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The group feature is a convenient way to let you chat with multiple friends at the same time. You can create and invite people to your group for various purposes, such as staying connected with family, friends, or colleagues.

Topics covered

- Creating groups

- Inviting friends to groups and canceling their invitations

- Joining groups/declining group invitations

Creating groups:
1. Tap the Home tab > at the top right of the screen > Create a group.
2. Select the friends you want to add to the group and tap Next.
3. Enter a group name and tap Create.

About the Members join automatically setting:
The Members join automatically setting lets you choose whether the friends you invite to a group are added automatically, or asked if they would like to join first.

If you create a group with this setting turned off, you will not be able to turn it on afterwards.

If Members join automatically is turned on:
The friends you invite will automatically be added to the group.

If Members join automatically is turned off:
The friends you invite will receive an invitation message, from which they can choose to Join or Decline. Friends who received an invitation message won't become official group members until they select Join in their invitation.
Note: If someone declines, they will continue to appear as a pending member and the person who created the group will not be notified.


Inviting friends to groups and canceling their invitations:
When a user joins a group, they can view Note and Album posts that were made during the time their membership was pending, but will not be able to see any chat messages posted before they joined.

The maximum number of people that can be invited per group differs depending on the Members join automatically setting.

If the setting is turned off:
Up to 499 people can be invited to a group (for a total of 500 group members when including the group's creator).

If the setting is turned on:
Up to 99 people can be invited to a group (for a total of 100 group members when including the group's creator).

To invite a friend to a group:
1. Tap at the top of a group chat > Invite.
2. Use one of the methods below to invite new members.

• From your friend list, select the friends you want to invite and tap Invite.
Note: Friends who have already been invited or are already in the group will appear grayed out.
• Tap QR code and share the QR code that appears with the people you want to invite.
• Tap Invite link > Copy link and share the link with the people you want to invite.
• Tap Email and send the QR code to the people you want to invite via email.
• Tap Text message > OK and send the invite link to the people you want to invite via text message.

The name of the person sending the invite will appear as their display name set on LINE in the invitation email/text message. If an issue such as invitees not receiving your invitations occurs, please contact your mobile service provider.
To cancel an invitation: 1. Tap at the top of a group chat > Members.
2. Under Pending members, tap the member whose invitation you want to cancel.
3. Tap Cancel.


Joining groups/declining group invitations:
1. Tap the Home tab > Groups > Group invitations > the name of the group you've been invited to.
2. Tap Join or Decline.

If you declined an invitation by mistake, you need to have a group member cancel the invitation and then invite you again.
See also:
I get an error when creating/deleting/inviting others to groups

Group settings have features that can be changed by anyone in the group and features that only you can change.

Topics covered

- Changing group names

- Changing group members' display names

- Changing group profile icons/cover photos

Changing group names:
1. Tap the Home tab > Groups > the group you want to configure.
2. Tap > Group name.
3. Enter the group name you want to set and tap Save.


Changing group members' display names:
To change a group member's display name, see the following Help content.

Checking/changing your friends' display names


Changing group profile icons/cover photos:

Changing group profile icons

1. Tap the Home tab > Groups > the group you want to configure.
2. Tap > the group's profile icon.
3. Tap Open camera or Select profile icon > Select photo.
4. Take or select a photo.
5. Adjust the photo size on the preview screen, then tap Next.
6. Edit the photo any way you like, then tap Done.

 Useful info

You can also set a profile icon by selecting a photo shown on the Group profile icon screen and tapping Done or .

Changing group cover photos

1. Tap the Home tab > Groups > the group you want to configure.
2. Tap and hold the cover photo.
3. On iOS, tap Take group cover photo or Change profile cover photo.
    On Android, tap Change profile cover photo.
4. Take or select a photo.
5. Adjust the photo size on the preview screen, then tap Next.
6. Edit the photo any way you like, then tap Done.

See also:
Convenient notification settings

To leave a group on LINE, you can either leave the group on your own, or delete it by removing all group members, including yourself.

Topics covered

- Leaving a group

- Deleting a group

- Blocking a group

Leaving a group:

1. Tap at the top of a group chat > Leave.
2. Tap Leave or OK.
Note: When you leave a group, a notification saying "(You) left the group" will be displayed to everyone in the group.


Deleting a group:
To delete a group, first remove all of the other group members, then leave the group yourself.
1. Tap at the top of a group chat > Members.
2. Tap Edit.
3. On iOS, tap to the left of the members you want to delete > Remove.
    On Android, tap Delete to the right of the members you want to delete > OK.
4. Tap at the top of the group chat > Leave.
5. Tap Leave or OK.


Blocking a group:
There is no feature to block a group directly with how LINE is designed. Please try the following alternative methods.
Note: You can block individual members of the group chat. However, their messages will still appear in the group chat.

• Leaving the group: By leaving the group, you will no longer receive messages from the group chat.
• Turning off notifications for the group: By turning off notifications for a group, you will no longer be notified whenever you receive chat messages from that group.
• Hiding the group: By hiding the group, it will no longer appear on your chat list. However, if you receive a chat message from the group, it will reappear on the chat list.

See also:
I get an error when creating/deleting/inviting others to groups