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The BBC iPlayer is a streaming television and radio service made available by the BBC. In addition to programming from the BBC, the platform also offers programs from broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by iPlayer users through our website.
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Buffering (31%)
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Sign in (27%)
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Playback Issues (25%)
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Crashing (16%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Reading |
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| Hackney |
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| Poplar |
Sign in | |
| Horncastle |
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| Leicester |
Crashing | |
| London |
Playback Issues |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Phil
(@Phlz) reported
@bt_uk How can the hub be the issue? NowTV, BBC iPlayer, YouTube and every other app that can provide live feed works fine.
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martin littler
(@Littlermartin) reported
@SkyHelpTeam lots of issues with BBC iPlayer on sky q recently. Lockups and the whirly icon then eventually starts again. All other content delivery apps on
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ace’s ace (spreading the kathange agenda)
(@sukistraken) reported
as a celebration of the bbc reaching 100 years old can they fix the bbc iplayer ‘live’ delay please.
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Sam Mizou
(@mizouzie) reported
@sarajoydev @BBCNews Oh the documentaries, radio and programming in general is 2nd to none, but I have always always always hated any website they have. BBC Sport is the worst and I still cannot use iPlayer to this day. Shambolic Ux.
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Tracey Davies
(@miss_traceydav) reported
@SkyHelpTeam are you having issues getting shows on demand? IPlayer had issues yesterday but now All4 and your own shows not up broadcast yesterday
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Crimmins
(@PropFreeLFC) reported
@RothmansYears Still the worst rock death I've lived through cause he had so much left to do whereas at least with Prince and Bowie etc we got years of brilliance from them There's a great show about all the times Nirvana played the UK on the iplayer if you haven't seen. Grohl talks about TOTP
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Leman Walters
(@LemanWalters) reported
I daren’t catch the BBC2 Wasteland doc as the description in the radio times made it sound bloody awful. But may have to have a peak on iPlayer in the slim chance I was wrong
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QuadroPlunder 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
(@jamandthat) reported
Since when could you watch BBCQT live?! (on iplayer) It's got to better than stopping up late and banging your head on the table and being nickered the next day at work.
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Gavin Pickup 💙💛
(@KTMGav) reported
@rykowski76 @MmaBinns91 @virginmedia Boils my head mate. Need wifi for the printer for work stuff at home. TV keeps dropping off every time I put something on YouTube or iPlayer etc. absolute **** service. Need something else now, fed up with it.
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Derek Morrison
(@desdons) reported
@sweenyness iPlayer doesn't work abroad
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Cynthia Williams
(@Cynthia12822595) reported
@CupOfEarlGreyT @AnnPhipps14 @David1969May It’s not just current bbc program’s I mainly watch old programs on the iPlayer couldn’t believe it when they issue a warning before about certain behaviour content ,latest being behaviour could be imitated !!😱
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NICK
(@NICKDEVIL) reported
@SkyHelpTeam There is an issue with all4 it's not showing the catch up n also iplayer has changed from yesterday's programs to download to the day before
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Jo Whitehead 💙 🕷
(@Jo_WhiteheadUK) reported
Please tell me if I'm going mad - trying to watch the BBC 1 news special but all I'm getting is Doctors... tried off & on a few times... same on IPlayer & live TV. Is it just me or is BBC not working to the new schedule?
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colin spratt
(@colinspratt1) reported
@admags @BBCSPORTNI @Glentoran It hadn't appeared on the iPlayer at kickoff so I flicked onto the bbc sport website and watched it here in Wellington mate if thats any help for next time. You were lucky to miss that performance.
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Paul H. Fischer
(@PaulH_Fischer) reported
One of the worst VPN operators has to be @NordVPN Beyond awful customer service it doesn’t work. At least here in Los Angeles where it just stops my Safari from loading. I uninstalled and reinstalled but no avail. Now I’m out over $80 truing to log into BBC’s iPlayer.. #NordVPN
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The Time Prophet
(@TheTimeProphet1) reported
@MirandaMoff The Ultra is good, but BBC iplayer won't work on it, as it is American. Although I don't watch the BBC and I can watch it on my tv if needed.
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Tim
(@timegellis) reported
@tvlicensing hi, I pay my tv license at home and sometimes will watch bbc iplayer through my fire stick. We do not have a tv license at my work. My question is can we watch via my fire stick on a work tv? Even when my work does not pay a tv license like how we can watch Netflix?
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Pat Foulstone
(@the_rooster1) reported
Currently on holiday in turkey and can’t get the #EnglandRL game on the iplayer! Does anyone know how I can watch it?? Any websites I can get a link?? Please send help!!! @CelticRlfc @leedsrhinos
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anthony vickers
(@untypicalboro) reported
@TheRealFbloke Repeats tonight. Last night's Storyville on the Andes plane crash cannibal survivors was something else. It may be on IPlayer.
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Si Forster
(@FiniteMonkey) reported
@Otto_English Yep - if you iPlayer yesterday’s edition (am at work now and don’t know how to grab vids anyway!), Bob Seely starts at about 28 mins in kind of the exact same vein as Garry in the Telegraph, invites viewers to the RT website at 29:20
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🖤GOON DRUID🖤
(@Gooner3057) reported
@mistressmona_ No. I lied to iplayer and I feel terrible about it.
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ẗäüẗöl̈ög̈ÿ
(@tautology0) reported
@sgtrafford Netflix isn't logged into the TV in the spare room or my office, so I'm stuck with Prime or iPlayer; maybe tomorrow when the missus is at work.
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Graeme Hall
(@_GraemeHall) reported
@KermodeMovie @JaneHillNews You couldn't make it up. Hopefully more will go to iPlayer to watch it and the figures will show what a terrible mistake the BBC has made.
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quinn 🕛
(@goldrushpaulsen) reported
@falsegodlayla13 10.40pm UK time on BBC One a VPN might work with bbc iplayer?
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wabisabi
(@wabisabilondon) reported
Fed up. Channel 4 not working on MacBook. And now not opening programs on iPad! Why is it so hard? None of these problems on using iPlayer! 2/2
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Kat Slater
(@QueenKat_MS) reported
@benmitchellgifs @Benny______Boy Are you thick May I ask? Because I think everyone knows during the Jon Sen era the show was at its worst + it was being shown on Iplayer every Monday so less people tuned in live. Since then Clenshaw has improved the show massively and the viewing figures have grown every week
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E-quipper - grateful for the 😷 you wear 💉 💉💉
(@annwitbrock) reported
@virginmedia It's always been very slow, but iPlayer was unusable on TV yesterday, as it never acknowledged selection of viewer. iPlayer unused since last series of Dr Who. Can media hubs for older TVs get updated with more efficient apps? Fortunately iPlayer works fine on the laptop.
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foo
(@slashdottir) reported
@atanessi Does BBC iPlayer work in the US?
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Kelly Pick'em 🇺🇦
(@KPickem) reported
@DavidDeutschOxf BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues. In the UK? Here's some advice.
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It's about time...
(@Midori_marmotte) reported
Speaking of #Films, the BBC has "Black Hollywood: They gotta have us" back on iPlayer (and it was on BBCTwo at the beginning of this month). Definitely worth watching to get the extent of the problem (No #Diversity, the idea that Black Movies is a "genre", ...) #BlackHistory