Several in style iOS apps together with Spotify, TikTok, GroupMe, Pinterest, and Tinder reportedly confronted crashing points because of an issue in a Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK) integration.

The crash had apparently affected a number of apps, as will be seen within the dialogue on this difficulty raised on Facebook iOS SDK’s GitHub web page. “Well, this definitely bought our whole group rattled and the boss foaming on the mouth. Crazy how the FBSDK monitoring the app launch may cause the whole lot to return crumbling down. Whomever QA’d this variation, I concern for his or her job.”, wrote a developer.

According to experiences, there was a change in the kind of knowledge that the Facebook SDK server offers when an app opens which was inflicting the crash. If experiences are to be believed, it seems to be like Facebook made an replace to its SDK servers to establish if an app was a health-app or not.

Facebook was fast to rectify the problem, and mentioned “Earlier today, a new release of Facebook included a change that triggered crashes for some users in some apps using the Facebook iOS SDK,” a Facebook spokesperson advised The Verge. “We identified the issue quickly and resolved it. We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Spotify acknowledged the problem and wrote “We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out! We’ll keep you posted.” In a follow-up tweet, the corporate mentioned “Good news! Everything is good to go and looking happy. Still having issues? Give @SpotifyCares a tweet.” after the problem bought mounted.

The difficulty was reportedly precipitated because of a server configuration replace. After experiences of the problem, the corporate reverted the adjustments which appear to have mounted the problem. “The change needs a some time to be propagated to all server. Some apps already seen the crash stopped. We also turned off the feature. It will be effective within a few minutes,”  mentioned the corporate.