App suddenly crashing on startup in production due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Checklist

• [ ] I've updated to the latest released version of the SDK
• [x] I've searched for existing GitHub issues
• [x] I've looked for existing answers on Stack Overflow, the Facebook Developer Community Forum and the Facebook Developers Group
• [x] I've read the Code of Conduct
• [x] This issue is not security related and can safely be disclosed publicly on GitHub

Environment

Describe your dev environment here, giving as many details as possible. If you have them, make sure to include:

Production. Facebook SDK 5.0.2.

Goals

What do you want to achieve?

My company's app to not crash in production.

Expected Results

What do you expect to happen?

My app to work properly in production.

Actual Results

What actually happened? Can you provide a stack trace?

The app crashes on open, because of Facebook's SDK, starting at 10:53PM PST. Seems to be happening for 100% of users. 1400 crashes in the last 16 minutes.

FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m - Line 108
+[FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager updateFilters:restrictiveParams:] + 108

Steps to Reproduce

What are the steps necessary to reproduce this issue?

Open our app, Pray.com.

[agam-mahajan-swiggy]

Happening for my App also. 'FBSDKCoreKit' , '5.1.1' for all the users.

[ethanhuang13]

Happening on my app. tvOS with FBSDKCoreKit v5.8.0. (However the iOS app with the same SDK version is not affected.)

[furthergo]

APP using FBSDKCoreKit v5.0.2 is crash, which using FBSDKCoreKit v5.4.1 is OK

[sekitaka]

APP using FBSDKCoreKit v5.0.2 is crash, which using FBSDKCoreKit v7.1.1 is OK

[PrLion]

Please fix this ASAP.

[agam-mahajan-swiggy]

Upgraded FBSDKCoreKit to 7.1.1. Working fine now For existing users, Had a kill switch to disable SDK

[PrLion]

Upgraded FBSDKCoreKit to 7.1.1. Working fine now For existing users, Had a kill switch to disable SDK

Did you solve it?

[agam-mahajan-swiggy]

I think the issue is with the older SDKs. I'm not exactly sure what is causing the issue. After updating to the latest SDK, it's not crashing

Before also a discussion happened on this crash. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374

[PrLion]

I think the issue is with the older SDKs. I'm not exactly sure what is causing the issue. After updating to the latest SDK, it's not crashing

Before also a discussion happened on this crash.

1374

Yep. But if app in store we can't solve it ourself. Only update.

[puneet1106]

For FBSDKCoreKit v5.0.2 facing this issue. Please fix this ASAP.

[agam-mahajan-swiggy]

@PrLion yeah. For my app on App Store, it worked because of the kill switch which is controlled remotely. I disabled SDK when got crash alert.

Now Either we have to wait for the FB team to reply and fix this or you can meanwhile upgrade to latest SDK (try 7.1.1) and request for expedite release to the Apple team.

Also, add some kill switch for this SDK so that this kind of situation doesn't come again.

[PrLion]

@PrLion yeah. For my app on App Store, it worked because of the kill switch which is controlled remotely.

Now Either we have to wait for the FB team to reply and fix this or you can meanwhile upgrade and request for expedite release to the Apple team.

thx. Can you tell how can I do this one too?

[Garima0812]

App is getting crashed since 11:45 in the morning due to the exception in FBSDK . Please resolve it as soon as possible .

[agam-mahajan-swiggy]

@PrLion After submitting app for review Go to this link https://developer.apple.com/contact/app-store/?topic=expedite and fill the necessary information. Mention the crash and the fix.

[PrLion]

@PrLion After submitting app for review Go to this link https://developer.apple.com/contact/app-store/?topic=expedite and fill the necessary information. Mention the crash and the fix.

Thank you)

[OneManMobile]

Is there a timeline for the rollout of a fix @joesus ?

[wangjunhua1]

The old version suddenly appeared a lot of crashes today [FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager updateFilters:restrictiveParams:]

[alainnguyen]

Same here on our iOS App on Live users, using FBSDK 5.1.1. Please, fix the regression ASAP.

[matt-aitken]

Same here. I believe this issue also happened on May 7!!

[rom4ikq]

Same here. Using FBSDK 5.0.2

[danbus]

The same problem, please fix it as soon as possible, affecting all users

[samh-depop]

We are using 5.2.3 and having the same crash. This is crashing the app for all our users in productions.

Can anyone help on this?

[JamesSawley]

Same problem on 5.11

[IainS1986]

Same issue with SDK 5.0.2 (Xamarin package Xamarin.Facebook.iOS 5.0.2 etc)

Upgrading to SDK 5.12.0 (Xamarin package(s) Xamarin.Facebook.iOS 5.12.0 etc) seemed to resolve the issue.

[PavloNovak]

Same 5.6.0

[th3hamm0r]

Just tested a minor upgrade from 5.0 to 5.15.0, it worked for a couple of app-starts, but then started crashing again (so the SDK seems to update itself in some ways). So you will probably need a higher version, but I cannot tell at the moment, if that fixes the issue...

Related: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#issuecomment-624936404

[kopfnick]

Multiple of our apps crashing for us, new releases are not an option. Spotify is also down...

[esam091]

All essential apps in my country crashes ☹️

[tecbot]

Second time this year, great

[guptameet]

FBKMKB

[guptameet]

FB is not responsible enough to have shipped code like this. Irresponsible!!

[Wisors]

FB, Have you consider adding Continuous Integration and Functional Tests questions to your Interview's questionnaire?

[Ravi61]

MoveFastBreakEverything

Do you even have a code review process?

[tewner]

We're seeing this issue too. This may be related to bug https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/249767556223451/ which was fixed back in May by a Facebook Platform rollback.

[wangjunhua1]

Now there are problems with the new version

[wangjunhua1]

Now there are problems with the new version

FBSDKCoreKit、FBSDKLoginKit、FBSDKShareKit 6.3.0

[tothvoj-gl]

Issue status here: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/1739188102911114/

[soaurabhtokopedia]

FB guys, any ETA around this fix, please...

[nghuiqin]

It's Happy Friday 🥇

[objectiveCarlo]

Anyone have eta? will they fix for all versions or just the newest version of their sdk?

[arthur-watcha]

@agam-mahajan-swiggy

How did you remotely control whether to use the SDK?

[lawgimenez]

Spotify, Booking.com and Pinterest crashing

[iphonic]

Happening all of a sudden crash in Development too..

-[NSNull count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10d05eea8

in FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager

+ (void)updateFilters:(nullable NSDictionary<NSString *, id> *)restrictiveParams
{
  if (restrictiveParams.count > 0) {

Line number 62

[simonlee2]

@PrLion yeah. For my app on App Store, it worked because of the kill switch which is controlled remotely. I disabled SDK when got crash alert.

Now Either we have to wait for the FB team to reply and fix this or you can meanwhile upgrade to latest SDK (try 7.1.1) and request for expedite release to the Apple team.

Also, add some kill switch for this SDK so that this kind of situation doesn't come again.

How did you disable the SDK?

[PrLion]

@PrLion

How did you remotely control whether to use the SDK?

I can't do it. "I'm not Steve Jobs)))". I'm confusion like you all) Just sent my application to update.

[TimNN]

While this doesn't help from the developer side of things, as a user I noticed that, for me, the Apps start in Airplane mode, although they crash as soon as Airplane mode is deactivated.

[apchrkey]

Thank you Facebook, for stopping everyone from using their phones.

[apchrkey]

Another reason to never put any Facebook code in your app?

[rhysforyou]

Yeah there's no way to implement a kill switch since the Facebook SDK swizzles methods to bootstrap itself when your app launches. If you include the Facebook SDK, you're trusting Facebook not to crash your app.

[AleshaOleg]

FB investigating - https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/329763701368293/