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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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Sign in (24%)
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Playback Issues (24%)
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Crashing (14%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
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| Kilrea |
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| Coventry |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Mikey C
(@Mike12767) reported
@M0lly_Writes I was hoping to watch it at work but after 10 minutes of trying to understand the inadequate BBC iPlayer and then searching Eurosport, I gave up
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carol mcgee
(@carolmcgee70) reported
Erm @BBCiPlayer @BBCOne @bbceastenders I switched on BBC iPlayer to watch my weekly fix of EastEnders 2009 and the episodes have not been uploaded!!! I hope this is an error and you haven’t scrapped them. I want to relive Stacey’s bipolar storyline!!!! #EastEnders #EastEnders2009
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Tanuj Dua
(@TanujDua) reported
@Hanxx @BBCiPlayer oh haha I misunderstood! Our iPlayer wasn't turning them on when we were watching Line of Duty, so could be BBC hasn't bothered with them? Or the app is broken!
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LJCancerSlayer
(@mojomarconi) reported
@Steeler2206 I've been watching BBC iPlayer. Don't know about sky or any other channels as I got rid of sky last year. Fed up of paying £65 a month for repeats and awful reality shows.
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Ryan Fawcett
(@ryanfawcett) reported
@mrianleslie Would recommend The Crash Reel on iPlayer at the mo.
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Agent Pumpkin 💙
(@agentpumpkin) reported
@skorroheim The BBC coverage is terrible. All over the place. Thought I would catch some Olympic replays on BBC2 this morning, but they had repeats of daytime tv instead. Wtf? Had to trawl through iPlayer to find Adam Peaty's gold win.
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Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast
(@Wrestling20Yrs) reported
@TinkHolloway Discovery + (and ergo, Eurosport) have THE exclusive rights to show *everything* live. First time that has been taken away from free-to-air. The F-T-A broadcaster can now show no more than two live events at any one time. So Iplayer/Red Button won't help many people now...
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NILE
(@nilechunky) reported
@RowdsDG You sucked me in... I was trying to get work done and into bed. Now I'm on iPlayer ffs
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Émile Perron
(@cunrakes) reported
@Nachogarza @dougludlow I'm from Canada. Couldn't find any Canadian-friendly streaming sources easily. I tried using a VPN to watch on BBC's iPlayer (required an account). Also tried using a VPN to watch the link you provided from a MX IP, but that didn't work either. :/
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Themis
(@ThemisJ3) reported
@BennettArron @mancunianmedic The problem is it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just like Amazon, Iplayer etc tell me 'if you liked that then you'll like this' so these people find others who share their views: group think kicks in & critical friend is booted out the door as their mindset becomes totally fixed.
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☭ Will ☭
(@WillJSlater) reported
from
Manchester, England
Watching #ExtinctionTheFacts on iPlayer and essentially the problem is Capitalism. Capitalism is demanding more and more from the planet, constant growth on a finite planet.
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shine dream smile✨⁷ᴳ
(@vante_fm) reported
@hobiglitters iplayer blocks vpn you need a good one to get it to work
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JinjaMcMaskity 😷
(@JinjaMcGarrity) reported
It really doesn’t take much for the iplayer app to crash when you try to stream.
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girldude
(@rainismsm) reported
@emflomk oh wait i have mojs iplayer login info on my laptop😼😼
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roz 💙
(@ra_ra_roz) reported
Can someone pause the olympics, I need to leave for work 😩😩😩 guess it’ll have to be BBC iplayer when I get home
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Stephen Dimmock
(@stephen_dimmock) reported
@Ryan23LUFC @Joesanders141 Kinda miss the show just for the nostalgia, the late times weren't a problem at all as you could always just watch it on iPlayer. Steve Claridge was utterly dire though
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Jack Fifield
(@jackfifield) reported
@Timmylatham2 @BBCSport Eurosport interrupt coverage with ads. If you watch on Discovery+ there's no ads, but the quality is far less than the HD you get on iPlayer's live streams and commentary sometimes is non existent, even if they're meant to have it. It's been rubbish compared to BBC's previous
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Sarah 👩🦼♿️
(@Spoonydoc) reported
@DrFrancesRyan Yes, I'm not bothering with that at all. I'm using iplayer and switching between live feeds and full events (not live). Main problem is not knowing the results beforehand. Watching the diving just wasn't the same knowing who won in advance...
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DHB
(@Babbyn9) reported
Trying to watch the women’s road race on #bbc #bbciplayer #iplayer. Terrible coverage! Coverage on the highlights keeps running out of time before the race has ended. Where is it!?😡
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Steve Hargett
(@Chiropterarex) reported
@RashaAlAqeedi Almost certainly not. (Though I like it. But I have to put up with TV being taken over by Football...) I do think that as it is all on iPlayer they could show less on BBC1. If I miss owt love due to Sleep or Work I prefer iPlayer so I don't hear results before watching.
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David McCann
(@TheMcCannic) reported
. @BBCNews @BBCSport iPlayer #Olympics2021 coverage is god-awful to navigate through. Splitting by times but without concise event details for each period? So much downtime when you can see (and hear) the event continuing. WTH?
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NotRob844
(@NRob844) reported
@OGeordieexile Just not feeling doesn’t help I’m watching it through iPlayer and it’s all over the place
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αmαи∂α ṧтᎥƚтʐ
(@AJS71) reported
@CMcArdle @FernRiddell I genuinely couldn’t understand why I could find so little coverage. I know the BBC iPlayer set up is terrible now, but there was literally nothing Olympic related on the home page - I had to go hunting for it.
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Paul Harvey
(@PaulHar666) reported
@bertkreischer, get on the VPN uk servers and watch BBC iplayer to get the Olympics
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🖤⚾️🧡Simon🧡⚾️🖤
(@Gorilafalls) reported
@JBabsSportsChic We don’t have that problem in the U.K. All Olympic coverage is on the BBC. BBC1,BBC2, & BBC iPlayer and all ad free so no commercial breaks.
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justice for bower & juda
(@magkazdouble) reported
@doublelayoutt oh! that’s so sad:( you could use a vpn to watch iplayer maybe ? not sure if it would work or not with iplayer but it might be worth a shot, nbc requires a cable log in so that probably won’t be best, not sure if peacock has replays - it worked with a vpn for me for golden
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IT'S JAY MUN...
(@JAY44195947) reported
@yerkhunt I've worked all weekend and tried watching the iplayer highlights, it's ******* awful... 5 min of sport (only brits) and 85 min of chat/interviews...
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Bm31
(@darkrob5723) reported
@BBCSport Lad has still more to come on and off road. Legend. Just go back from work to watch on IPlayer highlights but whoever edited this needs a kick up the arse as the closing stages were cut. 😡😡
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Rick Tansley
(@RickTansley) reported
BBC don't promote 'live' olympics on the Red Button and then anything I press makes me 'sign in' to iPlayer. "You now need to sign in to your BBC account". #pointless #Olympics2021 #bbcolympics 😡😡😡
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(@knjley) reported
i downloaded bbc iplayer but idk where i can watch bts perform help