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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 |
Buffering | |
| 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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🧡🖤 Stuart W. Carlisle 🔴⚪
(@stuartcrfc1939) reported
@Justy1995 Suppose that's not the worst. Yes, its on BBC iPlayer pal.
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JJ Clapton
(@JJClaptonWrites) reported
Anyone have any recommendations for a VPN to pay for? I specifically need it to work for iplayer and itv because I want to watch the six nations rugby....but any suggestions of ones that are working well for you would help?
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lynda wodehouse
(@jerseyboyslady) reported
@howveryarnott Oh no once it’s on weekly I don’t binge watch as it dosent help the ratings but I mean the first 5 on iplayer . I can wait for the next week buts it’s hard lol
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jmay
(@netnotblanket) reported
@BBCr4today in your haste to advertise and promote the awful BBC Sounds (so much inferior to radio iPlayer); you condensed the weather forecast so dramatically that it made it totally pointless!
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Stephen Higham
(@The_Gnome_118) reported
@BlackdogPodcast I’ve been getting nothing but error pages off iplayer for a week now. Glad it’s not just me.
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Jamie
(@lolhieveryone) reported
Is it just my eyes or is the BBC iplayer quality on smart TV’s ******* awful
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Me, myself and I.
(@GamerNorthUK) reported
@Dannyoconnor430 @Keir_Starmer @Alison_McGovern The cost of running a club at this time is an issue. You could speak with FA about all tv revenue split evenly for games for example if your still in FA cup your games not on tele but iPlayer for example the tv revs put in a pot and then shared evenly.
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edward bowles
(@edwardbowles1) reported
@StewartWood ‘Record it’...iPlayer dude... Let’s fix that walk on Hampstead Heath.
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Trevor Gibbons
(@trevorgi) reported
Yes, to #Theinvestigation No, to iPlayer on this one. I want to look forward to this awful true tale. Mesmerising TV.
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Tom Wilson
(@feedthedrummer) reported
@markomarkindale It does, and iPlayer is quite buggy. Though Amazon Prime seems to have the best selection and maybe video quality?
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Andy Vale
(@AndyVale) reported
@Grace_Segers @abrahamjoseph The Full English is a massively overrated thing, but let's not pretend American bacon is anything to sing about. Netflix selection still mostly terrible though. But iPlayer and All4 have decent lineups atm.
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Norma Bruce
(@nornabruce) reported
@smokymozzarella How do I get it? Red button wants me to sign in but rejects my info after 2 attempts. Other device with iPlayer doesn’t admit to knowing about athletics. Wail
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Greg ****
(@greg_bint) reported
@BBCiPlayer hate it when we have to watch anything on iplayer as the rewind fwd function is virtually unusable!!! 😤
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Karen
(@Superdoopee) reported
Is anyone else have trouble with the commentary on iPlayer? It’s telling the the event ended? #swfc #didwewin
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David *****
(@DavidBoink) reported
@gailebishop @Sheepie_1985 @All4 What you talking about, that was a brilliant synopsis without giving anything away. Hope your All4 has sorted itself out by now. I'm on Virgin and had terrible trouble with iplayer so much that I had to reduce picture quality to watch The Serpent.
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Mike Hughes
(@mike_hooz) reported
@BBCiPlayer Haven't touched the cookies, and it still keeps switching itself back on, even in the same browser session. Even tried logging out, clearing cookies, logging back in. Still does it. BTW, I work for one of the CDNs iPlayer uses - so I am a techie. Something seems amiss.
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stu🏴🇮🇪
(@Stu85M) reported
@SonyUK hi, I have a sony bravia tv that refuses to play sound on apps like iplayer and Spotify without resetting the TV , from a quick Google search I am not alone in this problem. Do you have a fix for this or shall I send it back. Thanks Stu
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Dom
(@dom_taylor123) reported
@PeterWard3 Had to watch it on iplayer in work, couple lads watched first half on their break swapped at half time, heard the roar from hogarths before it had gone in on my screen. Closed work as soon as we could went down to hogarths celebrating
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Aide Smith
(@ItsAideonlynow) reported
Anyone else find that Iplayer seems to work better on IPTV than for anyone who pays £10 a pop?
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ǝʌǝʇS ǝɥ⊥
(@TheMightySteve) reported
@davidpick1987 @NOWTVSport There’s a number of problems with streaming - Sky Go, iPlayer etc with the addition of it being 1 min behind real time. Don’t think there’s anything you can do about that but it’s weird that you can’t sort the lag
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Lee Mc
(@LeeMc80788467) reported
@StanCollymore The serpent bbc iplayer stan quality 👌
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Dawn D
(@DawnD75575075) reported
@semadivad How do you film a hospital drama socially distanced? No hands on with patients etc must be odd (I live in NZ now and can't get iplayer to work here anymore 😞 AND the show is about 3 years behind 🙄)
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Andy Haigh
(@Wolverinesclaws) reported
Sign in via the web browser, click on iPlayer on the BBC's website and it brings up the sign in screen again, which doesn't work.
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Add your name
(@PaulFrame85) reported
@feedthedrummer IPlayer. The quality is usually better
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Lesley H 💙
(@motherhen0109) reported
@GriffDog84 @CliveMyrieBBC Having trouble locating it on iPlayer - a link would be great. Thanks.
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Audrey Rooney-Ellis #staysafe #NHSblueheart
(@AudreyRE) reported
We are re-watching @RobotWarsUK on BBC iPlayer. Really wish they would re-work the idea and bring it back. Such a great show.
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Garry Bacon
(@gbacon85) reported
@winkveron I have my issues with him (in all honesty I think this clouds my assessment of his music) but anything about him is utterly fascinating. He has the kind of magnetism that draws people in. Rest of the eps are all on the iplayer as well so that's the rest of the day gone.
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Terri
(@terrimartin210) reported
@virginmedia Upgraded to M200 with Virgin media 2 days ago. Speed is averaging 30Mb. Phoned up to be told my Internet usage was and i quote "Unacceptable". Work from home, home schooling then at night YouTube, Netflix, Amazon prime, BBC Iplayer, STV player (HD or 4k streaming) 4
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English79 on gab.ai
(@EnglishGent79) reported
@EternalEnglish It's awful every time I switch on the iPlayer it's uphill gardeners and joggerz 🙄
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T.
(@galahadlake) reported
Watching University Challenge (sorry, grandad, but iplayer exists). It'd be much easier to enjoy if Jeremy Paxman worked out that talking over the audience's applause is the work of an amateur.