News for Developers

Meta Joins the App Defense Alliance

This week, we announced that Meta is formally partnering with Google and Microsoft as the founding steering committee of the newly restructured App Defense Alliance. The Alliance aims to raise the overall security posture of app ecosystems by leveraging industry standards for app security. With a member community spanning 17 General and Contributor...

Developer Policy 2023

November 9, 2023

Data Handling Questions for Data Use Checkup

At Meta we are committed to protecting people’s privacy and ensuring developers understand their responsibility to safeguard people’s data. As part of these efforts, we will be implementing several updates over the coming year. Starting in January, developers with apps that have gone live with use cases or with advanced access to any permission or ...

Developer Policy 2023

November 8, 2023

Introducing New Distribution Model for Instant Games

Today, we are announcing that we will be creating a path for developers of Instant Games (IG) on Facebook to launch their games directly to people on Facebook, even if the game is in the early stages of development and historically would have been blocked by the Quality Guidelines. We'll also change the way games are distributed across our organic...

Developer Policy Gaming

November 3, 2023

Prepare for the latest update to the Data Protection Assessment

As part of our commitment to protecting people’s privacy, we update the Data Protection Assessment continuously in line with current privacy and security practices.In January 2024, we’ll be enhancing the Data Protection Assessment questionnaire by adding questions related to personnel security practices, audit logging, and security monitoring....

Developer Policy 2023

October 4, 2023

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