News for Developers

Deadline For Mandatory Platform Compliance Requirements

Update October 24: If you have received an enforcement warning alert and email but have been unable to respond due to app contact email access or otherwise, please check your dev alerts. If you are in your enforcement warning period, you will receive a dev alert with an alternate way to contact us. Submitting via the form provided will...

Developer Policy Platforms

October 21, 2021

Enhancing our developer policies to strengthen platform integrity

Today, I’m pleased to announce two enhancements to our Developer Policies. Both of these changes are designed to further strengthen the integrity of our platform, and provide additional clarity and detail for developers. First, we’re updating our policy regarding how developers implement Facebook Login, including a requirement for all apps to...

Developer Policy Platforms

September 16, 2021

Introducing Data Protection Assessment

Update on 8/13/2021: We have added additional guidance regarding the Data Protection Assessment here. Today, July 22, 2021, we’re sharing our latest initiative to safeguard how people’s data is being managed and protected on our platforms - the Data Protection Assessment. This is the next step among several initiatives we’ve introduced over the...

Developer Policy Platforms

July 22, 2021

How Our Focus on Privacy Impacts Developers

Today, we’re sharing some of the changes we’ve made to our privacy program over the past year and examples of the new ways we’re operating to ensure we protect people’s privacy. At Facebook we are committed to building a safer, more sustainable platform to strengthen trust with people and continue to drive long-term value for our developers....

Developer Policy Platforms

October 23, 2020

Required migration to token-based access for User Picture and oEmbed endpoints

As part of our Graph API 8.0 release, we announced breaking changes to how developers can access certain permissions and APIs. Starting 10AM PDT on October 23, 2020, developers need to migrate to token-based access in order to access User Picture and oEmbed endpoints for Facebook and Instagram. This post outlines these changes and the necessary...

Business Tools Developer Policy

October 14, 2020

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