Maybe 2 or 3 days ago. 

 

On my Line APP. All of the emojis have either disappeared or changed to a different style. There are far, far fewer now. And they're not half as good. 

 

I didn't manually update the APP, and don't believe I changed any settings. 

 

Did this happen to anybody else?

 

Is it possible to get back to the old emojis? 

SOLVED

 

It wasn't just me.

 

I copy and pasted the title of this conversation into google and the answer came up on another website.

 

Posted 23 hours ago

 

 

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So it seems the default messaging app here in Japan - LINE had a big rearrangement of their emoji, and I and many others missed the memo. Not the big stickers, but the smaller emoji. The one huge set of LINE emoji that we had, has gone and has been replaced by a very simple set. But you can get your favorite ones back. You have to download them set by set. Naturally, they want you to buy the premium emoji sets, so if you go to the sticker shop, you get bombarded with premium offerings, and it is impossible to find the free ones, but there is an easy way. On the line "home" page, go to the top right and the Settings ⚙️ , go to stickers, my stickers, then "my emoji. Tap the one basic new set that will be there, and tap the word "LY corporation" it will expand to the full sets for you to download at your pleasure.

 

I followed the instructions and all the old free emojis are back.

 

SOLVED

 

CLOSE this thread @Crossy

Good call, i wondered what happened to them, got most back, not all

From that link - just did this and it worked: (need to do it on your phone app though, not on a PC)
On the line "home" page, go to the top right and the Settings ⚙️ ,
go to stickers,
my stickers,
then "my emoji" (or just "emoji" at the top-right)
Tap the one basic new set that will be there, and tap the word "LY corporation" (small letters near the top)

it will expand to the full sets for you to download at your pleasure.

You have to download each set you want and when the download is complete simply click the "back" arrow (twice) to get back to the list of sets and pick the next one you want to download. 
Note the top 4 are "premium" sets that cost 100 coins each. Most of the rest are free.

opening a new thread - (just for info) my Line app deleted access for the past 12 months chat messages (back and forward), between me and a friend. i did not select to back up into my Google storage.  see my new topic on this, tks.