DownDetector.com, and initial investigations point to Facebook’s software developing kit (SDK) as the probable cause. Many of the broken apps rely on SDK to manage user logins, The Verge reports.Facebook has acknowledged the glitch and is working on the problem.“We are aware and investigating an increase in errors on the iOS SDK which is causing some apps to crash,” the social media giant wrote at 7 a.m.
Friday in a post to its developer platform.All iOS users, and not just those who use Facebook to log-in to certain apps, appear to be impacted.
Android users are not reporting being affected by the issue.This isn’t the first time Facebook’s software has temporarily disabled large swaths of popular apps: On May 6th, virtually the same.
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