

The issue started the same day as Juice Wrld's new posthumous album release.


Western Europe particularly experiences the widespread outage since it is where most people were trying to use Spotify. The issue appeared to be a widespread outage since a huge surge in the number of people was having the same problems. However, Safari wasn't having the issue other music streaming service also works on different platforms, including the Android version of the app. Pre-loaded iOS apps such as Apple Music and the App Store are also affected.

Other popular apps, including Facebook itself, Tinder, TikTok, Grab, Viber, and Paymaya, were all reported having the same issue. "We are aware and investigating an increase in errors on the iOS SDK, which is causing some apps to crash," said a member of the Facebook team. Facebook confirmed that the issue on its status page was intended for developers. The companies warned the users that uninstalling and reinstalling won't fix the problem. Other apps such as Hinge, Twitter, Strava, Snapchat, as well as The New Times app, were also affected by the current issue. We're currently investigating, and we'll keep you posted here!" said Spotify's Status account. 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).There is an ongoing issue, which caused by the problems of Facebook's developer tools-some apps are also dealing with the same issues. 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.
