An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login
what you need to know [Update] Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Facebook SDK Issue Again Causing Numerous iOS Apps to Crash or Freeze Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : iOS apps crashing on opening - here's a fix Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Spotify, Waze and other popular iOS apps hit with wave of crashes Nathan Ingraham / Engadget : A Facebook SDK issue caused Spotify and other popular iOS apps to crash Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : Facebook Software Development Kit Causing Spotify, Twitter, and More to Crash Friday Morning Tony Owusu / TheStreet : Spotify Among Apps Said to Be Hurt by Facebook SDK Issue Jacob Siegal / BGR : Tons of iOS apps are crashing right now due to an issue with Facebook Georgina Torbet / Digital Trends : Popular iOS apps, including Spotify and TikTok, go down due to Facebook issue Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Spotify, Viber, and other services are down for many users Max Parker / Trusted Reviews : Is Spotify down? Music streaming working again on iOS Sean Endicott / Android Central : After a brief downtime, Spotify is working again in the U.S. and Europe Wasif Ahmed / Dot Esports : PUBG Mobile World League season zero delayed one day Tweets: Spotify Status / @spotifystatus : Something's out of tune. We're currently investigating, and we'll keep you posted here! John Sundell / @johnsundell : Facebook's SDK is once again causing numerous iOS apps to crash on launch. If you're still voluntarily putting code from a company that “moves fast and breaks things” into your app, then I would seriously consider not doing that 🙂 https://github.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : At least on the bright side, for a short while this morning none of your apps were quietly uploading your data to brokers and analytics firms without your knowledge. https://www.smh.com.au/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Lots of popular iOS apps like Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder are crashing on iPhones today because of a Facebook iOS SDK issue. This is the second time this has happened in recent weeks https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... @nathanblawrence : @ow To be clear, Facebook changed *Facebook*, developers had the same SDK embedded in their apps — which is also why I find it difficult to believe Apple will attempt to restrict these SDKs' use. That's not something easily detected or enforced unless it's directly targeted. Ty Smith / @tsmith : “What do you want to achieve? My company's app to not crash in production.” “What do you expect to happen? My app to work properly in production.” “What are the steps necessary to reproduce this issue? Open our app” https://github.com/... @ow : Facebook makes a change in its SDK that breaks a huge swath of iOS apps like Spotify and Tinder, and this is their public comment about it. I'd be surprised if Apple didn't step in with new SDK restrictions soon. https://twitter.com/... @mirrortech : Spotify is now back up and running following 2.5hr global outage https://www.mirror.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/... Maximiliano Firtman / @firt : Fact check: the native AppStore space is not safer than the Web https://twitter.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : the cute answer everyone thinks is “derp delete Facebook” but nope, that doesn't solve this problem. it doesn't matter if you don't use facebook, plenty of your favorite apps use its SDK, as outlined in @nickstatt's report from the last time this happened: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : i thought people were joking when they said “blame zuck” for spotify not working this morning but it turns out they were not! https://thenextweb.com/... Matt / @mattk : Simple fix: don't use Facebook login. I never have, and never will. https://twitter.com/... Shona Ghosh / @shonaghosh : Filtering out traffic to Facebook servers seems to result in at least Spotify working again - so try switching off WiFi + switch on airplane mode and relaunching. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Pitts / @pitts_man : Isn't this the second time this has happened? At some point it's a problem for Apple as well. They need to undo this dependency in major apps. https://twitter.com/... Axel Rauschmayer / @rauschma : At the moment, Spotify does crash for me. Surprised that they use Facebook's APIs. https://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : Satan is giggling at this very moment, but keep on selling out your users to Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Jason Del Rey / @delrey : And Waze! I actually had to use google maps this morning https://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : finally we're free https://twitter.com/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : I love Techmeme. My apps were crashing and I had no idea why (did I do something?). Hit https://techmeme.com/ and now I know it's not. my. fault. https://www.techmeme.com/... Shona Ghosh / @shonaghosh : Facebook confirms its SDK is causing apps to crash: “We're aware that some applications are currently affected by an issue in our Facebook iOS SDK. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”