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If you have troubles on LINE and you want to quit LINE, you need to delete your LINE account.
Uninstalling LINE app is not enough to completely quit LINE.
Today, I will show you the whole process to quit LINE.
In details, I will cover the followings.
How to delete your LINE account
Will it be notified to your friends’ on LINE if you delete your LINE account?
Will the data history be remained or deleted?
Is it possible to come back to the same LINE account even if you deleted the account before?
Contents
What does “deleting LINE account” mean?
Once you delete your LINE account, the followings cannot be restored even if you sign up with a new account.
- Friends’ list (including Group list) on LINE
- Chat history on LINE
- Stickers and themes which you purchased
- Data you saved on “Keep”
- All the apps’ accounts related to LINE, such as “LINE Games”
Unlike Facebook, there is no “Deactivate your account” function on LINE. The function is that you can temporarily deactivate your account and come back to the same account in the future.
Therefore, please consider well before you proceed to deleting your LINE account.
Only the people who never want to use LINE or who want to completely reset LINE and start with a new account should delete your LINE account.
Will it be notified to your friends’ on LINE if you delete your account?
If you delete your LINE account, you will be deleted from your friends’ “Friends” list on LINE.
On your friends’ “Chat” list, a message “Empty Room” will be shown.
If you are in “Groups” on LINE, a message “(your name) left the group” with the time will be shown on their group chat room.
However, the fact you deleted your account will not be notified to your friends on LINE at any cases.
In other words, your friends will not know that you deleted your account until they open LINE chat room.
Chat history, albums and notes you shared will be remained on your friends’ chat room. (If you want to delete them, you need to delete before deleting your account)
How to delete your LINE account
The process is the same for both Android and iPhone users.
You cannot delete your LINE account on LINE PC.
Open LINE app
Tap “More”, “Settings”, and then “Account”
Tap “Delete My Account”
Once you tap the red box, you cannot come back.
Read the explanation very carefully.
And if you are sure that you want to delete, tap “Delete My Account”
Uninstall LINE app to deactivate your account temporarily → How to restore the same account
If you want to be away from LINE for a while, what can you do?
One of the suggestions is that uninstalling LINE app without deleting your LINE account.
Even if you uninstall LINE app, unless you delete your LINE account, you can always install the app and log in with the same account.
Before that, you need to register your Email address and backup chat history on LINE.
Especially, if you forget registering your Email address, you will not be able to restore your account after your break.
After you complete the process, you will not get any messages from your friends on LINE.
It is like you suddenly disappear from LINE, but your account is alive. Whenever you want to come back to LINE, you can restore your account. After your restoration, you can get some data back, such as “Friends” list and stickers.
Of course you can restore the chat history from the backed up data (For Android users only).
What will happen when you “uninstall” LINE app – data you can restore and cannot restore [iPhone/Android]
- Register your Email address (required)
It is required to register your Email address beforehand to login to LINE with your account.
Open LINE app
Tap “More”, “Settings”, and then “Account”
Tap “Email Account Registration”
Put your Email address, and create a password
Tap “OK”
Go to your Email, and check “Verification code” which is just sent
Come back to your mobile, and put the code
Tap “Register”
Tap “OK”
Email address registration is completed.
Please do not forget the Email address and password.
I was wondering if when you delete your LINE account the chat history and pictures sent completely disappear for the other person ?
Thanks for your comment.
It will be deleted 100% on your phone, but still remain the other’s phone.
I was wondering if you delete Line and forget to register my email I will definitely not receive any message of pictures when I download it back but my question is will I get missed call notifications?
Hey, my question is if you delete Line and forget to register your email surely you won’t be able to receive any chats or picture but will you still get missed calls notifications?
How to recover contact and grup after deleting an account. I accidentally deleting my account. I still can log in using same email but no contact at all. Thank you.
Can on her my chat history back on my iPhone if I delete the app and then reinstall it?
Hi. I have an ioad and macbook so today i checked line on my phone and the ipad was open. I have a note on my phone saying i cant use line there and all my inifo will be deketed. Haw can i stop it?