Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v16.0 and Marketing API v16.0. As part of this release, we are highlighting changes below that we believe are relevant to parts of our developer community. These changes include announcements, product updates, and notifications on deprecations that we believe are relevant to your application(s)’ integration with our platform.
For a complete list of all changes and their details, please visit our changelog.
As part of our ongoing effort to improve API error response behavior, we have made the following changes.
As announced on Feb 01, 2023, 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 authenticity and legitimacy of a business or organization.
For apps created after Feb 01, 2023, we will begin rolling this out incrementally when new apps request advanced access. Apps created before Feb 01, 2023 with advanced access will be required to be linked to a verified business beginning on May 01, 2023. For a list of permissions that require business verification before they can be approved for advanced access, see this page.
In 2018, we launched Trip Consideration as a toggle travel advertisers could turn on that would prioritize ad delivery to people who have expressed intent to travel, but have not yet decided where to go. Trip Consideration worked in conjunction with existing targeting options to help advertisers deliver ads to the right people at the right time across Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network. Over the last 4 years, through continuous development of our machine learning systems and extensive testing, we are now able to help travel advertisers reach consumers that intend to travel and achieve similar performance goals without the toggle as an option.
Starting February 2nd 2023, the Trip Consideration toggle will be removed as an option in Ads Manager and the API for new campaigns. We’ve determined the toggle is no longer necessary and advertisers are expected to see the same performance without the toggle. In the interim, turning the toggle on or off is unlikely to noticeably impact campaign performance.
As machine learning models improve, the same goals and performance can now be achieved without the toggle as an option, so we believe it will provide a more streamlined experience to remove it.
In September 2018, we launched Flight Ads for Prospecting with success. In mid-2021, the product began to experience technical challenges and errors were identified that prevented campaigns from running efficiently. Therefore, we made the decision to proactively tell advertisers to pivot to other prospecting options. The retargeting capability still remains and can be used by advertisers.
If you or a partner of yours is currently using Flight Ads prospecting, we recommend any existing campaigns will be turned off by May 1, 2023.
We will be removing Instant Articles and the Instant Articles ad placement from Facebook starting April 20, 2023. We first introduced Instant Articles in 2015 to allow publishers to create interactive media articles on mobile and monetize them with ads on Facebook. However, news discovery is a small part of the Facebook experience for the majority of people who use the platform, and people tell us they want to see less of this content in their Feeds. As such, we are adjusting our investments to better align with user preferences.
The Instant Articles ad placement will no longer be available for new campaign creation within Ads Manager and the Marketing API starting April 20, 2023. After April 20, 2023, previous ad sets exclusively containing the Instant Articles placement will be paused, and all other ad sets that include the Instant Articles placement will be automatically updated to exclude the placement.
With this release, we are implementing a change which will result in the comments, reactions, and tags of the session user to be hidden. The “via” and “sharedposts” fields will return empty data for posts on user profiles as well. This change will only impact content posted to user profiles.
To enhance our security posture, we will be deprecating the Graph APIs support for TLS versions older than TLS 1.2. If using TLS 1.2, access using static RSA ciphers (AES128-GCM-SHA256, AES256-GCM-SHA384, AES128-SHA, AES256-SHA, DES-CBC3-SHA) will also be deprecated. API requests made with older TLS versions will receive an error after 90 days.
We will also reject web traffic to developer.facebook.com after May 1, 2023 from browsers using older TLS versions (older than TLS 1.2 and using static RSA ciphers [AES128-GCM-SHA256, AES256-GCM-SHA384, AES128-SHA, AES256-SHA, DES-CBC3-SHA] if using TLS1.2).
Last year, we updated the template category types in WhatsApp Manager and API to capture new use cases being sent on the WhatsApp Business Platform. On February 2, 2023, we will rename these template categories to more accurately reflect these use cases:
Businesses must use these updated template categories if creating or editing templates using Graph v16. On May 1, this change will apply to all versions, so any attempts to create or edit templates using any version must use these new categories. To ensure there is no disruption to the template creation or editing process, businesses and BSPs should prioritize updating their API calls to use new category values and templates no later than May 1, 2023.
Some other key dates and considerations are below:
We are simplifying recurring notifications by removing the option to specify message frequency starting v16. For more info, see the Messenger Changelog.
As part of Facebook’s versioning schedule for Graph API and Marketing API, please note the upcoming deprecations:
To avoid disruption to your business, we recommend migrating all calls to the latest API version that launched today.
As part of our 2-year deprecation schedule for Platform SDKs, please note the upcoming deprecations and sunsets:
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