I've followed this guide to update my application to use Facebook SDK 4.6 for iOS 9 SDK.
When I tap the login button now, a Safari view controller gets presented, whereas it should redirect to the Facebook app(App is installed on iPhone).
Is any additional handling required ? It was working fine on previous versions(v4.3.0).
From a product manager at Facebook in the "Facebook Developer Community" group.
And my Reply, still waiting for a response:
So it sounds like with SDK 4.6 they are forcing every login to use the Safari View Controller.
EDIT ----
And their response:
From FacebookSDK version 4.6 and above, they are forcing every login to use the Safari View Controller on iOS 9.
There are 2 way to fix this:
- Use the lower version of SDK
- Enable native app login again by using this code https://github.com/tuantmdev/MTNativeFacebookLogin
Hope this help!
We’ve seen hard numbers about this exact issue. On October 8 we released the first version of the app with FBSDK 4.6 In the same update we made our login flow more prominent in the UI, so we saw a significant uptick on email signups. However, our Facebook logins went down at the same time. This effect did not occur for iOS 8 users (email and facebook logins went up together). Here is a graph. Red is email signups, blue is facebook for iOS 9 users only.
Facebook vs Email signups chart
tl;dr The latest update to the Facebook SDK killed our facebook conversion rates!
@ CanAksoy Is Facebook seeing the same effect internally? I agree that our interests are aligned here, what trend has moving everyone to Safari had on your conversion rates globally?
for opening the Facebook app -
Open your plist as source code ,
And add the following code -
<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>fbapi</string>
<string>fb-messenger-api</string>
<string>fbauth2</string>
<string>fbshareextension</string>
</array>
It is working for me in iOS 9
I also did recieve FB login with Safari. But after setting up all config-s for iOS 9 (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ios9), login worked with FB app again (I'm using 4.4. SDK). Anybody else with this experience?