We'd like to inform you about the following two service outages regarding the Home tab of the LINE app. These issues have now been resolved. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.
- An issue with some of the "Pinned services" being removed
- An issue with "Pinned services" being changed to default settings
Details of each outage are as follows.
1. An issue with some of the "Pinned services" being removed
Period of the outage
May 21, 2020 - October 16, 2022 JST (GMT+9)
Cause of the outage
An issue with LINE for iOS from 10.8.0
to 12.17.0
.
Impact
There was a problem with some users who met all of these conditions:
- A user uses LINE for iOS.
- A user uses LINE version from
10.8.0
to 12.17.0
. - A user has added services to the "Pinned services" of the LINE Home tab.
Details
In the Home tab of LINE for iOS version 10.8.0
or later, the "Pinned services" weren't updated correctly and the services were unpinned when it failed to retrieve the data from the service list. This issue has been resolved in LINE for iOS version 12.17.1
or later, which has been available since October 17, 2022.
2. An issue with "Pinned services" being changed to default settings
Period of the outage
- LINE for iOS: May 19, 2022 - November 1, 2022 JST (GMT+9)
- LINE for Android: October 3, 2022 - October 24, 2022 JST (GMT+9)
Cause of the outage
- An issue with LINE for iOS from
12.7.0
to 12.17.1
. - An issue with LINE for Android from
12.16.0
to 12.17.2
.
Impact
There was a problem with some users who met all of these conditions:
- A user uses LINE for iOS or LINE for Android.
- A user uses LINE for iOS version from
12.7.0
to 12.17.1
or LINE for Android version from 12.16.0
to 12.17.2
. - A user has added services to the "Pinned services" of the LINE Home tab.
Details
In the Home tab of LINE for iOS version 12.7.0
or later or LINE for Android version 12.16.0
or later, when logging in again to reinstall the LINE app or transfer the account, the pinned services were changed to the default settings. On LINE for iOS, this issue only occurred when there was an error in the process of retrieving the "Pinned services" settings when logging in.
This issue has been resolved in LINE for iOS version 12.18.0
or later, which has been available since November 2, 2022, for LINE for iOS and since October 25, 2022, for LINE for Android.
Notes
Once the services have been unpinned or changed due to these outages, they won't be restored automatically. To re-add the services, the user must manually add the services to the "Pinned services". Users affected by these issues will be notified individually via service messages.
We'll continue to improve the quality of its services to prevent future outages. Thank you for your understanding.