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Profile

Your profile screen is shown when you tap your profile icon or name shown at the top of the Home tab.
Note: You can also check a friend's profile by tapping their profile icon on your friend list from the Home tab or in your chat with them.

The information below appears in your profile.

• Your profile icon
• Your display name
• Your profile cover (including decoration items)
• Part of your status message

For more details about the information shown in your profile, as well as how to set or change it, see the following information.

Profile icon

1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
Note: Tap here to go to your profile settings from your smartphone.
2. Tap your profile icon.
3. Tap Edit at the top of the screen.
4. Tap Open camera, Select photo or video, or Profile Studio.
5. Edit the photo or video any way you like, then tap Done.
Note:
- On some Android devices, only still images can be set as your profile icon.
- See About the image-generating AI services in Profile Studio for details.

Display name

1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
Note: Tap here to go to your profile settings from your smartphone.
2. Tap

at the top right of the screen > Display name.
3. Enter a new display name, then tap Save.

Profile cover

Give your profile some extra personality by adding a profile cover.

To set a profile cover:
1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
2. Tap your profile cover.
3. Tap Edit at the top of the screen > Open camera, Select photo or video, or Decorate profile.
Note: If you've already set a profile cover, selecting Delete profile cover will reset it to the default photo.
4. After making the necessary edits, tap Done or Save.

Open camera/Select photo or video

If you want to set a video, you need to trim it and choose which part of the video you want to play.

Decorate profile

Note:
- This feature is available on iPhone 6s/6s Plus and newer devices.
- This feature is not available on Android devices with Intel x86 CPUs (e.g. some devices in the ASUS Zenfone series). Please contact the retailer where you purchased your device for information about the CPU it uses.

This feature lets you use different items to add flair to your profile and give it your own unique spin.

You can decorate your profile with the following items.

Profile themes
Choose a theme for your profile. Even with a theme selected, you can edit/add a profile cover and decoration items.

Stickers
Add emoji or the stickers you own to your profile.

You can use the following sticker types:
• LINE and BT21 official stickers
• Creators' stickers
• Custom stickers
• Message stickers
• Effect stickers

Widgets
The following widgets are available.

• Counter: Display the date of a special event or the number of days left until it happens.
• Photo frame: Frame your photos and hang them on your profile.
• Social media: Add links to your other social media accounts.

Text
Add text to your profile in the color and style of your choice.

Effects
Select an effect and apply it to your entire profile background.

You can also decorate your profile with the following steps.

1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
2. Tap Decorate.
3. Choose the items that you want to use and decorate your profile.
4. Tap Save.

You can edit the items you added by tapping them > edit icon

. To delete decorated items, tap an item > X icon

or Remove all at the top of the screen > Remove.

Birthday

If you register your birthday and choose to show it, your friends will be able to see it in your profile.
Note: Birthdays are only displayed to users in Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.

To set your birthday:
1. Tap the Home tab >

> Profile.
Note: Tap here to go to your profile settings from your smartphone.
2. Tap Birthday.
3. Set your birthday and tap OK or Done.
Note: If you don't want to display your birthday, turn Show my birthday OFF.

Status message

Your status message is a space for sharing your thoughts and feelings on LINE.

You can let everyone know how you're doing, or check your friends' status messages from your friend list.

To set your status message:
1. Tap the Home tab >

> Profile.
Note: Tap here to go to your profile settings from your smartphone.
2. Tap Status message.
3. Enter a message, then tap Save.

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Be advised

The in-app links in steps can only be accessed on your main device.

Your LINE ID is a unique key that lets other users find you on LINE. Your LINE ID isn't set when you sign up for a LINE account, and you can use LINE without setting one.

Setting a LINE ID lets others search for you and add you as a friend even if they don't know your phone number.
Note:
- In Japan, you must be at least 18 years of age and have completed age verification.
- The above link is only available in Japanese.

Topics covered
- Setting a LINE ID
- Checking/sharing your LINE ID

Setting a LINE ID:
To set your LINE ID, follow the steps below.

Be advised

- LINE IDs can only contain lowercase half-width alphanumeric characters, periods (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
- Once you set a LINE ID, it cannot be changed or deleted.

1. Tap the Home tab >

> Profile > ID or LINE ID.
Note: Tap here to go to your profile settings from your main device.
2. Enter your preferred ID and tap Check.
3. If you see the "This ID is available" message, tap Save or Use.
Note: If you see a message saying "This ID is unavailable" in step 3, it means that someone is already using that ID. In this case, please register a different ID.

If you see an error message, or if the LINE ID field doesn't change and remains blank, your device information may not be synced with the information on LINE's servers. Please try repairing your profile and settings data.

Checking/sharing your LINE ID:
To check your LINE ID, follow the steps below.

Attention

As stated in our Terms of Use, making your LINE ID public on the internet for the purpose of meeting other people is not allowed.

1. Tap the Home tab > Settings

> Profile.
2. Check what LINE ID is displayed in the ID or LINE ID field.
Note: Tap here to go to the LINE ID screen from your main device.

If you want to copy and share your LINE ID, tap Copy to the right of it. The copied LINE ID can be shared with friends by pasting it into places such as message text boxes, notes, and emails.

Also, you cannot check the LINE IDs of friends or acquaintances. If you want to know someone's LINE ID, have them share it with you using one of the above methods.

Useful info

If you don't want to be added as a friend with your LINE ID, turn off the Allow others to add me by ID setting. Be aware that if you turn this setting off, your friends and acquaintances will also become unable to search for you with your LINE ID.

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In Profile Studio, we offer the following.

• Various services that use AI to automatically generate images.
• MINI STUDIO, where you can set characters to your profile.
• A 3D avatar service called AlphaCrewz.

For details about how to use each service, see the following information.

AI services in Profile Studio

These are paid services that automatically generate images based on photos you select.
Note:
- You can use this feature with the latest version of LINE. (Update LINE to the latest version.)
- Not available on iPad.

LINE Coins are needed to generate images. For more information, see the following Help content.

Purchasing Coins

Generated images can be set as your LINE profile icon and shared with friends.

Follow the steps below to generate and use images from our AI services.

Generating images

1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
2. Tap Profile Studio > the AI service you want to use.
3. Tap the button at the bottom of the screen.
4. After checking the Photo guide, agree to the Terms of Use and policy outlined in Handling of Information, then tap Select photos.
5. Select your photos, then tap Choose or Upload.
6. Select a gender for your generated images, then tap Next.
Note: This step does not apply to AI Baby.
7. Select an image package, then tap Next.
Note: Please purchase more Coins if you don't have enough.
8. Confirm the details, then tap Purchase.

You'll receive a completion message from the LINE Profile Studio official account when your images have finished being generated.

Setting an AI image as your profile icon

1. Access the Your AI images screen by either:
• Tapping See images in the LINE Profile Studio official account message.
• Tapping the Home tab > your icon or name at the top of the screen > Profile Studio > silhouette icon

at the top of the screen.
2. Tap the package containing the image you want to set as your profile icon.
3. Select the image, then tap Set as profile at the bottom of the screen.
4. Edit the image to your liking and tap Done.
Note: If you don't want to post your profile icon change in your story, uncheck Share to stories.

Sharing AI images with your friends

at the top of the screen.
2. Tap the package containing the image you want to share.
3. Select the image, then tap

.
Note: To select multiple images, tap and hold an image or tap check mark

at the top of the screen.
4. Select who you want to share the image with, then tap Share.

Saving AI images

You can save generated images to your device.

To do so:
1. Access the Your AI images screen by either:
• Tapping See images in the LINE Profile Studio official account message.
• Tapping the Home tab > your icon or name at the top of the screen > Profile Studio > silhouette icon

at the top of the screen.
2. Tap the package containing the image you want to save.
3. Select the image, then tap download icon

at the bottom of the screen.
Note: To select multiple images, tap and hold an image or tap check mark

at the top of the screen.

MINI STUDIO

You can set LINE FRIENDS and other characters to your LINE profile.

To do so:
1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
2. Tap Profile Studio > MINI STUDIO.
3. Tap Allow.
Note: You only need to do this the first time you follow these steps.
4. Select the character you want to use.
5. Tap Set as profile > OK.

A special badge will also appear at the bottom right of your profile icon when you set a character as your profile icon with MINI STUDIO.

AlphaCrewz

AlphaCrewz is LINE's 3D avatar service.

To set an avatar you created on AlphaCrewz to your profile:
1. Tap the Home tab > your icon or display name at the top of the screen.
2. Tap Profile Studio.
3. Tap AlphaCrewz.
4. Install the AlphaCrewz app and sign up for the service.
Note: You only need to do this the first time you follow these steps.
5. Follow the instructions on the AlphaCrewz app and create an avatar.
6. Make any additional changes via your LINE profile settings, then tap Done.

For more information, please see the AlphaCrewz Help website.

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Updates to your profile or cover photo are posted to your story by default. If you don't want an update to be shared in your story, uncheck Share to stories at the bottom of the photo editing screen.

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To turn background animations on or off:

1. Go to the Home tab and tap Settings.

2. Tap Chats and turn Background animations ON or OFF.

When you turn off background animations, seasonal event animations will no longer appear in chat rooms. This means the following animations will no longer appear:

• Animations that appear when a chat room is opened

• Animations that appear when a keyword is sent in a chat room

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