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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 (39%)
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Sign in (26%)
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Playback Issues (26%)
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Crashing (8%)
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The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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SawkTong
(@SawkTong) reported
@Kevin_Maguire All these people (idiots) will bemoan it’s loss once they succeeded in killing the BBC - Living abroad I would willing pay the equivalent of the licence fee for legal access to BBC iPlayer. Programme quality knocks all others in to a cocked-hat.
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Matty ❤ Doccy
(@melikeydrwho) reported
Not saying they'll definitely do it and I don't think they will, but I have a terrible feeling toxicity on dwtw would be a lot worse IF the Beeb released Series 13 on IPlayer. I wouldn't be outright against it (6 new episodes all at once!!), my main issue would just be spoilers.
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PLANET ADAM 💫
(@adaminthetardis) reported
@TharriesYT I think it's on the glitch. The way the BBC want to modernise Who, it makes sense to drop it on iPlayer.
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Ezekiel Thorp
(@WhoHelpsOut) reported
@TimelessOwen A certain WhoTuber (take a guess) noticed the iPlayer logo was in the glitch and went deep into a conspiracy theory
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victoria🌞✨
(@thirteenstime) reported
i do have my work one buuuut it means I can’t do **** like stream the L word or go on ao3 lmaoo 💀 probs would get away with watching stuff on bbc iplayer so will probs just watch line of duty again eeeek
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What duck?
(@geeoharee) reported
Did anyone else get kicked out of the iplayer app and have to sign in? #TheFilmCrowd
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Steph. #NHSPay15 #BLM. #Brexshit: Told you.
(@SoftDvil) reported
Asking a friend: is it only me unable to watch Panorama on iPlayer while having no issue getting random drama?
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Obaro Ege
(@ObaroEge) reported
Is it just me or is anyone else having problems with #skytv today? The apps (BBC iPlayer, Netflix, YouTube etc) are all working but just a blank screen on live TV, catch up and recordings.
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Screen Leak
(@ScreenLeak) reported
@curlyjimsam As long as it is marketed correctly and there is a clear motive to why the action has been taken, it’s a good move. From statistics we’ve seen in terms of other iplayer drops, this could work in the BBCs favour.
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HJHeadingFarAway
(@HJMovingFarAway) reported
Cold, waiting on my meat parcel & watching some documentary on iplayer. Gonna be a long day again. Gotta go up Farm Foods tmrw night for work stuff. Gotta think what I need to buy next month for my £25 this week. Got 3 cables sorted, now need some food for my Xmas end Nov
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Moey J - *
(@WeMoveAFC) reported
@Jopar73 @primevideosport Thanks. Do you know a website where i can watch full wimbeldon matches from this past summer? Iplayer is terrible
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🏳️⚧️Adam 🐸👻🔪
(@adamliliths) reported
Sometimes my middle aged neighbour asks me for help with the most basic technology Today I logged into iplayer for him AGAIN BUT WHY WAS SOMETHING ABOUT ****** ONE OF HIS MOST RECENT SEARCHES ON GOOGLE...PLEAS....
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PLANET ADAM 💫
(@adaminthetardis) reported
@iamvrec @XiscoLozano the fact the iplayer logo is playing throughout the glitch is making me think its for the glitch tho. It's certainly a choice but the BBC have been called out of date recently so I can see why
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Firlow (Werewolf Mode!)
(@Firlows) reported
@TimelessOwen There was a "BBC iPlayer" end card in the glitch teaser and people have taken that to mean it'll air on iPlayer, all in one go. Even though the end card also has "Sunday nights" written on it.
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hay !
(@thepIanetskaro) reported
@badwollfs bc one of the glitch teaser coincided with another advert having a bbc iplayer logo on it and they’re reaching a little far
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PLANET ADAM 💫
(@adaminthetardis) reported
@mellis107 @YouTube There’s still some debate on whether or not the glitch was on the previous trailer or this. If it’s on the next one then it’s more than likely it’ll all drop on iPlayer
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𝓥𝓲𝓮𝓾𝔁 𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓮 #FBPPR
(@Mark_P0x0n) reported
@TobyonTV Does anyone have the full interview? I've looked at the whole interview on iPlayer and the whole thing is awful. The discussion about pay freezes and "high wage economy" will be repeated throughout this #WinterOfDiscontent. Manifesto pledges mean nothing, as we all know.
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Mrs McCrimmon
(@mrsjmccrimmon) reported
@TimelessOwen Someone misrepresented a screencap from one of the glitches. The previous ad just before the glitch was for something on iplayer, but the tweeter implied that it was DW that would be.
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Martin White
(@martinwwhite72) reported
@BBCWales hi, do you happen to know when Series 3 Episode 2 of Crash Detectives is available on iPlayer please?
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Stephen Barraclough
(@Ste_Bar) reported
@L90Jake @GMB @campbellclaret I find it hard to believe anyone never watches anything from a BBC tv channel, radio station, iPlayer or the websites. Plus the international news and radio that help keep the UK relevant. it’s still a huge asset for the UK. We’d miss it if it wasn’t there.
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Ben Williams
(@wenbbilliams) reported
Genuinely what's the problem with all of #DoctorWho Series 13 being on iPlayer at once? It's proven to be a success for other shows. I'd prefer it to be weekly but I won't lose sleep over it being available to watch all at once. Also I don't think it'll be happening anyway.
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Fraser Webster
(@fraserwebster12) reported
‘Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution’ on iPlayer was outstanding. I know it’s the trendy thing now to bash the BBC at any opportunity, but they still make a lot of quality programming.
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Tim Bowyer
(@BowyerTim) reported
@carlrydings It was. BBC are missing a trick if they don’t put it back up on iPlayer. Murder island…. Give it next week maybe and see if people think episode 2 picks up on 1. A few fairly easy steps would fix a lot of my issues and have me properly hooked. But we shall see
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CHLOm 🎃
(@_cosmicangst) reported
@okeechoBree Nah the glitch just came after an iplayer ad , just like how the original had bits of blankety blank at the end
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Kathryn Ashworth (No Such Thing As A QuaranTeam)
(@Jenson_Todd) reported
This is the problem with the BBC uploading the really early Top Gears to iPlayer (along with the homophobia and transphobia, and boy is that bad), there's the episodes with Sabine and they're just making me sad.
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Levelling down #FBPE
(@LevellingDown) reported
@DefundBBC Doesn't work for me, keeps stopping. No problems with BBC TV, BBC Radio, BBC web site, BBC Sounds, BBC iPlayer, BBC News, BBC Sport or BBC Weather. Worth paying for something that works when the alternative is useless grifter **** talk. Who's paying for @DefundBBC ?
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Gino🐾🇹🇳
(@_MasterSalah) reported
Does anyone else Xbox sound just not work on Spotify and bbc iplayer but works on YouTube ?
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Ezekiel Thorp
(@WhoHelpsOut) reported
You're all worrying about Series 13 premiering on iPlayer, but actually it's going to be released straight to DVD in an attempt to help HMV out during the decline of physical media (this information comes from employee Raymond Blu, but it cannot be traced back to him)
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK
(@dragraceukbbc) reported
@leahajk Hi Leah, really sorry there was an issue with subtitles. They should now be showing up on BBC iPlayer.
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The Tweeting Cosplayer is @BedfordWhoCharityCon
(@TweetingCosplay) reported
Is iPlayer literally just trending because of the slight possibility that Who will be dropped all at once!? Power of the Whovians I guess... Just to clarify, I think Series 13 all going up at once is a terrible idea and could lead to many an online catastrophe...