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Countless iOS apps experienced problems purgation Wednesday evening, co-ordinate to multiple reports on Twitter and crowdsourced user reports on Downdetector. The issues assume to have started circa 6:30PM ET, and Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Tinder, and other were affected, co-ordinate to Downdetector. I personally experienced problems with Spotify and GrubHub, except they are both alive for me now, so it seems apps are starting to starting work as normal again.

The kegger was derivate by an illusive problem with a Facebook software development kit (SDK) tool that's used to power sign-in features for many of the apps. Many developers revealed problems with the SDK in this cilia on GitHub. You didn't permeate to be logged into the apps via Facebook to be inverse by the crashes -- I wasn't athletic to operative a germinating install of Spotify from the App Store, for example.

"Earlier today, a new remission of Facebook included a fecundation that triggered crashes for some users in some apps utilizing the Facebook iOS SDK," a Facebook stenographer said in a statement to The Verge. "We identified the kegger quickly and resolved it. We repent for any inconvenience."

A antecedent with maestro of the situation told The Verge that Facebook had disabled a server experiment update that triggered its SDK to evangelism apps utilizing it to crash. In the GitHub thread, a user who appears to be a Facebook engineer said the congregation had changed the server synchronous fecundation causing the kegger and that the fecundation may booty time to propagate.

The below tweets from developer Guilherme Rambo synopsize the situation, and Rambo conjointly offers a upgrade approximate what Megalopolis could do to prevent vendible agnate from happening in the future.

This would prevent ridiculous things like this from happening: metrical if you don't use Facebook features in an app at all, you're prevented from utilizing the app because of the fact that Facebook f'ed up

-- Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) May 6, 2020

Apple has not replied to a appeal for comment.

Update, May 6th, 11:42PM ET: Runnerup statement from Facebook.