App Review

Facebook review your app to ensure a high-quality Facebook experience across apps.

Many apps will need to be reviewed by Facebook before they can access certain features of Facebook’s platform products. Please see the list below to see if your app will need review.

Additionally, some types of apps and businesses will require that you agree to supplemental terms in addition to our platform policy and that Facebook verify your business.

Apps that Do Not Require Review

Your app does not require review if it only uses:

Social plugins
Facebook’s mediated sharing products, like the web sharing dialog or the iOS or Android share sheets
Facebook Login, where the only data being accessed is email, name, and profile photo

Apps that Require App Review

Your app requires review if it uses the following functionality:

Facebook Login and also asks for a person’s birthday, location, hometown, gender, age range, or link to profile
Webhooks are run through permissions check per app, for each Graph API request. This means your App requires review to receive webhooks as well, for all fields behind App Review.
To test a new feature or permission, after your app has been reviewed and published, use the ‘Create Test App’ feature in the App Dashboard to create a clone of your production app. The clone app, created with ‘In Development’ status will allow all roles access to all features and permissions.

In addition, you will need to agree to the new Onboarding Terms when you submit App Review.

If you are a business building tools for other businesses, you will need to agree to supplemental terms and a Technology Provider amendment.

Apps that Require App Review, Business Verification, and Supplemental Terms

If your app uses any of the following functionality, your app will be reviewed by Facebook. You will need to agree to supplemental terms beyond our platform policies. You will also be required to provide information about your business, and Facebook will verify that business.

Facebook Login and also asks for friends, photos, tagged places, videos, events, managed groups, posts, or mobile phone
Pages API (You need to request manage_pages permissions to enable most Marketing API scenarios)
Events API
Messenger Platform API
Instagram Graph API
Groups API
Business Manager API

If you are a business building tools for other businesses, you will need to agree to supplemental terms and a Technology Provider amendment. If you want to use one of the following features, each feature needs to be reviewed by the Facebook App Review team:

Page Mentioning
Like Button for apps on iOS and Android
Ads Management Basic Access
Ads Insights API Basic Access
All Mutual Friends API
Optimized Sharing to Messenger
Live Video API
Profile Expression Kit
Groups
Page Public Content Access

Businesses Building Tools for Other Businesses

If you are using Facebook’s tools or data to provide service to other businesses, in addition to the requirements mentioned above, we will require you to share with Facebook who your customers are. We will announce the solution by Aug 1st, 2018. If they access large scale user data through your tool, we may have additional requirements for your customers.

Review Process

If your app requires review, you will need to provide instructions on how to test your app. To start that process please visit the App Review tab in app’s dashboard.