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Final Reminder: Instagram Legacy API Platform will be disabled on March 31, 2020

As we previously shared, we’d like to remind you that the final Instagram Legacy API permission ("Basic Permission") will be disabled on March 31, 2020. Any apps that remain on the Legacy API as of March 31 will no longer have access. As of March 31, developers previously using the Legacy API should instead rely on Instagram Basic Display API and ...

Platforms 2020

March 10 2020

A Reminder to our Community: New Messenger platform policy changes take effect today to help drive more valuable conversations between people and businesses

We want to remind our developer and business community that the Messenger platform policy changes will go into effect today to help ensure that conversations between people and businesses are as valuable for both parties as possible. We announced these changes on August 29, 2019 and extended the effective date on December 20, 2019. How can...

Platforms 2020

March 04 2020

Changes to F8 2020

Every year, we look forward to connecting with our global developer community at F8 and sharing our vision for the future that we’re building together. But given the growing concerns around COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person component of F8 2020. This was a tough call to make -- F8 is an incredibly important event...

F8 2020

February 27 2020

Best Practices for Designing Great Messaging Experiences on Messenger

We recently reminded our community of the upcoming policy changes to the Messenger platform that will go into effect on March 4, 2020. These policy changes were designed to improve the messaging experience between people and businesses by driving timely and personally relevant conversations — prioritizing conversations started by people and...

Platforms 2020

February 27 2020

Messenger Launches One-Time Notification API to Enable Businesses to Send Important Follow-up Messages

Today, we are introducing the One-Time Notification API (Beta) - a new API that allows businesses to send important follow-ups in Messenger. In December, we announced our plans to introduce this API to support valuable use cases like price drop alerts, back in stock alerts, and other important follow-ups that people have requested notifications...

Platforms 2020

February 04 2020

Deadlines approaching for Special Ad Category

Today, we’re releasing Marketing API v6.0 and Graph API v6.0, and as part of this release, we want to remind developers on upcoming deadlines for Special Ad Categories.We’re also introducing a new feature to read Page data and announcing API deprecations. ...

Business Tools Platforms

February 03 2020

Instagram Basic Display API: Long-Lived Access Tokens now available

February 20, 2020 Update: To provide you with more time to make changes, we will now be shutting down the Instagram Legacy API Platform on March 31, 2020 instead of March 2, 2020 as originally communicated.We’re always looking for ways to improve the developer experience with the Instagram Graph API. To that end, we’re excited to announce that...

Business Tools Platforms

January 14 2020

New Facebook Login Feature With Added Controls

Facebook is excited to announce the launch of a new Facebook Login feature, aimed at delivering users even more control over their information.The feature, called “Login Notifications,” alerts a user (via the Facebook app and user’s associated email) when they use Facebook Login to interact with 3rd party apps. The design and content of the Login...

Business Tools 2020

January 14 2020

Marketing API Advertisers Must Comply with Special Ad Category by March 31

Discrimination has no place on Facebook, and our advertising policies have long prohibited unlawful discrimination. As a result of historic settlement agreements with leading civil rights organizations, we introduced a new process last year for how advertisers based in the U.S., or targeting audiences in the U.S., can create ads that offer housing,...