expo-facebook not sending app events to facebook

Summary

I am currently using the latest expo SDK 42 and expo-facebook “~11.3.1”. When i try to log App events in Facebook there seems to be no events coming from the iOS devices at all but events from Android devices are showing as expected.

This issue includes the Auto events and standard events. On further inspection, the Facebook developer console shows that the facebookSDK being used is too old and needs to be upgraded. I’m not sure if this is the cause of the issue. I’ve attached an image to show what Facebook is displaying in their developer console.

Managed or bare workflow? If you have ios/ or android/ directories in your project, the answer is bare!

managed

What platform(s) does this occur on?

iOS

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

42

Environment

Expo CLI 4.8.1 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 11.2.1
      Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 14.17.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.5 - ~/.yarn/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.14.13 - /usr/local/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 14.5, DriverKit 20.4, macOS 11.3, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4
      Android SDK:
        API Levels: 30
        Build Tools: 30.0.3
        System Images: android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-S | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 4.1 AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283
      Xcode: 12.5.1/12E507 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      expo: ^42.0.0 => 42.0.3 
      react: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
      react-dom: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
      react-native: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-42.0.0.tar.gz => 0.63.2 
      react-native-web: ~0.13.12 => 0.13.18 
      react-navigation: ^4.4.3 => 4.4.4 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      expo-cli: 4.8.1
    Expo Workflow: managed

Reproducible demo or steps to reproduce from a blank project

const initFacebook = async () => {
      await Facebook.initializeAsync({
        appId: facebookAppId,
      })
      try {
      const { status } = await requestTrackingPermissionsAsync();

      if (status == 'granted') {
        console.log('Tracking enabled');

          await Facebook.setAutoLogAppEventsEnabledAsync(true);
          await Facebook.setAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabledAsync(true);

        }else{
          console.log("Tracking disabled")
          await Facebook.setAutoLogAppEventsEnabledAsync(false);
         await Facebook.setAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabledAsync(false);
        }
      }catch (err) {
        throw err
      }
    }

[omarst9]

After getting the app published on the App Store i started seeing events coming through from iOS devices. It most likely was because of the missing setAdvertiserTrackingEnabledAsync.

[cruzach]

No- I tested this using our test app which can be found here: https://github.com/expo/expo/tree/master/apps/native-component-list

facebook app events-specific screen can be found here: https://github.com/expo/expo/blob/master/apps/native-component-list/src/screens/FacebookAppEventsScreen.tsx