News for Developers

Data Use Checkup Rolling Out Broadly to Facebook Platform Developers

Maintaining a safe, thriving developer ecosystem is critical to our mission of giving people the power to build community and bringing the world closer together. Recently, we have made changes to simplify our Platform Terms and Developer Policies so businesses and developers clearly understand their shared responsibility to safeguard data and...

Developer Policy Platforms

September 10, 2020

Simplifying Our Platform Terms and Developer Policies

Over the last several years, we’ve changed how we handle data and how we hold our partners accountable for accessing and managing data. We’ve restricted access to APIs, enhanced app review, launched an app developer investigation and most recently, formalized our agreement with the FTC. To ensure developers have the tools and information they need...

Developer Policy 2020

July 1, 2020

Introducing Early Testing of Data Use Checkup

Protecting people’s data is a responsibility we share with all developers on our platform. Last year, we announced a new framework for protecting people’s privacy and the information they choose to share. Since then, we’ve changed not only how Facebook handles data, but also how we hold our partners accountable for handling data obtained from...

Developer Policy Platforms

April 8, 2020

New API Release Process

On Friday, November 2nd, as part of our ongoing work to enhance privacy and security on the Facebook platform, we're implementing additional steps to our API release process, which may likely lead to a decrease in the number of APIs that we'll ship in the next few months. This new process may slow down the development of some Facebook platform...

Developer Policy Platforms

November 1, 2018

App Review Deadlines - Reminder

In July, we announced the App Review deadlines. Today, we're sending a friendly reminder of the App Review submission deadline for Facebook Login permissions, as well as announce an App Review submission deadline for 2 APIs. The summary of deadlines is below, with additional details following. August 1, 2018: Deadline to re-request: Facebook...

Developer Policy Platforms

October 11, 2018

Manage App Roles and Get Notifications in Facebook Business Manager

This year at F8, we announced a new way to separate your personal Facebook profile from your apps. This was in response to feedback from the developer community, asking for a way to manage apps without using a personal Facebook account (or creating a fake account, which violates our terms).Now you can manage app roles in Business Manager via...

Business Tools Developer Policy

August 30, 2018

Advanced Matching in Pixel

As an enhancement to our existing advanced matching, we've released an automatic version of advanced matching for the Facebook pixel. This version is designed to help advertisers easily leverage their customer data to track more conversions and build larger remarketing audiences. Advanced matching includes two methods: manual (existing) and ...

Business Tools Developer Policy

July 20, 2018

Requiring HTTPS for Facebook Login

To increase the security of apps and websites using Facebook Login, we're making an important update for the handling of all Facebook Login access tokens. A new “Enforce HTTPS” setting for Facebook Login is now available in your App Dashboard. When turned on, it requires all Facebook Login redirects to use HTTPS, and all Facebook JavaScript SDK...

Business Tools Developer Policy

June 8, 2018

Introducing Tools to Help Developers and Businesses Protect People's Privacy

Today we are announcing two new features to help developers and businesses better protect people's privacy and respond to their privacy requests. First, we're providing a callback URL to automate people's requests for their data to be deleted. We are also providing companies subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a way to provide...

Business Tools Developer Policy

May 25, 2018