iPlayer down or not working? Problems, status and outages

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of iPlayer reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by iPlayer users through our website.

• Sign in (31%)
• Buffering (25%)
• Playback Issues (25%)
• Crashing (19%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Didcot	Playback Issues	3 days ago
Southampton	Playback Issues	4 days ago
Cheltenham	Buffering	7 days ago
Aberdeen	Sign in	11 days ago
Cardiff	Buffering	11 days ago
Chichester	Sign in	11 days ago

Full Outage Map

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iPlayer Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mike pegg (Joenus) (@pegg97) reported 3 seconds ago

  @rhipratchett just caught the watch on bbc3 via the iplayer. I know I'm coming in late here, but seriously. What have they done with the city watch? I just can't get my head around the changes they've made to Terry's work.

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  Darren Jalland (@CountingSheep5) reported 5 minutes ago from Falkirk, Scotland

  @michaelglasper A couple of days ago after watching God's Of Snooker on iPlayer. Steve Davis was the only one who didn't need to be double tracked in order to sound slightly less awful, apparently.

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  bex 💓 (@heartofsmine) reported 7 minutes ago from Monachil, Andalusia

  how does one watch druk vs the world if you arent in the uk and iplayer wont work xx

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  Scott Shaw (@ScottyDshaw90) reported 15 minutes ago

  Anyone else got sound issues on BBC iPlayer for the seniors darts?

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  lee harris (@leeharris85) reported 15 minutes ago

  @virginmedia any chance of sorting the on demand apps out put the monthly bill up but iplayer itv hub all 4 etc not working!!

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  LostInSpace (@LostInS35354108) reported 16 minutes ago

  @shortword @elonmusk @nurodev I collected my M3LR 4/12/21. Kpn seemed to have resolved the uk location issue then my connectivity board was swapped out on 14/1. Since then I can’t access iPlayer on lte in the uk and have NL ads in YouTube. Any ideas?

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  Simon Awdry (@WineInWales) reported 17 minutes ago

  @freesat_tv Is there an issue with the BBC iPlayer app. Getting an "Invalid Link" when trying to launch it on my Humax HB 1109

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  Sheenagh McCann 🇮🇪 💙 (@power_mccann) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TinypootIta Our issue is the access to WiFi and bbc iplayer unfortunately and the two hour drive. We have booked to stay in Enniskillen for 3 nights in July to see if we can push him a little further to Donegal on a day trip. It will depend if that works or not. This is the first year 1/

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  Share & 🅴njoy (@Go_SYH_In_A_Pig) reported 21 minutes ago

  @SebastianEPayne I want to watch this car crash later. Is it available on iPlayer?

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  PoliticsForMuppets🐸🐷 (@Karl_Downey) reported 22 minutes ago from Milton Keynes, England

  They should have just added a live scheduled broadcast to #BBCThree's page on iPlayer. Bringing it back as a main channel in 2022 doesn't work.

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  Stephen Graham (@StephenCVGraham) reported 26 minutes ago

  I didn't have any issues with BBC3 coming back, but I'm not seeing the point if the shows it's putting out are already on iPlayer in their entirety.

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  Mark Lane 🇪🇺 (@MarkLane1965) reported 28 minutes ago

  @wmarybeard At work, but definitely will on iplayer

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  Ritch (@pitchfork_ritch) reported 29 minutes ago

  @SeniorsDarts Sorry @BBCSport the sound and feed is just terrible. Gonna watch @OfficialPDC instead and hope iPlayer has a worthy version in the morning

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  Tony Payne 🌊🌊 (@poddys) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AidWarwickshire There are, but it doesn't seem to work with the ITV Hub unfortunately. If only it was that simple. By the time we kept going in and out of Corrie last night, the episode ended and then it wasn't available. iPlayer works ok, as do other apps.

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  Ben Coley (@BenColeyGolf) reported 35 minutes ago

  @TomJCarlisle I wasn’t watching but was he asked about the allegation that the Labour front bench has a drugs problem? If so, I will fire up iplayer.

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  Brian O'Keefe (@rider45) reported 37 minutes ago

  @icod There’s a great documentary on the iPlayer called Why Ships Crash, about that ship, didn’t realise how a pile up accident was narrowly avoided.

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  Littlemissred1983 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍🌈wear a mask (@Littlemissred14) reported 38 minutes ago

  Trying to watch the senior darts on iplayer dear god the sound awful @BBCSport sort it out...

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  MW 🥛 (@MagichaeI) reported 39 minutes ago

  Just watched 'The Decade the Rich Won' on iPlayer. The QE and Help to Buy explanations were good, as was the context for Coalition austerity, but overall there was not a huge amount of educational value - lacking much actual analysis. 🙃 #edutwitter #EconTwitter #econ2

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  Jakey Wakey (@Jakey_Wakie) reported 42 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Not sn area issue. I have spinning wheel on BBC iplayer on my 2nd virgin box. I have 1G broadband, speed test via email is 1bms to 30bms

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  Nae Twittér Ava (@ScotchTaakin) reported 44 minutes ago

  @SeawrightDaniel @BBCiPlayer shame tho: (BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues.)

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  Mike Ellis (@drum_puppy) reported 45 minutes ago

  I've become a bit enthralled by a car crash investigation series on iPlayer, tragedy, mystery, intrigue, investigation, conclusion. Great stuff, but I'm a bit concerned that quite a lot of drivers involved are not only pissed at the point of impact, but off their tits on coke.

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  Alex Agnew (@AlexAgnewAA) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Comqton IPlayer? Or does that not work

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  Paul Truswell (@TrussyPaul) reported 49 minutes ago

  @rogers_soro @Dej_joy @ManUtdWomen ...and BBC iPlayer but FA Player is better quality (HD).

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  Jeff (@Jeff95838825) reported 50 minutes ago

  @JackieSharpe1 Yes over a year ago. We only watch programmes on catchup services excluding iPlayer. It is much better watching our choice of quality programmes at times which suit us. I don’t miss being brainwashed by the gutter media. Try it for a month.

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  James | #StayAtHome Is Optional;Please Be Sensible (@Autisticosaurus) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Metro_Ents It honestly was such a moronic move by the @BBC - they seemed to just want to push the iPlayer and used that as it, iirc they used some weird 3 strip/Wi-Fi hybrid as the logo Issue was bluntly, the UK has **** Wi-Fi

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  Ritch (@pitchfork_ritch) reported 52 minutes ago

  Sorry @BBCSport the sound and feed is just terrible. Gonna watch @OfficialPDC instead and hope iPlayer has a worthy version in the morning

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  Peely (@Peely1973) reported 56 minutes ago

  @greybrow53 @BBCWales @BBCXRay So it might be on BBC iPlayer … I’ll have a look tomorrow. I’m interested, as I had an issue last year that was only noticed by luck. I was shocked that Companies House let it happen. Although lady I spoke to there, helped sort it very quickly.

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  Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@Marshallmedia) reported 56 minutes ago

  Taking "BBC 3" content online was the correct decision. The trouble was viewing that content was only possible via the iplayer, which on many devices is a terrible experience.

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  Iain (@Nipper100) reported 56 minutes ago

  @ITV Don’t normally get the chance to listen to you with work apart from iPlayer you have made me laugh 1) worst school punishment put a circle in every other box on the smallest graph paper 2) re pens the lady in the bikini although wrong on every level 3) I would 1/2

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  Andrew Devonshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@A_Devonshire180) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SeniorsDarts Sound problem on iplayer ?