Hello. This is Shiho.
Today’s topic is “[LINE] How to transfer chat history when you change your mobile model from iPhone to Android, or from Android to iPhone”
You cannot restore your LINE chat history between iOS and Android without transferring the data because they use different OSs.
Therefore, methods to save your chat history will be saving as a text file on your old mobile, or sending the text file on Email, or saving on something like “Evernote”, etc.
Contents
Attach chat history as a text file
I am going to take an example for Android version of LINE.
Open the chat room which you want to save
Tap “V” icon, and tap “Chat Settings”
Tap “Backup Chat History”
Tap “Backup as a Text File”
You will be proceeded to a page where you can create an Email.
The chat history has already been attached as a text file.
Enter an Email address where you want to send the text file to, and send it (or simply save draft).
Saving chat history will be completed.
3-2. Save a chat history as a text file on “Evernote”
Saving on something like an app called “Evernote” will be also useful.
Here, I am also going to take an example for Android version of LINE.
Open the chat room which you want to save
Tap “V” icon, and tap “Chat Settings”
Tap “Backup Chat History”
Tap “Backup as a Text File”
And then, let’s select “Add to Evernote”
The chat history will be attached as a text file and saved on “Evernote”.
Tap “More” icon and tap “View” to view the contents.
You will be using a text viewer to see the chat history. (I am using “DB Text Editor” this time)
This is how you can save a chat history as a text file.
You cannot see or save any stickers or photos.
Refer to the following feature for more details.
Backup important chats using “Keep”
This method does not suit those who want to save all the chat history.
However, you can backup and save selected chats for you using “Keep” function.
Merit of “Keep” is that you can have a look at the data you have done “Keep” soon after your mobile model change.
Furthermore, the setting process is pretty easy.
However, the demerits are you can only save as a text file and the contents do not show you the senders’ names of the chats on default settings.
The process
Simply tap and select a message which you want to save
And then, tap “Save in Keep”
You can tick and select multiple messages at once.
You can check the saved messages on LINE on your new mobile.
Open your own profile page from “Friends” list to open its pop-ups
Tap “Keep”
The messages are saved like below.
You can edit the messages, so adding the names of senders might help you to review afterwards.
i have a line account on my laptop and iphone and recently I bought a new mobile phone.Does the chat history on my laptop be deleted if ever I will be using an android phone this time for the same line account?
yes, it will be deleted
LINE app is allowed to have one account regardless of devices except logging in PC
Hi, thanks for the information, at this time I want to switch my line account from android phone into an iphone, and I do want to backup some chat history. your information helps me a lot, but can you explain how to restore the chat history after that? since your explanation is only about doing the back up, I need to know how to restore it when I have finished doing the back up.
thanks.