How iOS 11 Is Impacting Apps That Are Tied to Facebook

Facebook alerted developers about the effects of new tracking limits in iOS 11

Facebook alerted developers about the effects of new tracking limits in the iOS 11 operating system Apple released last month.

iOS 11 included a new Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature for Apple’s Safari browser that limits the use of third-party cookies to 24 hours and deletes cookies entirely for sites that are not visited within a 30-day period.

Facebook engineer Shashank Gupta used a blog post to outline the effects for developers that use the social network’s social plugins, analytics and Facebook Login:

  • Social plugins: Gupta said social plugins will function normally for Safari users who have interacted with facebook.com
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