It is the second time in a matter of months that a bug in Facebook’s software developers kit (SDK) has caused other apps to crash.
The iPhone apps for Spotify, Tinder and Pinterest crashed for users around the world on Friday due to a Facebook bug.
The core issue was in Facebook’s software developer kit (SDK) for iOS which embeds Facebook functionality within other apps, for instance allowing people to log in to Tinder using their Facebook accounts.
Launching the apps in airplane mode with WiFi off appeared to let the apps boot without crashing, although as soon as airplane mode is turned off the apps would again crash.
The apps failed to launch because they were attempting to reach Facebook’s servers to record any logins, even if the user wasn’t logging in with their Facebook account.
