Friend/Friend recommendations basics
The users you keep in touch with on LINE are called friends.
• When you add someone as a friend, you can have conversations with them in chats and invite them to chats and groups.
• When both of you add each other as friends, you can voice call each other.
• You can add up to 5,000 friends on LINE.
Useful info (for users in Japan)
- To protect minors who are using the service, LINE has in cooperation with various mobile service providers partially restricted some features, such as setting a LINE ID, searching for IDs, and searching for friends using their phone numbers for users under 18.
- To verify your age and gain full functionality, see About age verification. (Only available in Japanese.)
- Age verification is not available on LINE for PC.
Topics covered
How users appear in friend lists/friend recommendations:
If you and another user have each other's phone number saved in your respective smartphone's contacts and both have Allow others to add me and Auto-add friends turned on in the smartphone version of LINE, you will mutually appear in each other's friend list.
However, if you have their phone number saved in your smartphone's contacts but they don't have yours, they will appear in your friend list, while you will show up in their friend recommendations (and vice versa).
Also, if they added you as a friend via your phone number, a QR code, or your LINE ID, or another method, they will appear in your friend recommendations.
The users that appear in your friend recommendations on the smartphone version of LINE will also appear on LINE for PC.
Adding friends:
You can add friends on LINE for PC with the following methods.
1. From the main menu, click
> Friend search.
2. Choose LINE ID or Phone number.
3. Enter the LINE ID or phone number of the friend you want to add in the search field and press Enter.
4. Click Add.
Note:
- If the person you want to add has turned off the Allow others to add me by ID setting on the smartphone version of LINE, they will not appear in ID search results.
- If the person you want to add has turned off the Allow others to add me setting in the smartphone version of LINE, they will not appear in phone number search results.
.
2. In the friend recommendations list, click next to the person you want to add.
2. Click Scan QR code.
3. Click Add.
You can also send your QR code via email or text message by opening the smartphone version of LINE and tapping > Invite.
For details, refer to Adding people who aren't or may not be using LINE as friends.
Note: You cannot display your own QR code with LINE for PC.
Friends' display names:
The display names that your friends set for themselves will appear on LINE for PC. If you want to change a friend's display name, follow the steps below.
1. From the main menu, click
.
2. Right-click the friend whose display name you want to change.
3. Click Change friend’s name.
4. Click
next to their display name.
5. After entering a new display name, press the Enter key or click Save.
Note:
- This will also change the way their display name appears on the smartphone version of LINE.
- This will not change the way their display name appears on their own LINE account or the accounts of other users.
Preventing others from adding you as a friend:
If you don't want other people to add you as a friend, refer to Preventing others from adding you as a friend, and change your settings from the smartphone version of LINE.
Note: If you want to remove a user who is already your friend on LINE from your friends, see the steps in Deleting accounts.
• When you add someone as a friend, you can have conversations with them in chats and invite them to chats and groups.
• When both of you add each other as friends, you can voice call each other.
• You can add up to 5,000 friends on LINE.
Useful info (for users in Japan)- To verify your age and gain full functionality, see About age verification. (Only available in Japanese.)
- Age verification is not available on LINE for PC.
Topics covered
- How users appear in friend lists/friend recommendations
- Preventing others from adding you as a friend
How users appear in friend lists/friend recommendations:
If you and another user have each other's phone number saved in your respective smartphone's contacts and both have Allow others to add me and Auto-add friends turned on in the smartphone version of LINE, you will mutually appear in each other's friend list.
However, if you have their phone number saved in your smartphone's contacts but they don't have yours, they will appear in your friend list, while you will show up in their friend recommendations (and vice versa).
Also, if they added you as a friend via your phone number, a QR code, or your LINE ID, or another method, they will appear in your friend recommendations.
The users that appear in your friend recommendations on the smartphone version of LINE will also appear on LINE for PC.
Adding friends:
You can add friends on LINE for PC with the following methods.
Adding friends via ID/phone number search
Note: Adding friends by searching for their phone numbers only applies to LINE accounts created with LINE versions earlier than 13.11.0 if you're not using LINE in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or Thailand.1. From the main menu, click
> Friend search.2. Choose LINE ID or Phone number.
3. Enter the LINE ID or phone number of the friend you want to add in the search field and press Enter.
4. Click Add.
Note:
- If the person you want to add has turned off the Allow others to add me by ID setting on the smartphone version of LINE, they will not appear in ID search results.
- If the person you want to add has turned off the Allow others to add me setting in the smartphone version of LINE, they will not appear in phone number search results.
Adding friends from your friend recommendations
1. From the main menu, click.2. In the friend recommendations list, click
next to the person you want to add.[Windows/Mac] Adding friends via QR code
1. Right-click the QR code image you received in a chat.2. Click Scan QR code.
3. Click Add.
You can also send your QR code via email or text message by opening the smartphone version of LINE and tapping
> Invite.For details, refer to Adding people who aren't or may not be using LINE as friends.
Note: You cannot display your own QR code with LINE for PC.
Friends' display names:
The display names that your friends set for themselves will appear on LINE for PC. If you want to change a friend's display name, follow the steps below.
1. From the main menu, click
.2. Right-click the friend whose display name you want to change.
3. Click Change friend’s name.
4. Click
next to their display name.5. After entering a new display name, press the Enter key or click Save.
Note:
- This will also change the way their display name appears on the smartphone version of LINE.
- This will not change the way their display name appears on their own LINE account or the accounts of other users.
Preventing others from adding you as a friend:
If you don't want other people to add you as a friend, refer to Preventing others from adding you as a friend, and change your settings from the smartphone version of LINE.
Note: If you want to remove a user who is already your friend on LINE from your friends, see the steps in Deleting accounts.
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