Why is the Spotify app closing on my iPhone?
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Having problems with Spotify on your iPhone? Does the app close and you can no longer open it? Don't worry, it's not a problem with the device and it's not with your internet connection either.
The problem is much more complicated, and it has to do with Facebook. We explain the details below.
This is why Spotify and other apps don't work
The Spotify application is not the only one that brings iOS users to the head. Pinterest, Tinder and other popular ones also have problems to work, as can be seen in Downdetector, which is fed by real-time reports from users.
And there is no point in restarting your mobile, changing the settings or uninstalling the app from your iPhone or IPad. What is the problem? It's related to the Facebook SDK, and it's not the first time it's happened.
This does not mean that the problem is with users who log in with Facebook, or anything like that. The problem has to do with a developer-level process that apps use to integrate with Facebook. This dynamic brings a number of benefits to developers, but with a serious drawback.
When there are problems with this Facebook SDK, most of the related applications are automatically blocked, because when the user opens the app, Facebook cannot perform the process of authenticating the login.
The Facebook team acknowledged that there were bugs in the iOS SDK that affected user-reported apps, but they haven't updated the information since the initial report, and there's nothing users can do. developers or users about it.
So in the case of Spotify there are only two solutions. Use it offline, which requires you to be a premium user and have downloaded part of your music library, or wait for Facebook to fix the issue to get everything back to normal.