Facebook is continually asking me to Sign in when I click on online games, why?

IdrisSeabright wrote:

What happens when you click "Continue"?

I know that some games save your progress though Facebook. However, as I don't use Facebook, I can't tell you exactly how it works. This is something you will most likely need to resolve between the app developers and FB. I'd start with the app developers.

Nightmare has happened since writing this. There’s definitely something wrong somewhere, whether it’s with Apple iOS, Facebook or more importantly my Sims Freeplay game that I’ve been playing for years.

I downloaded the new Sims game update, which was released (my issues were happening prior to the update), and there was some error in the game where my characters had got stuck! And I couldn’t unstick them, no matter what… I knew the errors weren’t in the previous save. So I decided to take Sims Freeplay completely off of my iPad, but not before putting it on a Samsung tablet I have, where I tested if the save was okay. I have terribly slow internet, unfortunately, so this took ages to put the game on the Samsung. And then a while to download my saved game. But I did manage to put it on. I didn’t save it to Android… But in that short space of time, it auto saved! It auto saved my game, which isn’t totally a problem, but it auto saved! Which means that Facebook is freely able to communicate and auto save with the version of the game on the Samsung tablet! There’s no asking me to log in to the Facebook app! (Auto save isn’t working since the other day when this all happened on my iPad).

But now I can’t get the game to go back on my iPad Mini 4! I don’t want to have to play the game on the Samsung for the rest of my life, I usually play it on the iPad Mini 4! I downloaded the base game again. But now I can’t get my save back on. I can’t get it to download completely on to the iPad. It’s a download of 531mb. And it’s getting stuck around the 502mb region…..

So it has turned into an absolute nightmare now, and there’s some major disconnect going on. Whether it’s with Apple iPad mini 4, or iOS 15.7/15.8, Facebook and/or The Sims Freeplay….

It had a little box pop up, that said “Allow Facebook to track”, I think, and I clicked yes of course, but it’s still not really working. It’s so hard to contact Facebook. I actually tagged Facebook, and Sims Freeplay and June’s Journey in a comment about it on Twex (Twitter/X, lol). Maybe I could leave a review in the App Store for Facebook, it can’t just be happening to me, but maybe?!

It only started happening in the last few days, it didn’t really do this before this week, or the week before, I don’t know what’s happened, even before updated to 15.8. I put 15.8 on in the hopes it might fix the issue, I’ve even changed the settings on the iPad to allow the tracking, not just via the FB app.

I just don’t know if it’s something I’ve done, or the FB app?!

IdrisSeabright wrote:

This is a SIMs and Facebook problem. Apple is not responsible for either the SIMs app or Facebook's service. Unfortunately, Facebook is unlikely to respond to you. Try the developers of the SIMs app.

Actually. I have since discovered it’s an Apple and iPad problem. As I have an Android tab too. And I’ve had to download The Sims Freeplay on to there, whilst this is going on, and I’ve discovered there’s no issue, with communication, between Facebook and The Sims game, on this Android tab, so what’s your answer to that? It’s auto-saving. It’s not asking me to log on. SO IT IS CLEARLY AN APPLE OR IPAD ISSUE!

Take note anyone who reads this forum and is having the same issue.

Like I hope this hasn’t got something to do with the whole GDPR thing too….. 🙄