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Firebase is a backend and data analysis tool provided by Google and is used by many iOS and Android apps, so its service abnormalities will affect a large number of apps.
Many iPhone users have been complaining on Threads since yesterday (29th) that the app will crash whenever they open it. The situation they encounter always crashes at least once before they can be opened normally. They originally thought this was a bug in the iOS 27.0.1 update, but the culprit is actually Google.
Google confirmed that an exception occurred in its Analytics for Firebase. This anomaly once caused thousands of iPhone apps to crash upon startup. The problem has now been fixed and users do not need to update the app separately.
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This time the problem occurs with Google Firebase SDK. Firebase is a back-end and data analysis tool used by many app developers. Not only Android, but also a large number of apps are imported into iOS. Therefore, when an abnormality occurs on the Google side, the impact will expand instantly.
This incident was caused by the Firebase SDK receiving an "incorrectly formatted payload", causing the App to crash directly upon startup. Also because the problem was on Google's side, App developers had almost no way to fix it themselves and could only wait for official processing.
How exaggerated is the impact? Some developers reported that their apps have accumulated tens of thousands of crash records in a short period of time, and there are even higher cases. There are also developers who initially thought that their programs were broken and rushed to use AI tools to help debug the problem, consuming a large amount of AI Tokens in vain. In the end, they discovered that the real problem was not with them at all.
Google also released a timeline of the incident. The problem first started at 5:41 pm on September 28, US time, which is 8:41 am on September 29 in Taiwan time. Google later completed the repair deployment at 7:52 pm US time, which is around 10:52 am in Taiwan time, about 2 hours before and after. However, due to the cache mechanism, some apps may continue to crash for up to 4 hours after the repair deployment is completed.
This means that the currently affected apps have theoretically returned to normal, and this time there is no need for developers to update the Firebase SDK, and users do not need to specifically update the app.
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