News for Developers

Account Kit services no longer available starting in March

Starting in March of next year, we will no longer offer the app login product Account Kit. In order to provide our valued developers and partners with adequate time to prepare for the change, the deprecation will occur in multiple phases:September 9, 2019: Account Kit will stop integrating with new apps. Existing integrations will continue to...

Business Tools 2019

September 9, 2019

Introducing WhatsApp verification codes for Account Kit

We're releasing the SDK to integrate WhatsApp verification into Account Kit for iOS and Android. Developers can now give people the option to use WhatsApp to send verification codes as an alternative to SMS for phone number login. This has been available on the web SDK since late 2018. Account Kit helps you grow your app or website by giving people...

Business Tools Platforms

April 30, 2019

F8 2017 Roundup

Today, more than 4,000 people joined us at our annual developer F8 conference in San Jose, California....

Business Tools Gaming

April 19, 2017

Connect Businesses and People F8 April 18

We believe the success of a business lies in establishing solid connections with people. Today at F8, we released Facebook Login and Account Kit product enhancements to help you better connect with people and engage them across different surfaces. We also introduced new ways to retain and recover customer accounts to maintain those relationships....

Business Tools 2017

April 19, 2017

Instant Verification

Account Kit is a Facebook-powered phone number and email login solution that is a complementary product to Facebook Login. Earlier this year we shared some of the positive results from developers who have implemented it to their apps, and as we continue to evolve the product, we're launching a new instant verification component that is available in...

Business Tools 2016

December 20, 2016

Account Kit Grows Globally

At F8 in April we introduced Account Kit, a solution that helps you quickly authenticate people and create accounts to help grow your app's audience. Account Kit is complementary to Facebook Login, giving people the choice to sign in with their phone numbers or email addresses without the need for a password or a Facebook account.Global Growth...

Business Tools 2016

August 25, 2016

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Account Kit helps you grow your app or website by giving people a choice to sign in with their phone number or email address without the need for a password. It's a complementary solution to Facebook Login and doesn't require people to have a Facebook account.Here's an example of how Account Kit works:...

Business Tools 2016

April 12, 2016

F8 Reveals New Developer Tools & Services

More than 2,600 developers joined us today in San Francisco at F8, our annual global developer conference, to hear about the new technologies and tools Facebook is building to help build, grow and monetize apps.Our community is more global than ever. Hundreds of thousands of developers are building with Facebook products, with more than 70% of them...

Business Tools Publishing

April 12, 2016