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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 (37%)
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Playback Issues (26%)
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Sign in (24%)
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Crashing (13%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Croydon |
Playback Issues | |
| Coventry |
Crashing | |
| Manchester |
Playback Issues | |
| Colchester |
Sign in | |
| Redcar |
Buffering | |
| Reading |
Crashing |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Aaron Heslehurst
(@bbcaaron) reported
@Brimstoneflyer Thanks mate! No not censored - musta stupid technical error in the gallery the day it went out (Saturday) Someone obviously pressed a wrong button. Unfortunately what goes out on air is what goes up on iPlayer. Looking to get that resolved
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Stuart Terry
(@StuartTerry18) reported
Not impressed with IPlayer coverage of Wimbledon finals @bbctennis . Home from work yesterday and no clear link to Women’s final, While searching came across result .Now watching Men’s with radio 5 coverage over pictures. Great coverage for the radio but not for TV .
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Lee Burrows
(@deminimismusic) reported
Why is the N.Ireland v Austria stream perfectly clear on the BBC football website but bloody awful on the BBC iPlayer stream?
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Funkyrobot™ 🦊 🇺🇦
(@Funkyrob0t) reported
@ParamountPlusUK @SkyHelpTeam Thanks. It’s fine today. It’s way more buggy than Netflix, Disney, iPlayer etc on Sky Q. Seems to work 50% of the time
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Chríss
(@Chriss_m) reported
@afneil @Channel4 The problem with Channel 4 is how rubbish its app is. Always used to catch you on iPlayer. I know that’s not your problem! But just flinging that out there for Channel 4.
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*****
(@twuntline) reported
@BBCiPlayer I missed two goals due to iPlayer buffering then stopping partway in. I've watched Netflix all day today on my Roku with no problem so why is iPlayer so much worse?
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RuleeP
(@Ruleep) reported
@FreeviewAdvice no coverage last night (zero signal). Very little today, resorted to watching through iPlayer. Know box is fine as two different boxes. Any issues in / for Hannington transmitter group?
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Swansonian
(@swansonian) reported
@lucyinglis I can't get the link to work but it was a repeat from 2020 but I hadn't seen it before. It should be on iPlayer now I imagine. It was a Horizon episode called The Wonders Of Space.
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Carol
(@flic22s) reported
@IanTnf I have no idea how to watch , as I have to rely on iplayer no idea if the night session will be up by 6am to ram in before I go to work at 9 before watching the live morning in our afternoon
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Sam Radford
(@samradford) reported
@mgsiegler @hbomax Is there something particular that makes downloading for offline watching particularly hard? Other than Apple TV+ content, we regualarly have issues with BBC iPlayer, Netflix, and Disney+ with downloaded content.
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LadyJai 🇺🇦💙👑
(@BaggieBirdd66) reported
from
Birmingham, England
I've just watched the Mo Farah documentary on the iPlayer, hopefully it will highlight the awful domestic slave situation that still happens in 2022. I'm glad he's coming to terms with what happened to him. This is why the government cannot send people to Rwanda.
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「 𝖏𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 」— fan account
(@maryjanehllnd) reported
i’ma just watch on bbc iplayer later because i’m not live hopping for a live full of skips and tracphone quality.
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isvicthere
(@isvicthere1) reported
@cormackmikey1 @Harley_Tory You mean BBC IPlayer? Checking because they know who watches it via your login. I think.
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charlene
(@charlz_29) reported
The fact that you have to sign in for absolutely every ******* thing online is the most annoying thing in the world. Why ******** do I need a BBC profile to watch something on iPlayer??????
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Helen2065
(@Helenjoylast2) reported
@WirelessFest I wasn't very thrilled with BBC three last night on iPlayer we had to wait all that time and then they didn't show Nicki's performance at all thought sorry that's terrible I was looking forward to seeing it all day.
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𝕰𝖒𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 ⛓💜
(@BarbieBondage) reported
@CHROMATlGA It won't work because iPlayer detects when you're using VPN :(
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Keith Brace-John 💉💉💉
(@KeithBraceJohn) reported
@MartinDaubney I like my viewing/listening to be high quality and ad-free which is what I get for my licence fee with BBC Sport, Radio, News, Online Content, iPlayer, Sounds app, Weather, Music and regional programming… and isn’t Mr Lineker and others getting well paid shaped by the market?
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Hasib Ahmed
(@h6brane) reported
@BBCiPlayer Why can't we watch local news in the iPlayer anymore? I live in Edinburgh, I don't care about London news. My location is set to my postdoc, it simply doesn't work.
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karranoconnor #WeStandWithLewis
(@karranoconnor) reported
@BBCSport We came home from work at 10pm to watch mens Wimbledon final. Avoided hearing result! Its now nearly 2300hrs & it's STILL not available on iplayer! Everything else is available but NOT this final; WHY NOT?? & u have splashed results around! Ridiculous; bloody annoyed!
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Hasib Ahmed
(@h6brane) reported
@BBCiPlayer Why can't we watch local news in the iPlayer anymore? I live in Edinburgh, I don't care about London news. My location is set to my postdoc, it simply doesn't work. I don't recall paying less license fee than a Londoner.
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Ja©k
(@44Jackk) reported
@ell_cfc Break rn innit? Or is my iPlayer broken
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chloë
(@spampi_anatomy) reported
@L_DeLucaBishop I can’t believe I had to work and miss it all, Call me BBC iPlayer I’m playing catch up
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Georgio Moroso
(@DeepMidwinter) reported
@CQEdinburgh Sat in the airport at Vienna, RDP through work in the UK and on Iplayer. Ridiculous.
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The Big Red
(@SimonBrittain3) reported
@BBC why can I not watch the England game on iplayer? Says not available in my location but all the other channels work...
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Neil Gilbert
(@neilgilbert1963) reported
@BBC why are you the worst online viewing platform, pay my license fee and BBC iplayer can't even provide a usable watching experience time upon time upon time. Totally useless and I have to pay for it!!!
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Sam Davis
(@samdavisuk) reported
@stued1976 @roundaboutdave If it’s anything like the hospitals down this way, any bandwidth heavy services like iPlayer, Netflix and Prime Video are blocked (or unusable) on their Wifi.
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Cerys 🦇🧛🏻♀️
(@belovaciteh) reported
from
Cheadle Hulme, England
Up and out the house for an early shift at work and then gonna go back home to watch @CrawlersHQ on iplayer !!!!
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Chris
(@ChrispyContent) reported
@ChrisIvory10 @BBCWilliamWho @PaulMorris7777 Doctor Who, regardless of its current quality is a major money maker for the show. Especially in terms of merchandise. Viewing figures have dipped, like they have across the board with every TV show. On iPlayer the show does really really well. Times have changed mate, keep up
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Greg Proffitt
(@gproffitt34) reported
@SEAMONKEYOO7 @SkyUK I wouldn't say it's an upgrade to glass. The TV itself is very good sound quality is brilliant. But the watchability of glass is awful you can't record so your dependent on playlists then waiting for shows to go on iplayer or its hub etc to watch, any Internet issues yiu lose TV
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Neil Pyper
(@NeilPyper) reported
@BBCSport @BBCTwo @BBCiPlayer Lots of blurry images of this match when watching on the iPlayer. Are there technical issues?