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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 (47%)
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Sign in (25%)
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Playback Issues (22%)
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Crashing (6%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent iPlayer outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 City of Westminster |
Crashing | |
| Rochdale |
Buffering | |
| Swadlincote |
Buffering | |
| Kensington |
Sign in | |
| Birmingham |
Buffering | |
| Hackney |
Sign in |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Tills
(@StayBeautifulTN) reported
I don’t know when five bedrooms season 2 came on IPlayer but holy **** I’m so happy, I have felt nothing for weeks but this show has broken through
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Molly1912
(@Molly19121) reported
@trudi_pie @victoriaarbiter Ours did too! The trouble is on iPlayer, you have no way of fast forwarding to the end - unless someone knows otherwise.
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trungcovidvaccinedauhotelsaddnewsecuredaunecomvoce
(@trungcovidvacc1) reported
How do I sign in to BBC iPlayer on my TV? | iPlayer help More results
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ange garrod 🕷️ #RejoinEU #JohnsonOUT 🇺🇦
(@angegarrod) reported
You try to look at something on @iplayer on telly & it's asking me to sign in & add a code, when I'm already signed in? Add code & go to search and oh look, it's forgotten me again...no items found. It doesn't do this on the lappy. Endless circle of doom...sod it, off outside.
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Oliver Davey
(@YanksinBristol) reported
@Westengland No, is that available on iPlayer? If not, I work at a university so may have access to it in other ways.
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Award VPN
(@AwardVPN) reported
@drrllchristie2 If you get a second could u try with iPlayer etc, looks like Coventry and London servers are now working again on it
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Kay Marie #TeamBen
(@ColdMotherWall) reported
Because I'm a level 7 susceptible, when the announcer lady said "Watch All Episodes of Silent Witness on iplayer now" that's exactly what I'm doing. Gosh we all had terrible hair in the 90s, didn't we?
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Dave Challis
(@ChallisDave) reported
@PaulEmbery Recently started to watch Hope Street on iPlayer, superficially looking like Heartbeat from the old days. It can’t help moralising, straining the script into diversity, and I’m sure Heartbeat would seem very un-PC (if you pardon the pun) in this century.
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trungcovidvaccinedauhotelsaddnewsecuredaunecomvoce
(@trungcovidvacc1) reported
Why you need to register and sign in for BBC iPlayer - Pocket-lint More results
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RaviRavioli
(@ravi__ravioli) reported
@vomitbo @CannedTato I use windscribe (free version) and just watch it on low quality. Then it's 10GB with ~200MB an episode. Data is refilled every month. I just have to remember to tür it on before I visit iplayer otherwise it knows ur not British.
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Andy Monks 🛫🛬
(@AndythePandy_) reported
Does anyone that uses @surfshark have issues with getting BBC iPlayer to work?
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Skelly46
(@skelly46) reported
@BBCiPlayer what is the point in having iplayer if you don’t even work in other countries? **** app
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SimplySimon
(@SimplySimon808) reported
@BBCiPlayerForum when it comes to #MOTD, how can your iPlayer quality be so bloody poor? It's like watching it in #Minecraft
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Badger Growler
(@DeanCoates) reported
@CharlieBonobo @lfnand Just got homw from work so ill be sticking that on in a bit, Just finished Inside No9 on iplayer, twisted little series that
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SimplySimon
(@SimplySimon808) reported
@BBCiPlayerForum when it comes to MOTD, how can your iPlayer quality be so bloody poor?!
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Cian Conroy
(@CianDaAddick190) reported
Okay just seen that all the episodes are out on Iplayer, as was the same with Normal People. I get it. But it just annoys me. I like the wait. Yes, binge watching is nice, but I miss the programming of old. It makes every episode be seen as one work, not just one in a collage.
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Alexandra Tyler
(@Alexandra_ST04) reported
iPlayer is currently refusing to work on my PC and maybe that's a good thing because *exam prep* but this really is a bad time for this to happen 😫
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Steven the European #FBPE
(@EuropeanSteven) reported
@BrianStrick69 @mrjamesob @expressvpn You can get services (usually the most expensive ones) with router Integration. That way you can connect your entire home to the uk i.e. iPlayer, bbc sounds, c4, etc. will work on all connected devices
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JOE 🇺🇸
(@FLAJOEB1) reported
@Media_Hint Are you going to fix BBC Iplayer ? - right now it’s false advertising
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BiggestNizzy
(@BiggestNizzy) reported
@anon_opin Why not stick them all on Iplayer, use your TV licence as a login and let people in other countries "subscribe" generate some income and spend it on new stuff?
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Sam Lowry #FBPE 💙
(@SamTLowry) reported
@LozzaFox I was at work when it was on and couldn't be arsed to watch it on Iplayer.
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MB & MK's Medboy
(@medboyUK) reported
@sinsearchcom @MsScarlettBlack The problem with the law makers is they don't know how the internet "actually" works, block away, most of us use a VPN anyway. I was using a reverse VPN for years so I could watch BBC iPlayer abroad by having my own VPN server set up, they thought I was a home!
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Fiona 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇦
(@fiona_skywalker) reported
@LeonneHaaijman Yeah I had a look too, suggests that it was too far gone by the time they caught it, to pinpoint exactly what happened. There's a doc on iplayer which says they evacuated then let people back in, thinking it was an alarm error. They searched an outbuilding first.
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Eddie
(@EddTheDick) reported
@16bitbench @anon_opin That’s why I never have a problem pirating anything that comes from the bbc, if I actually want to watch it and it’s not on iplayer
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David Curtis
(@DaveCFilmGeek) reported
The worst thing in the world is when watching a film on BBC iPlayer and it minimises the window to tell you to watch The Great British Menu just as Tamsin Grieg's name comes up on the credits
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Isaac Lowe
(@outofhisdepth) reported
@tom98784 @AtPeterHayes @GrassValleyLive I still don't understand *why* the iPlayer compression is so awful. I know the Grass Valley encoders used for digital TV are shockingly expensive, but I would have thought iPlayer could do better with longer buffers and modern software-based transrating.
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MONK
(@PAULMONK) reported
@SamsungUK @BBCiPlayer Any reason my Samsung TV needs me to login to the iPlayer each time all of a sudden?
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Binsey
(@binseyyyy) reported
@Charpercy84 I’ve got it. It’s dreadful, don’t bother. Tv sound and picture quality is excellent but all the live tv is delayed by 30 seconds, you can’t record anything… it goes onto a “playlist” and then diverts you to iPlayer/Netflix/ITV hub etc. stick with sky Q 🤌🏻
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John Pennington💙
(@diygolf) reported
Watched the NW200 on iPlayer today 👍what’s with the tyre issues 5 laps of that track roughly = 1 lap of TT 🤔
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MB & MK's Medboy
(@medboyUK) reported
@sinsearchcom @MsScarlettBlack The problem with the law makers is they don't know how the internet "actually" works, block away, most of us use a VPN anyway, either in or outbound. I was using a my own VPN for years before it became "a thing" so I could watch BBC iPlayer abroad by having my own VPN server!