News for Developers

API Updates and Important Changes

As part of our ongoing commitments to privacy and security, we are making updates to our platform. These updates include removing access to a number of APIs, updating our platform policies, and regularly evaluating an app's access to user permissions. A list of APIs that will be removed from the platform can be found here. Please review...

Business Tools Developer Policy

April 25, 2019

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 1, 2018

Facebook's Enhanced Developer App Review and Graph API 3.0 Now Live

As we shared in today's F8 keynote, we're re-opening app review, a process that Facebook uses as a way to help ensure the best possible Facebook experience for your app's audience. We made several updates to the review process that enables stronger enforcement of our Platform Policies.Our primary focus is building tools for the ecosystem while...

Business Tools Developer Policy

May 1, 2018

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

Building User Intent into the Open Graph

We created the Open Graph to help people express who they are through the apps they use. Over the past few months, we've introduced avarietyofimprovements to make the experience match user expectations and reflect how people use apps. Today, we're introducing explicitly shared actions to let apps notify us when a user wants to prominently share...

Business Tools Social Integrations

August 13, 2012