# Find the official LinkedIn Year in Review when it is available

Original constructed exercise. No real accounts, publications, customers, viewers or experimental results. Keep completed real records private.

## Compare three complete access decisions

R1 — A fictional reader follows a saved 2025 native link in June 2026 on desktop. Evidence: old edition, desktop, and official limited access ending January 31. Unsupported advice: “Refresh until you qualify.” Decision: stop retrying the expired route, keep availability unconfirmed, and check whether a separate current product fits the reader’s actual purpose. No lost native recap was recovered.

R2 — A fictional reader sees a 2026 headline on October 31 but the only checked official FAQ describes 2025. There is no observed personal entry. Safe note: “Official 2026 access is not established by this evidence.” Decision: hold a launch announcement, keep the genuine help link and separate any third-party year-to-date report. Neither an expected month nor an article title is a release receipt.

R3 — In a constructed during-window scenario, the reader has a genuine entry in the current app and the correct edition opens. They want to review privately, not post. Decision: read the content and leave the sharing action unused; save only information they are entitled to retain privately. A later draft with names still needs a separate privacy check. This is a hypothetical branch, not a tested native session.

## Fill and decide

1. Provider, edition/year and actual question: native access or third-party creation
2. Check date/time and device/app; no account credentials
3. Official source and edition-specific availability/expiry evidence
4. Actual entry/error observed, or explicitly no account observation
5. Eligibility/language/loading unknowns; do not invent a threshold
6. Result edition/scope if genuinely opened; sharing remains a separate choice
7. Proceed/hold/stop-expired-route decision and permitted wording
8. Alternative provider considered separately; next official recheck

Optional reproduction checks only fixed example data, arithmetic, timezone conversions and file identities. It does not assess completed private notes, permission, identities, language or effectiveness.