What the CR icon on LinkedIn images means
The small CR icon marks images that carry Content Credentials. What people see when they click it, and how to post a photo without it.
The CR in the corner of an image on LinkedIn stands for Content Credentials. LinkedIn shows it on images and videos whose files carry Content Credentials (C2PA), a signed record of how they were made. Anyone who clicks it sees details from that record.
What people see when they click it
Depending on what the record contains:
- who issued the credentials, usually the company behind the app or device;
- the app or device used to make or edit the image;
- when the credentials were created and signed;
- whether AI was used to generate the image or part of it.
Why your photo has it
You didn’t add it; your camera or app did. The Google Pixel 10 adds Content Credentials to every JPEG photo it takes, Adobe apps can add them when you export, and many AI image tools add them to everything they make. LinkedIn has no setting to hide the icon: it appears because of what is in the file.
Posting a photo without it
Remove the Content Credentials from the file before you upload it. In Photoshop and Lightroom you can choose not to attach them when you export. PhotoCleanr removes them together with the location and the other metadata, without re-encoding the picture, so it looks the same. If an image’s credentials contain author or rights information, PhotoCleanr leaves it unchanged, at no cost, and the report says so. A post that is already up doesn’t change; you would post the clean copy again.
When to keep it
The icon can work for you: for a photographer or a designer it shows where the work comes from. And if the image was made with AI, the credentials say so for a reason: if it shows people, places or events that look real, you may have to disclose it, as explained in why Facebook and Instagram show “AI info”. Removing the metadata doesn’t change any duty to disclose.