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I get an error when I try to transfer my account toggle

Please see the instructions below the relevant error message that appears when you try transferring your account.

• Unable to sign up.

• An unknown error occurred. Please try again later.

• Verification is temporarily blocked. Please try again later.

Try again one to two days after the error occurs.

• Invalid password.

• We couldn't find any accounts registered to the email address you entered.

• Please enter a valid email address.

• Invalid email address or password.

Please refer to this Help article for details.

• Invalid phone number.

Please refer to this Help article for details.

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Issues with transferring your account toggle

If your account is not successfully transferred, your friends, groups, and other data will be deleted.

Note: For more information about your friends and groups disappearing after transferring your account, see this Help article.

Even if your account data is lost, we may be able to transfer your purchased stickers and some other types of paid items if you contact us. To do so, please create a LINE account and send an inquiry from the following link:

Apply to restore items

The following can be transferred:

• The right to use your LINE stickers and themes (including those received as gifts)

• Your item purchase history and Coin balance

Note: Coins cannot be transferred between different OSes (e.g. from iOS to Android and vice versa).

• Your Credit balance purchased from LINE STORE

Note: Any account data that is not mentioned above (including your friends, chat history, and groups) cannot be transferred.

If you lost LINE Game items or data, please send an inquiry from within the relevant game app.

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I can’t use LINE after restoring from an iTunes or iCloud backup toggle

If you can't use LINE for any of the following reasons after restoring from an iTunes/iCloud backup, try offloading and reinstalling the app.

Note: Your data will remain intact even if you offload the app.

• An error appears and you can't use LINE.

• An old email address appears and you can't use your LINE account.

• Entering your passcode doesn't unlock the app.

• The login screen repeatedly appears.

• You have notifications turned ON, but are not receiving them.

To offload and reinstall LINE:

1. On your phone, tap Settings > General > iPhone Storage.

2. Tap LINE in your list of apps.

3. Tap Offload App > Offload App.

4. After offloading the app, tap Reinstall App.

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My friends and groups disappeared when I tried to transfer my account toggle

If your friends and groups disappear after transferring your account, it means that you did one of the following:

• Created a new account

• Transferred a different account by mistake

In either of the above cases, the account that you had been using before will become inaccessible, and your data (including your friends and groups) will be deleted and cannot be restored.

Note: The same phone number and Facebook account cannot be registered to multiple LINE accounts. Registering a phone number to a different LINE account will make the account that the phone number was registered to before inaccessible.

Even if your old account data is lost, you can still continue using your purchased items, LINE Pay balance, LINE POINTS, and other billing information. For the steps to redownload your purchased items, see this Help article.

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I haven't received my password setup code toggle

Your password setup code will be sent in a chat message to the LINE account you're trying to transfer. Please start LINE on your previous device and check the password setup code in the message you received.

Note: If you're using the LINE account you want to transfer on LINE for PC or iPad in addition to your smartphone, you can also check for the chat message there.

If you can't confirm the password setup code, there will be no way to transfer your LINE account. In this case, please sign up for a new account.

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The "How to finish transferring your account" screen appeared toggle

The way you can continue transferring your account depends on your situation.

If you can still use LINE on the smartphone you were using before changing devices, use either of the methods below.

• Turn on the Allow account transfer setting on your old smartphone:
1. On your old smartphone, turn ON the Allow account transfer setting.
Note: For details, see this Help article.
2. Tap Continue on the "How to finish transferring your account" screen that appears on your new smartphone.

• Use your old smartphone to verify your account transfer:
1. Tap Get account transfer code on the “How to finish transferring your account” screen.
2. Check the account transfer code that's sent to your old smartphone from the LINE official account.
3. Enter the account transfer code on your new smartphone.
4. Tap OK.

If you're using LINE for PC, follow the steps below.

1. Tap Get account transfer code on the “How to finish transferring your account” screen.
2. Check the account transfer code that's sent to you on LINE for PC from the LINE official account.
3. Enter the account transfer code on your new smartphone.
4. Tap OK.

If you can't use LINE on your old smartphone or LINE for PC, contact us via the Inquiry Form.

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My account was restricted when I tried requesting an account transfer code toggle

An error message will appear if you repeatedly request an account transfer code in a short amount of time.

If the message "You have been temporarily restricted from requesting account transfer codes because you repeatedly requested them. Please try again later." appears when requesting a code, try again after 24 hours has passed.

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I’m not receiving the account transfer code toggle

The account transfer code is sent to your old smartphone in a LINE chat message. You can also confirm this chat message on LINE for PC.

If you’re unable to receive the account transfer code, please contact us via the Inquiry Form.

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I get an error when I enter my email address or password toggle

Please make sure that:

• Your password doesn't include any unnecessary spaces.

• You entered only half-width characters.

• You didn't accidentally enter a similar looking character.

For example:

- 1 (one), I (capital 'i'), and l (lower-case 'L')

- 0 (zero), o (alphabet 'O')

- 9 (nine), q (lower-case 'Q')

• You entered the password correctly.

If you've checked everything above but still see an error message, please try resetting your password and then entering it again.

Note: You will not be able to reset your password if you didn't register an email address to your LINE account.

For the steps to reset your password when transferring your account, please see this Help article.

For iOS users:

If an error message appears when you restore data from iTunes or iCloud, please see this Help article.

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I got an error when I tried to transfer my account by selecting Log in with Facebook toggle

If you select Log in with Facebook and you see the error message "Failed to connect with external services. Please try again later," it's possible that the Facebook account you tried to log in with was different from the one registered to your LINE account. Please try logging in again after checking your Facebook account registered to LINE.

If you see this error message even though you didn't enter your Facebook login information, log out of your Facebook account from your device's web browser and the Facebook app, then try logging in with Facebook again.

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I got an invalid phone number error toggle

If the error "Invalid phone number" appears, please wait 24-48 hours from the last time the error appeared before trying again.

For the steps to change your registered phone number on LINE to a number from a different country, see this Help article.

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Account transfer issues