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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 (46%)
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Sign in (26%)
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Playback Issues (23%)
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Crashing (6%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Croydon |
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| Leeds |
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| Edinburgh |
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| City of Westminster |
Crashing | |
| Rochdale |
Buffering | |
| Swadlincote |
Buffering |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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J🥷
(@jspades9) reported
bbc iplayer has the worst interface, the fast forward and rewind is so jarring
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Jessamy Carlson
(@jessamycarlson) reported
@LucieWhitmore Oh you poor thing. That sounds miserable. Be kind to yourself today. The day after is often the worst in my experience. The entire of the West Wing is on C4Player. If you haven’t watched All Creautes Great & Small on C5 then it’s gorgeous and there’s the 1995 P&P on Iplayer...
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Duncs
(@dunks517) reported
@Cougie Unfortunately they’re not on iPlayer and the YouTube copies are of dubious quality.
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💜Rach_xx💚
(@SweetxButPsycho) reported
Any1 havin issues with #BTWIFI or #Iplayer 2day?
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Ian Hinchcliffe
(@exilednuma) reported
@BBCiPlayer is there anyone else out there thats getting thoroughly hacked off with being asked to type in the web address, sign in then add the code to sign in what feels like every other time I want to use IPlayer. It’s getting to a point where I will just give up using it.
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Dream2Mummy
(@Dream2Mummy) reported
@AriAround I just found it in bbc iplayer, I think hubby would rather have watched it than do his work call lol x
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Owen
(@owen_clarke7) reported
@XanderWright3 @drfc_official @FA i stand corrected, it’s on BBC iplayer this round, hopefully you have less issues with that
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Dave Baxter
(@dave_g8kbv) reported
@ryan2390 Actually made it onto the national Raynet weekly DMR net. Only 45 mins late! (Had binged an IPlayer series.) noticed my PiStar had updated overnight. 7AV Phoenix - BM bridge not working either.
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T^2 🙂
(@2BTSquared) reported
@garybrewer3325 @FatEmperor Apparently "BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues." Bummer. I like to tune into what Lord Sumption has to say when I can. But, being in the U.S., guess I'm just SOL this time.
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Adam Clemerson
(@adamjclem) reported
@foxmansion @TheBembridge It is a lot to pay for the weather, you’re right. But brace yourself... you also get 8 national radio stations, 30 or 40 local ones, 3 tv channels with a load of really high quality programming, BBC iPlayer with a massive vault of tv and movies, the news website, BBC sounds...
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Audrey Gillan
(@audreygillan) reported
@yevgordon Very little actually. Not iPlayer. Netflix I can't get Call My Agent to come up so I wonder if there are licensing issues in Portugal?
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wr / oatmeal hate acc
(@gillianspooky) reported
@scllygibson @StellafknScully It’s on BBC iPlayer too for free but the user interface the whole thing is one of worst I’ve seen
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Amanda
(@karaokequeen85) reported
@TerryClasper Something I'd like to know is how you get the iPlayer and stuff working on the LG? When I went into it it didn't speak those bits so do you need help, or will the magic remote solve it?
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Jeremy Wills
(@Jezbeds) reported
@virginmedia Why do my V+ boxes buffer so often when I’m trying to watch on demand content? I often give up and end up using the BBC iPlayer etc via the Smart TV instead. Over £100 per month for a TV/Broadband (350Mbps) & Landline! Beggars belief!!
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Vicky
(@_vickyjohnston_) reported
Watching the documentary about @GretaThunberg on iplayer and it’s disgusting what fully grown men/leaders are saying about her I think she’s so brave and just trying to change/preserve the planet 😡 why are people laughing at her? We only have one chance with this issue
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David Rickard
(@KingDaveRa) reported
It seems there's been some changes because there's now only eight episodes of Let's Play on iPlayer. It's one of The Boy's favourites, but his favourite episodes are mostly gone. Probably a good thing, he's terrible for getting stuck on one episode of something.
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Dylan Robinson
(@Dylanjibmonkey) reported
@Danny_McMoomins Doesn’t help that there is only about 8 of them on iPlayer. My nearly 2 yr old absolutely loves it. 🤯
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kevin defty
(@kevindefty1) reported
@_Jo_pu I don’t think so. It’s roughly based on life of single mother Pamela Adlon who is a voice over actress and did work on the simpsons I think. We probably watched on iplayer. Celia Imre is in it.
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Paul Evans 😱
(@Paul0Evans1) reported
BBC Sounds: an apology. I previously argued that BBC Sounds was an awful idea, and that it was a terrible mistake to close down iPlayer Radio. I now accept I was wrong about that.
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Alexander Bathurst
(@AlexBathurst) reported
@bealelab @imbadatlife @yuanyi_z From this public: this crap. From actually countering the pandemic: close most work, pay people to stay home, 2 week care packages for isolators, waive licence fee for iplayer,...
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PonteJack
(@somersetlevel) reported
@janepursey Sadly our reception here is awful ......Netflix and Prime at the moment, but I may watch it on iPlayer if it’s available later. Hope all good with you guys x
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Steffan Smith
(@SteffanSmith) reported
@nowtvhelp I am having regular problems with picture quality watching NOW tv via the Samsung TV app, it either becomes blurred or buffers. I have already tried the 'Reinstall' option, and am using fibre broadband. There are no problems with other apps, Netflix, iPlayer etc.
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matthew braga
(@mattbraga) reported
@kari_paul not sure about ITV but I know I still can't get iPlayer to work with Mullvad. I wonder if this is on Hayu though?
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ray
(@RayMrmilo) reported
@SonyUK But I have the youview app and itv hub BBC iPlayer etc. The issue is that itv hub does not recognise my post code. @YouViewSupport
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Ben
(@owlsfan83) reported
@BBCiPlayer Just downloaded Fridays episode of Would I lie to you from Sky Q and the quality of the HD is terrible. Artifacts all over the place. Can you please confirm the bitrate used on sky for iPlayer downloads. Thanks.
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👁👅👁
(@idakher) reported
So strange seeing PLL on BBC iPlayer now bc I remember when I used to cry bc my illegal stream wouldn’t work in yr 9
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Josh
(@JoshBates) reported
@SeyiSaysHi It reminds me of how I use Netflix UK to watch Star Trek: Discovery because I’m absolutely not signing up to CBS All Access / Paramount+ Both hate and understand why iPlayer doesn’t work legally outside the UK 🥲
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Niki Kaiser (K Chem)
(@chemDrK) reported
@76clarebear haha! No I don't! ;-) and that's the problem... But I really want to prioritise it a bit more, as I seem to find time for other stuff, like faffing around on Twitter! Just looked, and it's still on iPlayer, so that's a good plan :-)
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Horny Toed
(@HornyToed) reported
@BBCiPlayer pause/ffwd/rewind suddenly stopped working - has been fine for years. Still works fine on recordings or Netflix just the iplayer. Have tried for several programs eg Traces(VG btw) Watching thru Humax sat tv box- worked fine for yrs til today. Pls fix ta #newsnight
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RayHay
(@RForrestHay) reported
@ben_rich @CliveMyrieBBC Does anyone have a link to the report? Want to watch it from here in USA - iplayer doesnt work