
UPDATE: The Verge is reporting that other apps are affected too, including TikTok and Tinder, and that it might be a Facebook SDK problem. We’re currently investigating, and we’ll keep you posted here! This news has spread throughout Twitter and Spotify itself has responded. Spotify’s iOS apps seem to be having problems at the minute, with the service crashing on all the iOS devices we tested it on it. It seems that the music streaming service isn’t currently working for some users, with its iOS apps currently completely unresponsive. The company has been in the headlines recently because of a backlash over its exclusive $200 million-plus deal to distribute Joe Rogan’s popular podcast, which has included COVID misinformation and instances of Rogan using the N-word (episodes that Spotify has since removed).UPDATE: It seems that the issue has been fixed and we can now get Spotify working again on our iOS devices. As of the end of 2021, the company reported 406 million total monthly active users (which includes 180 million paying subscribers). Spotify is the industry’s biggest music and audio streaming service.

Spotify acknowledged that many customers were “having problems logging in and reaching customer support.”Ĭlick here to subscribe to Variety’s free Strictly Business newsletter covering media earnings, financial and investment news and more.Īlso Tuesday, Discord, the chat, voice and video-communications service, reported an issue that caused message failures for several hours. A little more than an hour later, the company indicated that the technical problems had been resolved, with Spotify Status tweeting, “Everything’s looking much better now! Give a shout if you still need help.” Thanks for your reports!” the Spotify Status account on Twitter posted at 1:22 p.m. “Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it.
