News for Developers

Removing Developer Accounts with no active app roles

This blog post was updated on May 17, 2023 at 1:30pm PST to reflect that this change does not impact personal Facebook accounts.This blog post was updated on May 5, 2023 at 11:45am PST to reflect that this change does not impact personal Facebook accounts....

Developer Policy 2023

April 28, 2023

Announcing New Data Handling Questions for Advanced Access

Meta remains committed to protecting people’s privacy and personal data—a responsibility that we share with all developers in our ecosystem. Our policies already require developers to adhere to specific guidelines and procedures for handling personal data, and as part of our efforts to help ensure people’s personal data is handled appropriately,...

Developer Policy 2023

April 5, 2023

Developer Platform will now require Business Verification for Advanced Access

The Meta Developer Platform continues to invest in privacy and security for people, businesses and developers that use our technologies. As a part of these efforts, Meta will now ask developers to verify their businesses in order to get advanced access for any permission on the Meta Developer Platform as a part of our process to help confirm the...

Developer Policy 2023

February 1, 2023

Updates to Section 7 of the Developer Policies - Facebook Gaming Policies

We have updated Section 7 of the Developer Policies effective immediately. No change is required from the developers’ end, only awareness about these changes. As part of our continuous focus on improving developers’ experience, we have made some updates to the Section 7 of the Developer Policies which covers all Facebook Gaming Products, such as...

Developer Policy Gaming

December 8, 2022

Access Levels for Gaming Apps

Meta is continuously making strides to further safeguard people’s data and improve experiences on our platform. Building on changes previously announced in Graph API v11 update, today we are announcing the rollout of access levels for Gaming developers, an update to how developers control the level of data access with regard to permissions and...

Developer Policy Developer Tools

November 1, 2022

Upcoming Restriction Period for US ads about social issues, elections, or politics

In recent years, Meta has developed a comprehensive approach to protecting elections on our technologies. These efforts continue in advance of the US 2022 Midterms, which you can read more about in our Newsroom. Implementing a restriction period for ads about social issues, elections or politics in the USConsistent with our approach during the US...

Business Tools Developer Policy

September 28, 2022

Updating Special Ad Audiences for housing, employment, credit advertisers

On June 21, 2022 we announced an important settlement with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that will change the way we deliver housing ads to people residing in the US. Specifically, we are building into our ads system a method designed to make sure the audience that ends up seeing a housing ad more closely reflects the...

Business Tools Developer Policy

August 15, 2022

Introducing an Update to the Data Protection Assessment

Over the coming year, some apps with access to certain types of user data on our platforms will be required to complete the annual Data Protection Assessment. We have made a number of improvements to this process since our launch last year, when we introduced our first iteration of the assessment. The updated Data Protection Assessment will...

Developer Policy 2022

August 9, 2022

An Update to Section 10 of our Platform Terms

We’ve made a number of changes to further safeguard people’s data, including: improvements to App Review, updates to our Platform Terms and Developer Policies, and launching Data Use Checkup and the Data Protection Assessment. Today we are announcing an update to Section 10 of the Meta Platform Terms that amends our agreement in respect of the...

Developer Policy 2022

July 11, 2022