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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 (31%)
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Sign in (27%)
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Playback Issues (25%)
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Crashing (16%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Reading |
Sign in | |
| Hackney |
Playback Issues | |
| Poplar |
Sign in | |
| Horncastle |
Sign in | |
| Leicester |
Crashing | |
| London |
Playback Issues |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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DFT
(@DFTPNK02) reported
iPlayer is not working again ffs
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koheitag ᴾʳᵒᵒᶠ
(@GentTracy) reported
@alicatcrumbcake Does iplayer work like the world service? I have no idea?
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Jim Love 👩🚀 🏴 💉💉💉
(@jimmywim) reported
@BinaryJam @woobasher Not sure, the iPlayer coverage isn't bad. 5 stages live. The main BBC coverage isn't terrible, 5pm-2am split across BBC One and Two.
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Nigel Morrison
(@MorrisonNigel) reported
@BBC #glasto BBC you can show a clip of Macca at the start of News at 10 but it’s not on iPlayer or BBC TV until an hour after he came on stage ? Worst coverage for a few years I’m afraid
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Philireland
(@philirelandlfc) reported
@BBCiPlayer is iplayer down??? It's not working on the firestick
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𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗿
(@Exactly1louder1) reported
@GoonerMetalhead My iplayer wouldn't work last night 😒
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JulieBAVFC
(@Julie_Bayley_) reported
@Son_Lyme Yes indeed Son a football fix tonight on iPlayer at 7pm @England #AVFC #U19EURO
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The__Farmster
(@The__Farmster) reported
Hey @SkyHelpTeam I just wanted to let you know how utterly awful your #skygo desktop app is. Spends all its time buffering. All my other streaming apps work perfectly though. So the problem is sky go. Ditched it for BBC iPlayer. Which is working perfectly.
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Ian
(@rutherian) reported
@JohnStockman1 Okay. Sign in iplayer and goto the Glastonbury channel. They broadcast all the main stages live and the pyramid is 4K UHD.
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Bette Pan Di Stelle🇺🇦
(@labellehelene) reported
@ishkolhatkar @jamabing @PaulHeatonSolo The iPlayer coverage has been terrible this year - hard to find anything and a number of performances everyone talking about Seem not to have been recorded. I assume it’s cuts.
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Lee
(@ljk1892) reported
The Avalanches now on iPlayer at Glastonbury. Beautiful quality electronic music
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Alex Watson
(@aljwatson) reported
@jarleth_eaton Most likely the management for McCartney won't allow it. They will want time to edit/fix things in the broadcast. Whether permission was originally given and then withdrawn I don't know, as it was supposed to be live on iPlayer I think.
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Steve
(@stevebristoluk) reported
I can't get the iplayer to work on my TV which is a bit **** when i'm watching #Glastonbury2022 .. 😬
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nia 5
(@ATTHEB0RDERLlNE) reported
how do i watch olivia without iplayer help
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Thomas
(@TMLFC19) reported
@DarwinsEvo_ Iplayer dosent work in Ireland will need to be youtube
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Jim Love 👩🚀 🏴 💉💉💉
(@jimmywim) reported
@woobasher Aye, the coverage isn't terrible, 5pm-2am across BBC One and Two, 5 stages live on iPlayer. I think there's just that much content, it'd be good for them to cover more stages live though.
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Chris
(@CEtchingham77) reported
@YICETOR They really are, Wolf Alice and Wet Leg yesterday. I’m going to listen Girl In Red on iPlayer when I’m at work Monday
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Steven W
(@SteJWi22) reported
@ProducerOllie @aljwatson ‘My case’? - My suggestion. Sorry it doesn’t meet your expectation. Didn’t infer there were no swear words on iPlayer. Perhaps record labels didn’t want the content there eh? Then again, it’s a lot easier to blame the bbc for every issue isn’t it?
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Oonagh Robinson
(@OonaghRobinson) reported
@andrewperrin83 The whole coverage is awful this year. Can’t work out what to watch, look on iplayer and no idea what to click. Just show it live for a few hours on bbc2
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🦊 Cate 🦊
(@CateFox) reported
@JeniB4 Iplayer has been really skippy, jumping through songs do I don’t know if there are issues with it
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Mark
(@aireuropa1973) reported
@BBCNewsEnts Why is it not live streamed on iPlayer? Terrible coverage, ruined for tv viewers.
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Sandra Foy
(@Monkbythesea) reported
Does the #Glastonbury iPlayer app actually work? Tried to watch Haim but it goes nowhere.
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Gareth Davies
(@gjdavies70) reported
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Bridgend, Wales
@StevieVanZandt BBC Iplayer Stevie? Does that work?
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hailey 🧣
(@nobodynoswift) reported
@sourarig if you try a vpn it should work, I’ve done it with bbc iplayer before
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Paul
(@echoespaul) reported
@johnmerro1 @sportingintel Yup. And no UHD coverage either on iPlayer. Wasn't a problem last night for Billie's set.
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Lilly Reuter
(@lillyreuter_x) reported
@luvsomebodyelse It's still on iplayer, I went back and watched it because it wouldn't work for me properly xx
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Rebecca Jones
(@beckmjones) reported
We’re finding it very hard to get subtitles to work on iPlayer, is anyone else having a similar problem?
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Mhairi Porterfield 💙
(@iriaveel) reported
@BBCSport I think the BBC iplayer is broken, there was a severe lack of field events shown today. Can you try and sort this for tomorrow's coverage of the @BritAthletics champs? Ta much 👍
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Mark
(@aireuropa1973) reported
@GlastoLive Why not live on iPlayer, awful
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Peachy
(@iepeach) reported
@StuartBettey Seriously though iplayer is great this year and they’ve broken it down into categories so there’s stuff like ‘hidden gems’ and ‘dance party’ ‘wind down’ 👍🏻