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Is Spotify down? How to check if the app is offline

March 18, 2022

SPOTIFY users were experiencing issues with the streaming service’s website and app on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

DownDetector is known as an online outage tracker, and many users flocked to the website to report their issues with the platform.

Why is Spotify down?

Reports started coming in around 9am EST on March 9, 2022, that the site was having issues.

75 percent of the reports coming in were related to the app, meanwhile, 16 percent of users reported an issue with the website.

Only 10 percent of Spotify users claimed that their audio streaming wasn’t working.

Folks took to Twitter to see if others were having the same issue with the music streaming app.

“Is Spotify down why is my song stopping?” one person posted.

“@Spotify keeps crashing on me since they added the real time lyrics feature,” another claimed, referring to the new real-time lyrics feature.

Companies have been making it easier for users to check on the status of their sites.

A few places Spotify users can check if the site is down include:

Spotify had four outages in September. The app had reported issues in October as well.

In September 2021, Spotify was down on:

In November 2021, Spotify was down on:

On Spotify’s “Spotify Cares” Twitter page, they have posted a video that includes some tips users can try to get the service back up and running.

To troubleshoot the app, the company suggests that users:

If the app is still not working users can then check support.spotify.com

On Monday, November 1, Instagram was reported to have been down.

However, on Monday, October 4, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were down for nearly six hours.

Downdetector had been getting reports of multiple apps crashing, some being fixed, some still not working.

The issue was resolved by the end of the day.

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