LINE Ends Support for Old App Versions on November 4: Check Yours Now

LINE Old Versions Support Ends November 4

LINE old versions support ends on November 4, 2026, for any app version older than 14.6.3 on iPhone and iPad, or older than 14.4.6 on Android. That is the cutoff LINE announced in its official notice, and the practical advice is simple: check your version today and update, rather than waiting to find out which features stop working first.

LINE's notice says it plans to end support, and it does not list exactly which features stop first. That vagueness is worth noting honestly. Some features may degrade gradually, some may stop outright, and the experience on an unsupported version is not something LINE promises to maintain. The sensible move is not to test the boundary. Update while everything still works, so you are not troubleshooting a dead app under pressure.

How to Check Your LINE Version

On LINE, go to Home, then Settings, then About LINE, and note your version number. Compare it to the cutoffs: iPhone and iPad need 14.6.3 or newer, Android needs 14.4.6 or newer. If your number is at or above the cutoff, this change does not affect you.

If you are below the cutoff, update LINE from the App Store or Google Play. If no update shows, update your phone's system first. LINE requires iOS or iPadOS 15.0 or newer, or Android 8.0 or newer, to run a supported version. Phones on those minimum systems can still meet the cutoff, but they cannot run the newest LINE: the most they can install is 14.6.3 on iOS 15 and 14.4.6 on Android 8.0 to 8.1.

What If Your Phone Is Too Old?

This is where the cutoff bites hardest. If your phone runs iOS or iPadOS 14.8.1 or earlier, or Android 7.1.2 or earlier, you need to update the system to the minimum first, then update LINE. If your phone cannot update to iOS 15 or Android 8.0 at all, then it cannot run a supported LINE version after November 4.

LINE's recommended setup for the latest version is iOS or iPadOS 18 or Android 11 or later, which tells you how far the app has moved from its oldest supported devices. If you are on a phone that old, the honest options are: update the system if the manufacturer offers it, move LINE to a newer device, or accept that support, and eventually functionality, will end on that phone.

There is one more warning worth passing on. LINE says that if an app goes without updates for a long time, you may not be able to restore data such as chat history. That is a reason to update before the deadline, not after, and to make sure your chats are backed up while the app still works properly. If you are moving LINE to a new phone, see How to Move WhatsApp Chats to a New Phone for the general pattern of chat migration, though LINE's own backup steps differ in detail.

Why Messaging Apps Do This

Cutting off old versions is unglamorous maintenance, but it has real reasons behind it. Old app versions carry old security code, old encryption behavior, and old assumptions about how servers work. Supporting them forever means testing every new feature against years of old clients, and it leaves users on versions with known flaws.

LINE is not alone here. Every major messaging app periodically raises its minimum version, and the pattern is always the same: a notice, a deadline, and a small group of users on very old phones who discover the change late. The difference with LINE is the size of its user base in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, where LINE is a daily utility, not a side app. For those users, a dead messaging app is not an inconvenience. It is a lost connection to family, work, and school groups.

What to Do Today

Do this in order, and it takes about five minutes:

• Open LINE, go to Home, Settings, About LINE, and check your version against 14.6.3 on iOS or 14.4.6 on Android.
• If you are below the cutoff, update from your app store now.
• If no update appears, check your system version and update it to at least iOS 15 or Android 8.0.
• Back up your chats while the app is still supported, so a later device move does not cost you history.
• If you help family members with their phones, check theirs too. The people most likely to be caught by this cutoff are the least likely to read the notice.

For context on how other apps are evolving this month, Apple Music's Android redesign in Apple Music 7.0 Brings Liquid Glass to Android shows the same pressure: apps move forward, and old versions get left behind.

The Bottom Line

LINE ending support for old versions on November 4 is not dramatic, but it is final for anyone below the cutoff. Check your version, update now, and back up your chats while everything works. Five minutes today beats a broken messaging app tomorrow, especially for an app as many people rely on as LINE.