Firebase

Developers report that a Firebase SDK issue has been causing iOS apps to crash since this morning, with affected apps reportedly failing on launch. The problem appears widespread, and engineers are sharing workarounds and status updates while waiting for a fix from Google. Teams relying on Firebase for analytics and core functionality are assessing the impact on their users.

A software bug in Google Analytics for Firebase caused numerous iPhone apps to crash for several hours. Developers, who rely on the widely used analytics SDK, were forced to push fixes or wait out the disruption. Google has since resolved the problem, and normal app behaviour has been restored, though the outage sparked fresh debate about dependence on third-party tracking components in core app code.