The "External app access" setting

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When your friends on LINE use external apps (e.g. apps offered by companies other than LY Corporation), those apps ask LINE whether it can access your profile information. The External app access setting lets you allow or deny such access.
Note: Your profile information includes your LINE display name, profile photo, status message, and uniquely assigned internal identifier (a unique number that LINE gives each user).

If you enable this setting, external apps will be able to access your LINE profile information, which is used in the friend requests and display of names in rankings for those apps.

For your reference, LINE Games and other LINE services can access your profile information regardless of your External app access setting.

For more information, see the LY Corporation Privacy Policy.

To change the External app access setting:
1. Tap the Home tab > Settings > Privacy.
2. Tap External app access.

Depending on which option you choose, the following settings will apply.

Always allowed
Access to your profile information is always allowed to external apps.

Only for mutual LINE friends
Access to your profile information is only allowed to external apps used by your mutual friends on LINE.

Never allowed
Access to your profile information is never allowed.