Every time during a special holiday, LINE will launch holiday-specific chat room special effects to make chatting with friends on LINE more festive. Christmas is coming next week, and super cute chat room special effects will be launched starting today. It is also announced that the background of the chat room will start to “snow” in a few days! The new avatar function that was launched just a few months ago now has a variety of Christmas-themed clothing and accessories, allowing everyone to dress up their virtual avatars in super cute Christmas outfits on LINE!
LINE Christmas special: Chat room special effects + festival-limited avatars + post emoticons (setting tutorial)
Christmas is coming, have you noticed that LINE has quietly launched Christmas-only chat room background effects starting today? This time, in addition to the chat room special effects, there are also many fun and cute Christmas-related contents. Let’s take a look at how to set it up!
LINE Christmas limited chat room special effects
Christmas is next week! The Christmas-limited chat room special effects that LINE users have been waiting for are officially launched starting today! Just enter the specified keyword in the chat room to wake up the special effects of the Christmas wreath in the background of the chat room. The special effect keywords this time are “Christmas”, “Gift” or “Xmas” (any combination of the above keywords is acceptable, and there is no uppercase or lowercase limit in English).
- Applicable date for iOS/Android mobile version: December 17, 2020 to December 26, 2020 08:00, Taiwan time
- PC version applicable date: December 17, 2020 to December 26, 2020 11:00 Taiwan time
- Corresponding versions: LINE iOS 9.15.0 (inclusive) or above, LINE Android 10.2.0 (inclusive) or above and Android 7.1 or above, LINE PC version 5.19.0 (inclusive) or above
Christmas snow special effects (trailer)
Although people are unable to go abroad to enjoy the snow this year due to the epidemic, it will snow again in the LINE chat room during the Christmas holiday! From 23:00 on December 23, 2020 to 11:00 on December 28, 2020, the snowy chat room background effect will be awakened by entering specified keywords on both iOS/Android mobile and computer versions.
- Applicable date for iOS/Android mobile version: December 23, 2020 23:00, Taiwan time to December 26, 2020 08:00
- PC version applicable date: December 25, 2020 10:00 to December 28, 2020 11:00 Taiwan time
- Corresponding versions: LINE iOS 9.15.0 (inclusive) or above, LINE Android 10.2.0 (inclusive) or above and Android 7.1 or above, LINE PC version 4.8.0 (inclusive) or above
Chat room background effects on/off tutorial
In the past, every time during a specific festival, LINE would launch exclusive special effects that were limited to the occasion. Although these special effects are cute, not all users want special effects in LINE chat rooms. LINE’s chat room background effects are turned on by default, but users can also choose to turn them off. Just go to the LINE homepage and select “Settings”, then go to “Chat” settings and turn off “Chat Room Background Effects”.
Virtual avatars launch Christmas-style clothing and headwear
At the end of September this year, LINE launched super cuteNew features of “Avatar” (click me to review), with Christmas just around the corner, we have also launched limited-time festive clothing that is perfect for the occasion! Simply select “Avatar” in your personal profile and create an avatar. From the decorative outfits, you can choose clothing options such as a full Christmas jumpsuit, a lost hat, a red Christmas hat, an elk antler scrunchie, and more.
After setting up, you can press “Finish” to update the avatar! Users can also return to edit and adjust their outfits at any time:
Virtual portraits can also be directly applied to photo stickers in personal profiles. After setting up the avatar’s photo in Christmas clothes, of course you also need to change the background! First click “Decoration” in your profile, then click Decoration to make the background theme button on the left:
You can choose a festive background in the background theme!
Post string emoticon icon small easter egg
In addition to making personal files and chats more festive, it also brings a little easter egg to LINE posts! The emoticons in the post string were also quietly replaced with Christmas-themed emoticons during this period:
Source:LINE Taiwan Official BLOG
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