{"id":350997,"date":"2020-05-07T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=350997"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:18:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:18:50","slug":"facebook-bug-crashed-major-iphone-apps-including-tiktok-and-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/350997-facebook-bug-crashed-major-iphone-apps-including-tiktok-and-spotify.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bug crashed major iPhone apps including TikTok and Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An issue involving Facebook&#8217;s iOS software developer kit (SDK) resulted in various other apps on users&#8217; devices crashing, according to reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/facebook\/facebook-ios-sdk\/issues\/1374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GitHub<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Developers on GitHub reported that their apps were crashing, and determined that it was due to the Facebook SDK &#8211; which is commonly used in apps to allow users to authenticate themselves via Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many apps (Spotify, Viber, etc) are crashing right now&#8230; Seems to be a Facebook SDK related issue,&#8221; said one user.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m also seeing a large spike in crashes in the past two hours with the same stack trace. FBSDKCoreKit 6.0.0, Xcode 11.3.1,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n<p>According to one <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aburninghilll\/status\/1258169688959352832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1258169688959352832&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Ffacebook-fixes-bug-that-crashed-major-ios-apps-like-tiktok-spotify-and-tinder%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Twitter user<\/strong><\/a>, popular apps that were broken by this issue include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spotify<\/li>\n<li>TikTok<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<li>Doordash<\/li>\n<li>Tinder<\/li>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>Soundcloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook fixed the issue over three hours later, meaning these apps should be working again.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">What happened<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, a new release of Facebook included a change that triggered crashes for some users in some apps using the Facebook iOS SDK,\u201d a Facebook spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/6\/21250023\/facebook-sdk-login-spotify-tinder-tiktok-ios-iphone-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identified the issue quickly and resolved it. We apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to affected developers, Facebook&#8217;s SDK for iOS would make a call to Facebook&#8217;s servers whenever an app that uses its SDK was launched.<\/p>\n<p>The SDK expects a reply from Facebook&#8217;s servers that is in a particular format, but Facebook&#8217;s server was not providing this.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source that spoke to The Verge, this was happening because Facebook had disabled a server configuration update that triggered its SDK.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this issue, the SDK would crash upon the launch of an app that used it, which meant that the app would also crash.<\/p>\n<p>Users did not need to be using Facebook to log into the apps in order for their apps to crash; even those who use other means of authentication were affected by the downtime.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/350811-why-zoom-will-be-safer-to-use-from-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Zoom will be safer to use from this week<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Facebook&#8217;s iOS software developer kit (SDK) resulted in various other apps crashing, according to reports on GitHub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,7927,59100],"class_list":["post-350997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-spotify","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351007,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350997\/revisions\/351007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}