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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 |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Clare McMenemy
(@highpoh) reported
I know a lot of us are down on the Beeb right now but there's a fascinating documentary about the Ever Given crash on iPlayer right now. (That's the ship that got stuck on the Suez canal last year... apparently the captain shouted "****!" just as they hit the bank. Quite...)
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Hazel R🧐thschild
(@HazelRothschild) reported
Anyone else having problems getting on @netflix #Netflix @NetflixUK this is the 3rd day it's not working! I just get the countdown of doom and it isn't my Internet because amazon, iplayer etc work fine?
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Martin D
(@Martind97352736) reported
@monkeyboy4334 Bollox I'm at work, hopefully catch it on iPlayer over the weekend 👍
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Sharon 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
(@f0ll0wy0urheart) reported
@wannalaughabit @emilymcminn_ms @SpotifyUK I’ve only ever had a free trial but will now be deleting it from my devices. While I’m at it I’ll delete BBC Sounds and iPlayer. I don’t understand people who have a problem with taking a stand or people who say they can separate art and artist either. I can’t.
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Ceri Hughes
(@MsAnnibyniaeth) reported
BBC iplayer taking piss. Asking me to enter code on screen. Go bbc/com/account to input code - asks you to sign in. Says password incorrect. Reset password - same message. What a TOTAL load of rubbish. Feel like putting foot through telly! As if BBC tory bias not enough!!
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Artemis, aka Termy (they/them)
(@Termy) reported
Sigh. 1am is the worst time to realise that all of dinnerladies has been restored to BBC iPlayer. The worst time. Because now I want to watch it. All of it. Again.
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Aaron
(@AaronNeely2017) reported
Anyone have a link to last nights #TheApprentice episode? Iplayer doesn't work in Ireland sadly
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Annabel Spinks-Jones 💬
(@AnnabelSpinks) reported
4am alarm, 14hr work day, now listening to kitch lounge jazz in a kebab/tandoor place, waiting for my veggie samosa & balti so I can finish downloading The Tourist on iPlayer before I get the tube home. Wouldn't have it any other way. 🥰 #setlife
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James Davies
(@jamesdouglasda2) reported
I'm absolutely blown away by the @BrewDog exposé on BBC iPlayer! the absolutely disingenuous business practices that's taking advantage of there's fans to make themselves rich, it's capitalism at its worst posing as punk! I'll never been drinking it again! #fuckbrewdog
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stjärnor
(@coloursatnight) reported
@William07491650 Do you manage *cough* to get iplayer over there? If you do, have you seen The Repair Shop? The earlier series are less full of sob stories, but you do get to see crafts people at work- you might like it, if you've haven't seen it.
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Rodge
(@roguez9) reported
please watch ‘Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust’ if you get a spare hour (iPlayer). Wonderful people that survived the worst experience ever. One of them gives us a great lesson: ‘don’t hate people. if you don’t like them then fine, but don’t hate’.
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Jade mcconnachie
(@missjadey30) reported
@davemabbott1984 @bbceastenders Record it or if you have bbc iPlayer can watch it on there. If you have any of them just thought to comment help
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Owen bestie🎯
(@fruitymob) reported
where i can watch BBC ghosts?? not in the iplayer cos doesn't work :((
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CJ
(@hampshirebus) reported
@BbcBring @russty_russ Cheers again. There's usually some 'alternative' sports around for free/dirt cheap rights. Bbc had senior snooker on the iplayer/red button not so long ago. & if Freesports channel can survive so could've Grandstand. Although Duck racing from Bognor Regis probably wouldn't work!
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Verity Taster
(@bridportshakesp) reported
Is anyone else having trouble getting iplayer BBC or Sounds to work? Have been trying for hours
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TheLangster
(@WaltChesney) reported
I’m not saying my life’s boring these days but I’m patiently watching the clock for when wifey finishes work so we can get last night’s Dragon’s Den on the iplayer..
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Steve Carroll
(@ScareAll) reported
@PolyglotJoC @ATWin80days hrm... i'll bet the missus would like this... do I need to VPN BBC iPlayer this or is there a US service offering it. the link says watch on PBS but that doesn't help when you are 5 eps behind.
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RYAN MACKFALL
(@ryanCRASHBURN) reported
FWIW this is on #BBC iPlayer for free. Top notch quality stuff. Something the tories know nothing about...
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Jared
(@Jski89469983) reported
@PippaCrerar I heard PMQs on radio instead of TV/iPlayer for the first time for years today (driving up the A1). Suddenly understood all those who say Starmer sounds robotic. Genuinely awfully unempathic. Something for him to try fix ahead of the next GE … #ExStarmerNate
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Darren Millar
(@Dmillar48204176) reported
@BBCiPlayer going to say this once this service is terrible can’t watch tv on catch-up because of this ****** service and the tv is now frozen won’t go back in iplayer seriously needs to change their crappy service this isn’t the first time I’ve complained about this crappy hub.
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Daft Penguin: Is it Friday yet?
(@Robnoady) reported
@saucymincks You just got the baby to sleep but missed the start of your favourite show doing so? Mute, iPlayer, subtitles on, watch from start, problem solved. What an absolute bellended gibbon this guy is.
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the ghost in the corner of the room 👻
(@70sGhostChild) reported
It was my first day in PQ today and my mother in law texted me to tell me her iPlayer is broken
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Lisa A
(@ljadamski) reported
@danbardell African Cup semi-final on iplayer if that gives you abit of footie fix 👍
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Lloyd Sparkes
(@lloydsparkes) reported
The solution is to charge for iPlayer at comparable rates - BUT to compete internationally, that way you generate more revenue without increasing the household cost. Simply because you have more customers. This would also help push British cultural output 3/.
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𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚢𝚍 𝚓𝚊𝚌𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚗 👨🏻💻
(@HOUmanReporter) reported
@samthemullet @jen_rice_ Will it work on BBC iplayer stuff?
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Catriona Denley
(@CatDenley) reported
@BBCiPlayer trying to watch iPlayer on the TV and the 02110 error code is appearing. Please could you advise on how we resolve this? Thank you
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Mandz
(@GingerMandz) reported
@Jim41254103 Agreed. Unfortunately I have only been able to watch the first 2 eps and can't watch the rest as iplayer won't work here 😭
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ciaran
(@shunburger) reported
how does bbc iplayer not have charlie and lola its a ******* cbeebies show @BBC FIX THIS NOW.
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Jared
(@Jski89469983) reported
@PippaCrerar I heard PMQs on radio instead of TV/iPlayer for the first time for years today (driving up the A1). Suddenly understood all those who say Starmer sounds robotic. Genuinely awfully unempathic. Something for him to try fix ahead of the next GE … #ExStarmerAte
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(@FranklinD114) reported
@MaryTheGeordie I watched it on iPlayer this morning, it's terrible.