For many users, including yours truly, the Facebook iPhone app started inexplicably crashing yesterday upon startup.
Staff and users alike are trying to find the cause and solution for this issue, but the general consensus is that the application for some reason fails while loading the News Feed– the default front-page for most users. This can be temporarily avoided by very quickly clicking any other tab when the application loads, but even then there’s a good chance it will crash.
Also, attempts at uninstalling and re-installing the app have proven mostly useless for many, as has rebooting the iPhone or even restoring. This is not a local iPhone problem or a problem with the installed copy of the app; rather, it is something being caused during the process of loading, and rendering the data from Facebook’s servers.
In my own humble opinion, I would surmise the crashing issue may have a connection to the ever-changing site layout and themes. On my own Facebook account, I have been noticing random, and frequent inconsistencies on the site, including mixtures between old and new themes, as well as layouts. If the mobile apps somehow generate their own data from the site’s front-page, one could assume the crashing has a direct link to this problem.
All that has been said is that they are working on the problem, and users should sit tight — most likely the problem will be resolved very quickly. Until then, stick to using the website from a computer, or use your mobile browser — those two options seem to be relatively stable.
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Yes I am experiencing that same issue. My iPhone facebook app crashes and have tried to resolve it by doing everything listed above. Nothing has worked and at least the problem has already been reported.
Unless you’re using firefox, which had also had problems with facebook crashing the browser. Which is still an intermittent problem on my netbook (although not as bad as it was a few weeks ago) my only course of action was to download & install Google Chrome to get around it.