A number of popular apps and services, including TikTok, Spotify, Pinterest and Tinder, are currently down on iOS devices.
On social media, many reports say various apps crash every time they are launched on iPhones and iPads, and there are also spikes in outages for the same apps on DownDetector.com .
Although the exact cause of the problem has not yet been confirmed, early reports suggest the outages are caused by the Facebook SDK, which apps use to manage user logins. Facebook said this morning on its developer platform that it was “aware [des] and investigating an increase in errors on the iOS SDK that was causing some apps to crash”.
A similar problem involving the Facebook SDK occurred in May and affected dozens of apps.
