iPlayer Outage Map
The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where iPlayer users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with iPlayer, make sure to submit a report below
The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.
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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 Affected Locations
Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:
| Location | Reports |
|---|---|
| London, England | 5 |
| Tower Hamlets, England | 3 |
| Lyndhurst, England | 2 |
| Chichester, England | 2 |
| Witney, England | 2 |
| Southampton, England | 2 |
| King's Lynn, England | 2 |
| Leicester, England | 2 |
| High Wycombe, England | 2 |
| Swadlincote, England | 1 |
| Thamesmead, England | 1 |
| Stockton-on-Tees, England | 1 |
| Bristol, England | 1 |
| Huntingdon, England | 1 |
| Heathfield, England | 1 |
| City of Westminster, England | 1 |
| York, England | 1 |
| Hampstead, England | 1 |
| Southwark, England | 1 |
| Warminster, England | 1 |
| Ballymena, Northern Ireland | 1 |
| Orpington, England | 1 |
| Grimsby, England | 1 |
| Walsall, England | 1 |
| Rugby, England | 1 |
| Glasgow, Scotland | 1 |
| Chester, England | 1 |
| Royal Tunbridge Wells, England | 1 |
| Bedford, England | 1 |
| Hereford, England | 1 |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Natalya Dell
(@natalyadell) reported
@Doug_Paulley What's a telly? 11 years without a licence this yr. I don't give money to audists (BBC are audist about quality of subtitles on iPlayer and never fixed them if they're broken which they frequently were).
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Kat_the_dog
(@Katthedog4) reported
@BearBertthe I love you 🌈Bert but can’t agree. My hoomum found a way to get iplayer here in SA and she loved previous season of LoD but not this one. Watched half of first episode and switched off in disgust - terrible acting! I got extra tummy rubs though...
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AviosAdventurer 🇬🇧🇿🇦🇹🇷🇰🇭
(@aviosAdventurer) reported
@Aviatoradam Ah yeah the commute novelty will wear off - but nothing a bit of iPlayer on the iPad can’t help. But the after work beers sweeten it for sure haha!
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Patrick McGrath
(@PatrickTMcGrath) reported
Just watched Marr on Iplayer. WTF is Rachel Reeves doing as a senior shadow minister in Keir Starmer's team? Her poor performance is exactly why Labour can't be taken seriously, she was fukcing awful and Marr isn't actually much cop as an interviewer but still nailed her..
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reem ☾ EMERSON DAY
(@dobsjoyner) reported
@sunsetcurvin HELP ITS ON BBC IPLAYER BYE
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Linda CHANDLER
(@Lindachandler66) reported
@CarlBovisNature Waiting for the whole series to be on iplayer so can watch as quickly as possible and hopefully get less confused. About start preparatory work of rewatching end of previous series...
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Tony Padley
(@tonypb29) reported
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Pevensey Bay, England
@Welshracer @chrisckmedia @BBCNews I agree and on the iPlayer the picture quality was better than freeview and freesat/sky
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Sally Holman
(@SallyHolman1) reported
@MaiaDunphy only problem is by watching it ‘live’ you can’t rewind to rewatch bits you a)didn’t quite catch b) need to get close to screen & tilt head c) need to listen to again because they talk so fast I’ll wait until the episode appears on iplayer!
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Tim Dill-Peterson
(@ArthMawr) reported
@ChicagoTafia @S4C If you can go to trouble of setting up a pretend UK ip adress VPN, you canstream it on iPlayer
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Jeremy Lune💙
(@jezzeroo1966) reported
@pintsizedmoo @anti_macassar That was always a problem/pleasure even with the early ones. Especially when watching them a year apart each time as they weren't bundled on iPlayer for reference
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Ejber Özkan
(@ejber1) reported
@DigiturkDestek I’m following for dm, but unless your planning to change the awful UI design or plan, have decent accessibility options and better control timer that disappears after 5 second, I doubt you can help me. Have a look at iplayer to see good design.
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Fred Riley
(@Vanamonde_Dpan) reported
@imyril @hammard_1987 I watched ten minutes of one later episodes of BSG on iPlayer, memories of the terrible ending rushed back in and I hyst had to stop..still bloody unforgivable.
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charlotte
(@callumsballoon) reported
bbc iplayer is my worst enemy
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Jamie Taylor
(@Jamitay1977) reported
@HighDefDiscNews In the UK were lucky enough to get some of these free on the BBC IPlayer streaming service also in 4K. It’s Geo locked but I’m sure a good VPN Could help? 😜
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Charlie Belle
(@chaz763) reported
@BBCSport why is iplayer the worst pile of streaming ******* shitevon earth. Super fast broadband and hardwired and it STILL ******* stutters and buffers. Absolute ****
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