Private app to use facebook marketing api

Question

I want to use the marketing api to pull ad data from facebook, and according to the docs I need to create an app in order to have the access token to do so. So far so good.

Here's my problem:

I need to take the app out of development mode in order to manage more than 5 ads accounts. But when I try to do so, I get a warning saying "Are you sure you want to make your app public? It will become available to everyone." I don't want the app to be publicly discoverable or accessible! Any way to make the app "live" keep the it private? I'm not even sure how it would be discoverable since I didn't create any pages for it.

Answer 1

If you want to manage more than 5 accounts then you will need an upgrade from the Development Level to Basic Level of the Marketing API access level.

I need to take the app out of development mode in order to manage more than 5 ads accounts.

Why do you think you need to do this?