News for Developers

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 01 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 08 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

New Privacy Compliance and Protections for GDPR

FB SDK Update Enables Automatic Event Logging Delay - June 28, 2018 We released a new Facebook SDK feature that allows developers to delay collecting automatically logged events until they acquire user consent. This includes events such as app installs and app launches. Developers need to upgrade to the the latest Facebook SDK version, either iOS...

Business Tools Developer Policy

May 10 2018

Day 1 of F8 2018: Developer News Roundup

Today, developers, creators and business leaders from around the world gathered in San Jose, California to participate in F8, our annual developer conference, to experience Facebook's new breakthrough technology and explore more ways to bring the world closer together. If you couldn't join us in person, or watch online, don't worry, we got you...

Augmented Reality Business Tools

May 01 2018

Facebook Login Updates to Further Protect Privacy

In our continuing work to strengthen people's trust with Facebook and provide developers with tools to create an even better user experience, we are making the following updates to Facebook Login:...