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We are excited to introduce you to a new feature called “LINE Meeting.” 

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LINE Meeting is an important step forward for group video calls, enabling you to access them through a URL, both via smartphone and desktop, in groups of up to 500 people. You can create meetings from a LINE chat room and then invite attendees to join, whether through a chat room or by sending them a URL. 


How to use LINE Meeting 

1) First, tap the camcorder icon in the upper right of a LINE chat room. Then tap “Create meeting” to start a meeting room. 

2) LINE offers an array of practical and unique backgrounds, filters and face effects for LINE Group Call, so feel free to fine tune your look before join a meeting.

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3) You may invite more people to join by tapping the first icon in the bottom left. 

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4) While you are using LINE Meeting call, do not hesitate to convert the meeting screen to Picture-In-Picture (PIP). This allows you to keep the meeting on in a floating window while you keep an eye on your LINE chat rooms. 

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Protecting your chats with “kick out”

LINE is dedicated to providing a safe user experience throughout our ecosystem of products and services, and LINE Meeting is no exception. To protect you, LINE Meeting URLs are complex and 32 characters long, ensuring that the only people who can join your conversations are those who know the URL and are supposed to be there. In addition, if an uninvited guest does manage to join, there is a feature called “kick out,” which enables you to get rid of them — just tap “Remove” to easily protect your chat. 

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Like many other LINE features, LINE Meeting is free! And it’s the ideal choice for both personal and business purposes. 

LINE Meeting is available for LINE, on smartphone versions 10.13.0 or later and LINE desktop versions 6.2.0 or later. So update your LINE to enjoy the new feature! 


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LINE Timeline is getting an exciting new feature called “Explore.”

With Explore, you not only can see your friends’ Timeline posts, but also other related content that you may like. And it also makes it easier to keep track of the content you like on Timeline with a new “Follow” feature.

Explore’s curated content is customized for each user based on your viewing history, letting you see publicly posted materials that fit your style and interests. That means the more you view, the more accurate the curation can be. 


How to use Explore
First, tap the planet icon in the upper right of Timeline, or you can also scroll down Timeline until you see the Explore section. 

Because the contents Explore shows you are based on what you’ve already indicated you like, there’s a good chance you’ll find it quite addicting. Plus, you can check out as much content as you like. Just scroll away!
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Another feature for you – Follow
In addition to Explore, we are also rolling out another new feature, Follow. Follow also works on Timeline and it lets you follow the accounts you discover using Explore without necessarily adding them as your friends on LINE. It’s a great way to subscribe to the content you most like. 

Tips to increase your follower numbers
1. Upload the content you want public on Timeline.
2. Change the setting to “ON” for the follow function. 
(Go to Setting > Timeline > Public post setting > Allow follow)
3. Manage your followers by displaying the number of followers/following.



Announcements

Being able to migrate accounts is a vital capability for most users, so they can preserve their data and continue to use their account smoothly after changing devices. 

However, since November 5, account migration will no longer be supported for LINE app versions 9.1.0 or lower. Therefore, if you are using LINE version 9.1.0 or lower, please update to the latest version immediately.

Go to https://line.me/update to update your LINE. 

(Note: For information on how to perform an account migration for a LINE version higher than 9.2.0, please refer to https://guide.line.me/en/migration/).

How to check your LINE version

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The gear icon on the home tab ＞ About LINE ＞ Current version 


How to update to the latest version
Either click the link https://line.me/update or scan the QR code below to update your version of LINE.  

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The following OS versions do not support LINE version 9.1.0 or lower. Users with these OS versions will not be able to create an account with LINE or perform an account transfer. 
・iOS 10 or lower 
・Android 4.4 or lower 

If you delete a LINE account or uninstall LINE app on a mobile device with these OS versions installed, you will not be able to use LINE again. Please note that you will not be able to retrieve LINE once you delete a LINE account or uninstall the LINE app from devices with those OS versions.  


How to check your OS version

1) iOS

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Settings > General ＞ About ＞ Software version

2) Android 

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Settings＞ Device information＞ Software version


When you replace your old device with a new one, as long as the new device has an OS version (iOS 10 or higher or Android 5.0 or higher) that supports the latest LINE version, you will be able to perform an account transfer and keep your data intact. 

※ In order to transfer a LINE account from an old device, set up your device to enable it. Find out how here: https://guide.line.me/en/migration/. 


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Wish you could find the info you need and change the settings more easily? Good news! We are happy to inform you that the chat menu in the latest version of the LINE app is getting an upgrade.


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The menu icon in the top-right corner of chat has been redesigned — before it had been a “V” icon, but with the latest update, it is now a “hamburger” menu (三, three horizontal lines).


Now you can access the feature settings, such as invite, note, album, and search, all in one place. It’s easier than ever to find the photos, video links and files that you shared in chat.


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Keep, LINE's free cloud storage, has gotten some new features and it's much easier to use.  

The new Keep features are available as of Android 9.10.0 and iOS 9.12.0.


Keep is a great tool for saving your important content, such as text, images and links, that were shared in a chat. You can access them anytime.

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In this Android version update, we have introduced new features, Collection and Favorite. Collection organizes your content and displays them beautifully. You can also Favorite your content to store it quickly. Read more

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LINE Labs periodically offers a range of beta features, allowing you to try out some of our latest ideas before they become an official part of the LINE app (but only for iOS).



Here’s the newest addition from LINE Labs, a type of picture-in-picture feature called Mini Browser.



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Simply swipe down the opened web browser to make it shrink so that you can see the web browser and your chat at the same time.



Now, there’s no need to click a link and close the web browser and go back and forth. You can keep the web browser open and chat at the same time, on the same screen.



Note: To enable this feature, make sure LINE Labs is turned on. Here's how to do so.


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LINE offers you a fun and convenient way to share your life with your friends, family and others. But sometimes, you don’t want your every thought or image to linger online forever. So, for those of you who’d like to take control of your memories and share something just for a short while, we present “Story.”

Using Story, you can share a moment in your daily life as a video, photo or text, just like a normal post on Timeline. However, a Story disappears 24 hours after you post it, allowing you to share more candidly than with a regular post. 

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LINE has added a most new feature that’s incredibly useful, especially for anyone who does much traveling – it’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR), letting you scan signs and other texts from within a LINE chat, and then translate it or share the text with others.  

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Since the OCR feature allows you to easily translate any recognized text, it can be quite handy in a wide range of situations, especially when traveling overseas, letting you understand the text on a billboard or sign, or the items on a restaurant menu. 



iOS/Android
In order to convert an image in a LINE chat room, tap image that contains the text and then press the OCR icon on the top right of the screen. 
 
To convert the text in an image saved on your smartphone, tap the image icon, select an image and tap the OCR icon on the top right of the screen. 
 

If you see a text in the real world that you would like to capture and convert, turn on the camera from within the LINE app and select “OCR” to take a picture.
  


On a PC
Right-click on the image shared in a LINE chat room, and select “convert to text.” 
 
Select a language on the top right of the screen to translate the text to the target language. Click the button at the bottom of the screen to copy or send the translated text. 

 

Compatible languages
Languages that can be recognized by OCR: 
Japanese, English, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Thai, Indonesian and Korean. 

Languages that can be translated: 
Japanese (JA), Chinese (Traditional) (TW), Chinese (Simplified) (ZH). Thai (TH), Indonesian (ID), Korean (KO), Spanish (ES), Portuguese (PT), German (DE), Russian (RU), Malay (MY), Vietnamese (VI), Arabic (AR), Farsi (FA), and Hindi (IH).

This feature can be used with LINE 9.6.0 and later. 


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Introducing a fun and very useful new function for the LINE messenger: “Chat Capture” (only for iOS). Using Chat Capture, you can easily take adjustable screenshots of any part of your chats, save them and share them. 

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This new feature has a lot of uses for your chats. Like when you need to discuss something sensitive and you don’t want to reveal who you were talking to. Or when you get a really nice message from a friend and you want to save the memory. There is no end of ways you can use Chat Capture to make your life easier. 


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