This Help article will explain the messages sent from the LINE official accounts of companies you aren't friends with.
Topics covered
- About messages from the official accounts of companies you didn't add as friends
- How notification messages work
- About messages to verify your phone number
- Turning off notification messages
About messages from the official accounts of companies you didn't add as friends:
You may get notification messages from the official accounts of companies. These are messages for things like package delivery dates and when bills are due.
These notification messages let you receive helpful information without having to add the official accounts of individual companies as friends on LINE.
Useful info
The name of a company's official account has a gray, blue, or green icon next to it, and the type can be distinguished by the icon color.
Note: The link above is only available in Japanese.
To make sure that a notification message is from an official account, check to make sure it has an icon with one of these colors.
How notification messages work:
Companies request to send messages on LINE based on their customers' phone numbers that they have on file. A notification message will be sent if we've confirmed at the time of sending that:
• The phone number the company has on file matches your phone number registered to LINE.
• Your LINE account allows notification messages.
• Your LINE account has not blocked the company's official account.
For security reasons, we use a special method to change (encrypt) the phone numbers sent to us by companies. We only use the relevant information to send messages to the correct user, and delete the information immediately after finishing confirmation.
Only notification messages that we have determined to be valid and appropriate are sent out to users, and messages will not be sent for the purpose of advertising.
Note: You may need to verify your identity with your phone number via an official account that we operate to have these notification messages sent to you.
About messages to verify your phone number:
The message to verify your phone number is for verifying your phone number regularly (every 180 days) to confirm that the phone number registered to your LINE account is the same as your currently contracted phone number.
Note: Once verified, the message won't be sent again for 180 days.
The phone number shown in the phone number verification message is shown in the following format: (international calling prefix)(country code)(phone number, minus any 0 at the beginning).
Note: To protect your privacy, only part of your phone number is shown (e.g. a Japanese phone number of “070-0000-0000” would be shown as “+817****00000”).
If your phone number registered to LINE is different from your currently contracted phone number:
• You'll become unable to receive helpful notification messages (e.g. package delivery dates, bills that are due) from the official accounts of companies.
• You may
suddenly become unable to use LINE.
For the steps to check or change the phone number registered to your account, see the following Help article.
Checking/changing your phone numberTurning off notification messages:
If you don't want to receive notification messages, do either of the following.
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Turn OFF notification messages.
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Block the relevant LINE official account.
Note: The “LINE” official account is our system account and cannot be blocked.
, you won't be able to use the call feature because it wasn't set up.
Let us know if we can make it better.
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