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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 (58%)
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Buffering (28%)
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Crashing (10%)
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Sign in (5%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Yarm |
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| Treharris |
Buffering | |
| Manchester |
Playback Issues | |
| Inverurie |
Buffering | |
| City of London |
Crashing | |
| Newton-le-Willows |
Buffering |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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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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Harry The Whovian 🏳️🌈🧩
(@harrythewhovian) reported
@jolomonthewise I do aswell, but for some reason Torchwood on iPlayer feels like it's a better picture quality to the DVDs I have. I might be imagining things though lol.
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TERRY STEVENS💙✡️
(@ttastev) reported
@BBC6MusicBot @mogwaiband Have to have a listen on iPlayer, was on my way home from work when it was live.
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Charles Pontoon (I will not watch my effing tone)
(@CharliePontoon) reported
Seriously, anyone tuning in already knows about BBC Sounds and the various "comedy hours", we don't need telling between every single programme, and that tune is really annoying. and BBC Sounds doesn't work on my Sony Bravia, neither has iplayer since you changed it
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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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Mister Mike 🏴🇮🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪🇷🇴💙
(@popemike80) reported
@Twitfacephil @MarinaNigrelli It can have 6000 radio channels. Doesn't mean people use them. Netflix has more users than iPlayer. Which means people are happy to pay 70 quid a year for as free, quality on demand content. The BBC is not providing quality or value any more. Nor impartiality.
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Stephen Price
(@Stevieprice73) reported
@virginmedia John , STV player & iPlayer still not working 😳
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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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edward bowles
(@edwardbowles1) reported
@StewartWood ‘Record it’...iPlayer dude... Let’s fix that walk on Hampstead Heath.
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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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Ben
(@Ben31362266) reported
@ylee2130 I'm kinda new to Linux I don't use Chromium on my 32bit Machine as there is no DRM So I can't watch 4od or BBC iPlayer. I'm guessing it would be the same for a 64bit. I'm sure there is a workaround for experienced users. God help us if we ever lose Firefox 😳
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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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Mike Hall
(@MikeHall2018) reported
@DrJacobsRad @CBCNews @RosieBarton Oh yea.... she's as neutral as can be! lol ..... that's part of the reason that CBC probably has no idea how it's perceived by even most middle of the roaders as being very biased. BBC has somewhat the same problem, but has MUCH more to offer with its iPlayer
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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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IBBoard
(@IBBoard) reported
Watching something on iPlayer. There was a trailer. Missed the first few words but I'm sure they then said "…Tottenham was one of the worst points in my life" and that sounds entirely believable!
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John Clegg
(@Johnimator00) reported
@GemmaandDoc @JohnWest_JAWS I once 'phoned the folks to help 'em set-up iPlayer. After an age but was prob only a couple of mins, I asked (something like...) "So has it come up yet? Can you see it?" "Oh, no. The laptop's in the kitchen. We're in the front room. We'll do it later." For Gandalf's sake...!
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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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Greg
(@Greg_boden_) reported
@freyaerin_ ngl I couldn't find remember my iplayer login so I wouldn't know
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Neural Profit Engines
(@NeuralProfit) reported
@Ayjchan @BBCTwo It seems to be an issue with BBC's iPlayer
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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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Gary Parker
(@WiteWulf) reported
@LenovoSupport Thanks, iPlayer,Netflix and amazon prime video are all working fine. Disney+ was fine until this weekend, and the only that's changed was insatlling the December security OS update. Seems to be a common problem across lots of devices, so guessing it's Disney's fault 🤷🏻
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Talia :)
(@bensbobby) reported
compiling happy bobby clips for a fancam & im going through all his scenes on iplayer becuase i couldn’t find much high quality stuff on yt - will this take forever? yes
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Tyrant 🥴
(@Tominos76) reported
@butterflyblue_1 @NetflixUK See, theres the problem iplayer is awful
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Tasha Bibby 🍁🍂
(@_Tibby_) reported
from
Portsmouth, England
@RokuSupport why does iPlayer crash the Roku box everytime you try and open the app? It works fine for about 3 months and now it doesn’t work at all? 🤨
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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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John Smith 3.5%
(@Sobriquet4me) reported
@bel_nagy Nasty piece of work...don't know if it's still on iPlayer but Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty is good if you didn’t catch it...
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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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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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Karz From The 'Ding 🙄💙🦆☕🍺🇪🇺🦉🐧
(@FFSKarz) reported
@Kate_urzzzz I've got as far as downloading the iPlayer, but everything is such an effort today. Haven't slept well for a fortnight now, and I actually took my meds at 8:15pm in the hope that they'll kick in quickly and help me get off.