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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 (62%)
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Buffering (18%)
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Crashing (18%)
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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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| Sheffield |
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| Oban |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ben James P H ⭕️ T O S
(@BenJamesPhotos) reported
from
Worthing, England
@trixie62315648 @Sanctuary2016 I don’t get BBC 4 as signal here is terrible. I’ll have a look later on iPlayer x
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MiddleAgedGeek 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
(@GeekAged) reported
@greggwatson90 I would much rather the 'Tory Cuckoos' currently in charge were evicted. If the BBC presented the news in a fair & balanced way with decent investigative journalism, then I would have no problems with paying the TV license fee. Well that & a major upgrade of the BBC iPlayer.
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Chris
(@Chris_R1805) reported
@OfficialBlues Anyones iPlayer not working?
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straymoose
(@straymoose101) reported
@catvalente BBC iPlayer might have it still if you can work around the system a bit…
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Cara Lisette
(@CaraLisette) reported
I’ve been having to watch episodes of Operation Ouch for work and now my iPlayer thinks I want to watch kids TV shows instead of Drag Race and Line of Duty
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Pete Ward
(@petewardart) reported
@richardosman As usual, loving tonight's #ROHOG on iPlayer - but what's with the American z's creeping in (epitomiZed & seculariZation in one question!)? Is someone using Word in U.S. format? You'll be slipping in the World's Worst Word, gotten, next!!!! 😱
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side step right left to my beat ⁷ 🧈
(@jhopeinmotion) reported
do i have to sign in to watch iplayer i still don't know how to get around not having a tv license in this country lmao
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Chris Tindall
(@chewytheleftie) reported
@MikeJ_A It doesn’t really work like that. It’s more of a platform, or it is the way we use it. We use it to watch iPlayer, YouTube, iTunes stuff we own, Now Tv etc. Lockdown 1 we watched all of London’s Burning
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Barry Koenecke
(@KoeneckeBarry) reported
@RupertLowe10 Worldwide subscription would work. I would gladly pay to get BBC iplayer in Africa.
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Eileen Palmer
(@palmerio56) reported
@peter_levy Missing you. Problem with sky dish. No local news, will have to catch it on iplayer tomorrow 🥴
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(@Migbuild) reported
iplayer experience ever made and I love Rockstar games for their incredible work on the epilogue and I will continue to buy gold bars for Red Dead Online to fund Rockstar's development of Red Dead Online because without my gold bar purchases they will go bankrupt and die.****.
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L@mb0
(@Lmb011) reported
@segul111 @julierfourteen @thecarolemalone I did say any BBC and or Iplayer which is digital. You do not need a Radio licence anymore even for BBC channels. I am trying to work out the hair split? I have not had a TV LICENCE for more than 12 years and will never ever buy another. I do have a Britbox subscription.
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Sex blog (of sorts)
(@sexblogofsorts) reported
Watching the Being AP documentary on iPlayer and I think extremely competitive men are: a) pretty hot b) pretty awful
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JJ Allerton
(@AllertonJj) reported
@bbc There is a sound problem - just buzzing - during the first few minutes of Canal Boat Diaries, Series 1: 5. Barton Swing Aqueduct to Liverpool Docks, streaming tonight on Iplayer (normal sound from 19:07). Rgds, JJA
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ᴮᴱনীলু⁷ (slow) 💜 ᵇᵗˢ 1365244 ∞
(@IwasKayammu1st) reported
Hi @BBCTheOneShow the program keeps freezing when it gets to the bts segment on iPlayer... I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem?
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van der Finz 🐥🆙
(@JamesFinbow) reported
Is iPlayer the shittest platform ever? It’s just unusable 99% of the time
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raymosley
(@raymosley) reported
@RoryAllinson @Matt_Walsh @benedictevans Just a note, I worked there, on iPlayer, 18 months ago. My mates work in children’s. Kids are disengaging with it far earlier than they used too. Canary in the coal mine that. It’s honestly in a tough spot and there isn’t a fix to the license fee. I hope they find a way like
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Inmy Opinion #FBPE 💙💚 #FBPA #FBPPR
(@InmyOpinion16) reported
Cummings has gone from iPlayer and the live Parliament feed of the S&T committee not working - what’s going on? #CummingsEvidence
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Gareth
(@gawuffy) reported
@adebradley I think there's an issue with the iPlayer app on the latest AppleTV software if you use that, even 'watch live' rolls back to the start of the stream. On Friday I'd thought This Time with Alan Partridge had gone completely meta by opening with The One Show.
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Natasha Henriques ♏️
(@Nattyhen80) reported
@BBCiPlayer Why am I having to sign in every single time I go onto iplayer now? Never had to do this before it always just remembered me. It’s such a hassle.
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amy 🌙
(@asphodelmoon) reported
@bt_uk Hi Karen, it seems to be working okay except when we try to use bbc iplayer. If we use bbc iplayer it disconnects the hub and we have to hard reset it. Have you heard of this problem before?
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Andy
(@Andy16512528) reported
@nightowlr80 They were a lot older and it did quiet work .Will not be on Iplayer now because of Noel Clarke
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TRIST
(@YNWA_4Life) reported
@adebradley tvOS 14.6 has just installed on mine, and seems to have fixed the iPlayer LIVE issue of rolling it back 2hrs. Fingers crossed it holds 🤞
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DasBoot73
(@Boot73Das) reported
@WestHamRambles A large chunk of his cash has been paid to Sean to ******* him while he binge watches find it fix it flog it on the iPlayer
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Emperor Palatine
(@fantasticlife) reported
If I am baffled by iplayer, you have to wonder how people who didn’t work on the blasted thing get on
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Stephen Anderson 🇬🇧
(@FattyBearDog1) reported
@RupertLowe10 @DefundBBC Have a nominal license fee of say £20 per year per household incorporated into general taxation. To pay for BBC 1 and local radio. BBC website goes behind a paywall, iPlayer and all other channels go subscription. That work for everyone?
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Paul Evens
(@curlymisteree) reported
Watching #BritainsBiggestDig with @theAliceRoberts and @OxfordYasmin. Absolutely fascinating. How did I miss episode 1? Iplayer do your work!
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Happy Homestead
(@HappyRemoteHome) reported
@deepwestwales @DefundBBC But paying it is optional, simply switch of live tv and the bbc iplayer. Never payed the telly tax in my life and have never broken the law by not paying. Simples.
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Not Batgirl⁷ᴳ
(@vante_fm) reported
@sevenamores if the site blocks it; weverse does 😭 idk how duckie gets around it... i think iplayer is fine bc i recorded strictly when they had a perf for dynamite but defo test it yeah lmk happy to help!!
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far⁷🇵🇸BUTTER LOCKDOWN
(@ftwsope) reported
Byee not bbc iplayer not working for me just before bts’ interview this is so unfair