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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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Playback Issues (66%)
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Buffering (23%)
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Crashing (9%)
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Sign in (3%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Manchester |
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| Oldbury |
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| Glasgow |
Buffering | |
| Slough |
Playback Issues | |
| Feltham |
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| Gateshead |
Buffering |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Didymus Holmes
(@DidymusBrush) reported
@CameronYardeJnr @Stevevolkwriter Still.. you never know... it might just pop up on BBC iPlayer unexpectedly come October. Well, unless there's some kind of complicated rights issues preventing it!
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Cecilia Bartholemew
(@CeciliaBTory) reported
As I am stuck at home recovering from a broken right leg and hip sustained during our mountain walking holiday in #France the new sunday night dilemma is do we watch #Ridley or #TheCapture...we'll probably just watch The Capture on iplayer later...🙄😐
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Park Sung Rin
(@parksungrin89) reported
Did... BBC iplayer just crash on me? #savegentlemanjack #gentlemanjackstreamsunday
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Rebecca
(@UnLoved616) reported
Just got home from work, went on iplayer and there's no Eastenders up?! Have they stopped putting the whole week up?! I love my Monday night binge watching sessions 🥺🥺🥺
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Joanne Hopkins
(@joanne_hopkins) reported
@BBCiPlayer hi there, iplayer is suddenly giving the error message that we are not in the UK on the computer and won't play on our TV. We certainly are,nothing else has changed. Is this a glitch please or how do we fix it? IP address is registered to England.We have a TV licence.
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Andrew liszka
(@drewliszka1) reported
@GaryLineker @BBCMOTD @BBCOne Will it be on iplayer I'm at work tonight?
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Jackie P
(@jackiepatie) reported
@BertrandRustles Oh, I don't know. I'm watching on iplayer. Dylan got near the front for the Arctic Monkeys last night and he said the sound was awful, so you might be better off being further back. That's what he's doing tonight.
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Eamonn McGuinness
(@EMcG67) reported
@Flintaxe @BBCiPlayer Hello again. I seem to have fixed this issue. I didn't have a TV aerial connected to the back of the TV itself (I use a BT box.) Once I connected to the back of the TV, iplayer worked as it operates via the Freeview Play platform. Hope this works for you.
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Rahul/Rollie
(@Rollie187) reported
@NOWHelpTeam Just over 40mbps on WiFi, though tv is connected to ethernet. Only happens when streaming live through now app, not had any issue with live on iplayer or prime, & no issues with streaming non-live content from lots of other apps. Only phone & TV using network at time of issue.
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Paul Green.
(@PaulGreenTPB) reported
Rejoined @netflix last week. Fed up with error message " cannot connect to Netflix. " Prime,Sky,iplayer, Discovery + all work fine. Fibre to the home,latest BT router. Anyone else having same problems? I am literally 3 feet from the router. Going to cancel if this continues
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Stü
(@CerealKillerStu) reported
Sky Go is easily one of the worst on-demand players to use with such a horrific user experience. Try to skip forward? Yeah that's another 30 second advert for you even though you just watched one. iPlayer is great, all the others are utter shite.
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Stu Off Of The Internets
(@inremotepart) reported
Arctic Monkeys set on the iPlayer.... what's up with the sound? Crowd are really loud in the mix, louder than the band...... Maybe AM were unhappy with the sound quality, no wonder they didn't share it live!
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Wayland
(@ChalybeateSpa) reported
@LeeHurstComic Its is legal if you avoid the BBC login and BBC iPlayer and only watch on demand services using the internet no live over the air broadcast is permitted. To avoid being distributed by Capita write a letter to the BBC explaining what you are doing and why you dont need a license
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tom
(@tjbongos77) reported
@tanith_kane noo not at all, someone recorded the performance when it was streaming on iplayer. it might not work right now cause it only allows a certain amount of views per day cause its a google drive file, but itll work tomorrow :)
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Phil Williams
(@montaillacman) reported
@Gill_Catterall Must be stormy down your way then. We got a bigger dish 3 years ago and now rarely have a problem. Then there’s always iplayer.
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cheese ****
(@lauraaahhh1) reported
Watching Meg’s performance at RandL on iplayer on my work break. She be shakin her ath in the office
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jane crowley
(@daisynlil) reported
@RhonddaBryant We are lucky to get 3G of phone reception occasionally in our place in Pembrokeshire. Wi-Fi pathetic. Can’t download what I need to work from home. It’s idyllic if on holiday but hopeless if you need to work from home. Can’ watch an entire programme on iPlayer without buffering.
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TheF1Gaymer
(@ThatF1Gaymer) reported
Has anyone else have problems with the BBC iplayer version of tonight's edition of Spotlight?
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lèa saw am 🪩 THE CAR
(@_lescactus) reported
@ate666661 use vpn, connect to uk servers then make a bbc account. look up uk postcodes bc you need that to make an account and click on iplayer, click on the play button and click the top options until it starts the live stream
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Lynn MBE 🔥
(@Lynn_McGoo) reported
I'm watching the drama, #Marriage, on the iPlayer because it's so bad, I'm genuinely enjoying how terrible it is. It's AWFUL
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Beauers
(@Beauers) reported
Run The Jewels with the best set on the iPlayer so far this weekend, showing the working class little indie boy bands what energy is, crowd is ******* awful though of course. Can’t say I didn’t enjoy the Megan Thee Stallion set though too actually 👀
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James
(@MASTERCASSIUS) reported
Idk why @BBCiPlayer doesn’t have the performances that were live yesterday on iPlayer yet. But hey, @bbc coverage of festivals this year has been awful so what else could I expect?
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Orchard Alerind 💙😷
(@rcdl) reported
@virginmedia Back from holidays, CBeebies no longer "authorised" as a TV channel, so have to go through more clicks than the littles can count to get it via iPlayer app. How can I fix this for peaceful mornings?
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Barbara delaney
(@Barbara39823583) reported
@djhenshall When you're sitting in the swimming pool car park as daughters swimming club start back up hoping iPlayer will work 🤞
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Marie Lancaster
(@GingergalWales) reported
@Sianz @cardiffbites @S4C It was just a pain, logging in and then finding the actual thing to stream. It should have been on iPlayer but there was technical issues in Canada apparently.
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kian
(@KianMajor) reported
Just catching arctic monkeys Reading set on iplayer, why has everyone told me its ****? Unreal setlist and the band are quality 👏
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Lauryn 💜
(@BrightestLauryn) reported
HELP HOW DO I WATCH HALSEY AT READING??? Can't find it on iplayer 😭 @BBCR1 @OfficialRandL @halsey
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Duchess Sam Malin and the boy cat Lucy
(@SamanthaMalin) reported
Anyone else having a problem with the LBC iplayer ? I want to listen to James O'Brien but it isn't working.
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Jordan
(@jordanpomeroy00) reported
Appreciate this is akin to blasphemy but #ArcticMonkeys at #readingfesrival sounded awful… I listened to them do 505 on the iPlayer and it was utter utter ****. Turner is about a second behind the pace of the song throughout… was it like this throughout the set? #RandL22
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Robbie *******
(@RobbieCumming) reported
@TerrBailey Hi Terry they don’t have space to keep all the episodes on iPlayer apparently but hopefully they will hopefully be repeated at some point? I don’t know as i don’t work for the bbc