Updated: Facebook for iPhone down - crashing repeatedly
Facebook for iPhone seems to be experiencing some -- hopefully temporary -- problems as we're getting flooded with users saying it's crashing for them on launch, repeatedly.
So take some solace in knowing it's not you or your iPhone, it's Facebook. Feel free to sound off in the comments until they get it fixed...
Update 1: As mentioned below, remember Facebook is a website and you can still go to http://www.facebook.com on your iPhone while you're for the app to come back online.
Update 2: Seems to be working again, let us know if you still have any problems or notice any other glitches.
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mine is down crashes when i just open it.
Yes Facebook is down this freaking sucks.
I'm having the same problem thought it was my iPhone 4. Thank god, it was Facebook
Echofon for Facebook does the same thing. Hopefully Facebook are on the case.
upgrading servers?
mayb i was just on it and boom crashed tried opening it again and just crashed.
Noticed since last update it doesnt push new posts/replies or check when you open it for new news feeds I also noticed if you close it down in multitasking it will check next time its opened...... surely they will find a way to fix this...its crazy to expect people to go in and kill it after everytime they open it in order to not have to manually hit the "load new posts" button
Hold the phone differently
-Steve Jobs
Yeah, mine down too. I didn't know how addicted I was until now.
Good.
Unacceptable, Facebook. Fix tonight.
just stop holding it with your left hand lol
For all of you freaking out, remember that there is a web app which is just as good as the actual app. That's what I'm using uniltil Facebook fixes the bugs, and it's working better than the app.
Was experiencing the same thing tonight. I uninstalled the app and then reinstalled, and it works fine now. Not sure if it was just a coincidence, but it works ok for me now. Hope this helps!
Seesmic for iOS4 is also affected by this... it's got to be an API error, given the number of apps affected, and it may related to the fact that Facebook has been having problems for hours with the news feed updating properly on the website.
Maybe they are gonna introduce an ipad version right now
Tis back up now.. Or, it is for me
Microsoft is integrating outlook with facebook. Crash n Burn i guess lol
Good to know it's facebook not the phone. There better be an update within the next few days.
Twitter @n2quared
Stuck at ATL for 3 hours with no Facebook... Bummer
Oh good. It's not just me. This is the first problem I've ever had since Facebook for iPhone first arrived so I'm not too annoyed.
facebook site was causing IE to crash for me as well
Yup mine keeps crashing too...
Mine is constantly crashing too! WHY come on guys let's get it fixed before fb addicts go crazy
Omg when is this gonna be fixed! Had no idea tipb were up at this time lol it's a kinda cool!
Crashing also. I heard that there is (was) security problem and this is for our own good.
Gone again .. Oh well - I shouldn't check it so often anyway..
Yep, Facebook app is down as well. Thought it was my phone but Im glad it isnt!! Did not realize how addicted my friends and I were until we couldn't get on it!! LOL well hope everyone has a great night!!!
I dont use the app, touch.facebook.com works for me.
Mine keeps on crashing 2! I thought it was just my iPhone 4! Phew
Yup miness down as well. I'm pretty sure that the Blackberry app was having issues like this a couple weeks ago. FB might be the worst app on the iPhone. Push is way hit and miss and has never really worked right.
Mine is not working at all right now. It hasn't worked correctly in months though. I can't post on other's walls or update status.
Thanks! Just spent 10 mins fiddling with apps and facebook settings. Glad its not my phone. I'm sad to learn how crazy this made me.
I would be NICE if they would post SOMETHING on the Facebook page... Just a suggestion...
Serves me right for not checking here first. Kept uninstalling & reinstalling, then just gave up. Glad to see it's not just my phone, looking forward to a fix.
Thanks for letting me know what is up. I hope that it is fixed soon.
Me too...thought maybe it was just my phone, thanks for the post.
This problem goes past just the Facebook app, I tried adding a Facebook column to the iPhone Tweetdeck app. And it causes the app to crash as well....
Also in iPod and iPad facebook crashes
thats strange that it causes that to crash by you can access it through safari fine...and why not a message that says "facebook is unavailable at this time" or something along those lines.. so people like us dont go nuts uninstalling and reinstalling or thinking something is wrong with their phone
Fix the last line of the article.
My Mrs. is pissed the app is not working. I told her to use Safari. To her it's just not the same...
Oh thank christ. I was panicked that it was my phone. Fix it, Facebook!
Same issues here; reinstalling does no good. I've also noticed in the past few days issues on the website when logging in from Safari on my MBP. My news feed doesn't always show the latest updates from friends and "liked" pages. It won't even show stuff I've just posted, though those will show up on my profile page. Looks like FB's got some work to do!
It was doing this earlier, then it worked, now it's broken again. Hopefully they're working on it.
Their dev team really needs to jump on it though. They've been kinda slow on updating these past few times and a few new features and UI tweaks would be nice.
Worked all day just fine... Then about 2 or 3 hrs ago it starts crashing!! This sucks because I'm addicted to facebook!! Lol jk
mine keeps crashing.facebook also needs to get there act together if they were a paid app id request a refund!
Mine has been for around two hours, over and over again crashing down. I restarted my phone for around three times and nothing happened. I hope they put their hands on it rapidly.
mine is working now
Thanks for reporting this, I deleted the app and redownloaded it trying to fix it. Now I can just relax - life is short.
Just got in. Looks like its working again.
Yep, the Facebook app is crashing all over. Just login to the website, the old fashioned way until they get things sorted out.
The problem is not the app, the problem is on the back end... Something the people at Facebook need to fix because Facebook will cause Tweetdeck to crash if you have it open as a column.
Yes, it's currently keep closing when I open the app .
iPhone 4 running 4.0.1. I have the firmware early.
@chris m really? and what area do u live?
Just started crashing for me about an hour ago. I cant fix it, and I am extremely computer literate. For the hell of it, I'll add that I'm certified too. That means that this extremely frustrating as I have to resort to leaving comments instead of fixing it as I do with all other computer related problems. I am this close to destroying something. Facebook is my most used app and I hate the mobile app. FIX THIS FACEBOOK. NOW.
looks like it's fixed.
Yeah I went on Facebook and Quit on me like 4 times.
Well...i have the iphone 4 and upon selecting facebook app, it begins to load and then just goes back to my main page...frustrated at the moment. Its 9:46pm in Colorado, and im jealous that 11:41pm guy got it working, so if he is on the east coast it must be working its way out west, Fingers crossed, all i can say is WTF facebook
If it's facebook, it's not affecting other cell phones (as in the Palm Pre and Pixi) or anything else. So I think we can assume it's apple or the iphone. Sorry, iphone proves again it's not that great
It's working again for me, although it still crashes Tweetdeck...
I am having problems with Boxcar as well...
mine def just started running again.. seems to be all good
haha all good until you hit load new posts.. then crashy crashy
Ipad started doing the same thing a couple of hours ago... = (
It's 23:55 EST, and all is well with the Facebook world. It's working now...
It just started working again but buggy
Actually, both fixed now...
San Francisco - Mine is back up. Not sure if it's perfect... but it's not crashing upon launch!
Well mine is working again...i honestly cant think of what happend. Well the only way i can think it only crashed on Iphones is because its an app, blackberrys and other phones just get on there internet, so ofcourse it will work for them. It may be just a malfunction on facebooks app in itself. its small software we download to our mini computers, so malfunctions are bound to happen, with any phone, not just the iphone.
I was able to fix the problem be deleting the app on my iPhone, then removing "Facebook for iPhone" on my Facebook account, and then reinstalling the iPhone app again.
It works fine on everything except the news feed WHICH IS GODDAMN IMPORTANT! I also noticed in the pastdays that when i post or comment on anything the app crashes.
@bill pretty sure it fixed it self.. cause i didnt do anything
@chanell on blackberrys it IS an app.. my sisters got a blackberry and shes sitting next to me.. no problems for her tho
My bad... Works now
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I'm on wifi and haven't had any issues whatsoever. Try that....
Yea mines won't display my recent messages =\ FB better fix this asap!
on a side note.. has anyone been having problems with push notifications from the facebook app? like all day?
The fb website has a link for their 'mobile' version which seems to formatted for the iPhone / smartphones... and it is functioning fine.
Both my iphone 4 and my wife's 3g, running lastest iOS, were out for about 2 or 3 hours. But as of 12am July 14, it's loading up and fully accessible. at least here in BK NY
@elementbt, i have been having problems with push. But at the same time that the FB app was out over the last two hours or so, i was having activesync problems with my work and gmail accounts. all seems good now
Mine is back up here in CT but yea my push notifications are sporadic. 1 out of maybe 5 will actually notify me...let's hope for an os update soon. Not just fb
Glad to know that I wasn't the only one experiencing it. The app seems to be working fine now, but it was down (crashing at startup) for a couple of hours.
FB app sucks / sucked always. Push is slow, can't publish certain things. They haven't even updated for OS 4 or iPad? They are not worried about our little iPhone issues
It's up n running now
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hell yeah NL!! thats cause my man Charlie was coaching!!! Go Phillies!
I think it's late to post this, but when I notice it was crashing I just changed to see only status updates and that worked. Is someone is still having problems try that.
FB app is always sketchy. There is a lot of times I can't upload my pics. In was crashing on me tonight like mention above.
Sign out then in again. Took me a few attempts but it seems to have fixed the problem !!!!
Every since the good code monkey left, that app has been garbage. I'm thinking of replacing with bookmark icon instead. Less hassle. Crappy app.
It works again I had this issue last night around 6pm I tried again around 12am and it was working fine.
The app has always been a half working piece of garbage for me. It functions well enough to view the news feed, take 1+ minute to freeze the app while posting anything, and click 'like'...that's about it.
was crashing for me last night, working great this a.m. thanks!
Too bad I didn't read this post last night. My wife was experiencing these issues on her 3GS. I teased her that it was because she was running iOS 3.1 rather than 4 (I was kidding of course). After her Facebook app immediately crashed, I pulled it up on my 3GS running iOS 4 and it worked without any issues. I guess I had good timing because when she pulled it up a little later, it was working again.
That was very annoying....glad to know that it was a facebook problem....so what exactly happened to make it crash on startup like that.
I have the latest OS available(4.0.1), and it is almost like the Facebook app (3.1.4) is nearly incompatible with the new OS. The app crashes, lags, I can sparsely update my status without it giving me "Error could not update your status at this time". I can't load any pictures, and it's kicked me off(logged me off) a few times too. I am glad to know it's not my phone, though.
The problems ARE DEFINITELY NOT FIXED. I'm in San Francisco running 3.1.2 on a 16 gig 3GS. iTunes wont download 3.1.4 for me I guess because I don't yet use a 4G. I STILL have any one or more of the following problems DAILY EVEN WITH OR WITHOUT SOLID WIFI CONNECT: 1.) Freezes so that I can't scroll down or press any buttons like post or even navigate in any way, so I have to hit home key and then re-run app - repeatedly. 2.) no content behind notifications, getting "error" or there is simply no content. 3.) No notifications, but I can see there are obviously new ones because I'm synched to get an email for each notification. 4.) says "error" posting my comment, the when I try again I find that the comment has been posted multiple times even though the error message made it seem as if it wasn't posting. 5.) when I view my friends pages from my list of friends, no recent updates since the last time I viewed their page from friends list. 6.) completely kicks me off ----SUPER FRUSTRATING. I've re-synched to computer, uninstalled and re-installed. Took a poll of FB friends all having similar issues as of today. No avail.
....(Correction: I'm running 3.1.3 not 3.1.2 as stated in my post above)....
It's crashing again
I am using 2G