Login Error
My phone number can’t use in my country.
Horrendous
Can’t log in on a new device. Can’t reset. Can’t even log in with Google. Horrendous user experience.
Inexcusably archaic backup architecture
Every other messaging app figured out how to move your chats to a new phone years ago, but LINE is still stuck in 2010.
Transferring to a new phone completely wrecked my account. Because standard phone verification is a mess for US numbers, I was forced into the "Easy Transfer QR code." What they don't make obvious is that the QR code only copies the last 14 days directly. For the rest, it relies on whatever random cloud backup you have.
Turns out, LINE’s
background auto-backup had silently failed years ago without a single warning. Instead of flagging that the backup was years out of date, LINE just restored an ancient snapshot and instantly nuked the database on my old phone. Years of chat history, shared memories, and conversations were vaporized in seconds, with zero warning and no way to get them back.
It is mind-blowing that an app this massive still uses software architecture so fragile that it wipes your local data without asking. If you actually care about keeping your chat history maybe consider another app.
Transferring to a new phone completely wrecked my account. Because standard phone verification is a mess for US numbers, I was forced into the "Easy Transfer QR code." What they don't make obvious is that the QR code only copies the last 14 days directly. For the rest, it relies on whatever random cloud backup you have.
Turns out, LINE’s
background auto-backup had silently failed years ago without a single warning. Instead of flagging that the backup was years out of date, LINE just restored an ancient snapshot and instantly nuked the database on my old phone. Years of chat history, shared memories, and conversations were vaporized in seconds, with zero warning and no way to get them back.
It is mind-blowing that an app this massive still uses software architecture so fragile that it wipes your local data without asking. If you actually care about keeping your chat history maybe consider another app.
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Worst app when you buy a new phone
Do i need to say more? Over complicating transferring account to new device. Other messaging app, you are log in, verify and done. This app is useless when it comes to that.
No way to sign in
I can’t sign in because I don’t have my old device.
Nor can I creates new account because phone number not allowed in USA, and my apple account is already assigned to the account it won't let me sign in to. Major fail!
Nor can I creates new account because phone number not allowed in USA, and my apple account is already assigned to the account it won't let me sign in to. Major fail!
