps. They do not hand back the original container. A post already stored keeps the icon until you replace the upload. There is no account setting that strips every future image. Video, PDF, and Campaign Manager are outside this cleaner. A cloud copy of a credential is not in the local file.

The file to clean

Drop the JPEG, PNG, or WebP you will attach. A screenshot of the CR icon is the wrong file. An iPhone HEIC works here and comes back as a clean JPEG.

Set the mode to AI only (the select label is AI provenance / C2PA / AI metadata). Press Inspect only to look. Press Clean this file to strip. The After column is a new scan of the cleaned bytes. Download only after the C2PA row is gone. The name ends in -cleaned.

What a clean does not do

SynthID and TrustMark stay in the pixels. Cleaning does not guarantee a platform label disappears. One image is free. Pro is $9.99 once, not a subscription. The next image needs Pro.

Read the five fields on the page

What LinkedIn Content Credentials are

Not affiliated with LinkedIn. Steps and panel fields are from that page and the how-to-use help, checked 2026-10-08.