Overview
- Thousands of iPhone and iPad apps began crashing on launch after Firebase’s iOS analytics SDK received an incorrectly formatted payload, according to Google.
- Google diagnosed the problem and rolled out a server-side fix the same evening, with the initial rollout completed by 7:52 p.m. Pacific and full deployment around midnight.
- Developers do not need to ship SDK or app updates because the error was fixed on Google’s servers, the company said.
- Some app instances continued to crash briefly because of caching and propagation, and those cases should have resolved within about four hours after the rollout.
- The incident highlights how widespread use of Firebase can cause simultaneous failures across many independent apps and left some developers reporting tens of thousands of crash reports.