News for Developers

Simplifying Our Platform Terms and Developer Policies

Over the last several years, we’ve changed how we handle data and how we hold our partners accountable for accessing and managing data. We’ve restricted access to APIs, enhanced app review, launched an app developer investigation and most recently, formalized our agreement with the FTC. To ensure developers have the tools and information they need...

Developer Policy 2020

July 1, 2020

Introducing Early Testing of Data Use Checkup

Protecting people’s data is a responsibility we share with all developers on our platform. Last year, we announced a new framework for protecting people’s privacy and the information they choose to share. Since then, we’ve changed not only how Facebook handles data, but also how we hold our partners accountable for handling data obtained from...

Developer Policy Platforms

April 8, 2020

New API Release Process

On Friday, November 2nd, as part of our ongoing work to enhance privacy and security on the Facebook platform, we're implementing additional steps to our API release process, which may likely lead to a decrease in the number of APIs that we'll ship in the next few months. This new process may slow down the development of some Facebook platform...

Developer Policy Platforms

November 1, 2018

Facebook Login Tool for Third Party Developers

As we shared on Tuesday, we analyzed our logs for all third-party apps installed or logged into during the attack we announced on Friday. That investigation has so far found no evidence that the attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login. Any developer using our official Facebook SDKs — and all those that have regularly checked the validity...

Business Tools Developer Policy

October 5, 2018

Facebook Login update

We wanted to provide an update on the security attack that we announced last week. This was a serious issue and we worked fast to protect the security of people's accounts and investigate what happened. We fixed the vulnerability and we reset the access tokens for a total of 90 million accounts — 50 million that had access tokens stolen and 40...

Business Tools Developer Policy

October 2, 2018

Security Update

On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. We’re taking this incredibly seriously and wanted to let everyone know what’s happened and the immediate action we’ve taken to protect people’s security.Our investigation is still in its early stages. But it’s clear that...

Developer Policy 2018

September 28, 2018

Improved Facebook App Review Process

In May 2018, we announced that all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through a more comprehensive review to better protect people's Facebook information.In the coming months, we will begin proactively enrolling apps in the app review process, if you haven't already enrolled your app in the new process. You will receive an alert...

Developer Policy Platforms

September 20, 2018

Manage App Roles and Get Notifications in Facebook Business Manager

This year at F8, we announced a new way to separate your personal Facebook profile from your apps. This was in response to feedback from the developer community, asking for a way to manage apps without using a personal Facebook account (or creating a fake account, which violates our terms).Now you can manage app roles in Business Manager via...

Business Tools Developer Policy

August 30, 2018

An Update on Facebook App Review

Back in May, we announced that all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through a more comprehensive review to better protect people's Facebook information — with an August 1 deadline to submit for review for all existing apps. As a result, we are cutting off API access for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that have not...

Developer Policy Platforms

July 31, 2018