Status report

Spotify

Music streaming and podcasts

Official site

Current status

Spotify looks degraded

DegradedDegraded55% confidence

Some signals suggest a possible issue — may be intermittent or regional.

Partially working — some features may be affected.

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Issue score22 / 100

Low riskHigh risk

Data confidence55%

Score based on: probe results. No official status or user reports data available yet.

Evidence

Each independent source we read, in order of weight.

How we decide

Community reports
neutral
No anonymous reports in the last 24 hours.

Upstream infrastructure

Google Cloud

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Troubleshooting Spotify

Check the official status page (linked above if available).
Try a private/incognito window to rule out cache issues.
Try a different browser or device.
Switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data (or vice versa) to rule out local network issues.
Disable any VPN or proxy temporarily.
Clear your browser cache and cookies, then reload.
Wait a few minutes — brief hiccups often resolve on their own.

Why does Spotify go down?

Spotify outages most often surface as songs failing to load, the queue not advancing, or login getting stuck — not the whole app being unreachable.

Common issues

Audio streaming hiccups in specific regions when the CDN path is degraded.
Login and account-state issues, surfacing as "Cannot reach Spotify servers" even though the app itself loaded.
Playlist sync delays, where edits made in one client take minutes to appear in another.
Podcast catalog and search-index lag separate from music streaming.
Connect (cross-device control) failing while local playback works fine.

What you can try

Restart the app rather than waiting on a stuck stream — the audio session does not always recover gracefully.
If only one device fails, log out of just that device rather than reinstalling.
Check status.spotify.com for component-level breakdown.

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