BBC iPlayer

British Broadcasting Corporation

About this app

Enjoy BBC iPlayer in the palm of your hand, from live news coverage, music and big sporting events to great comedies, gripping documentaries and nail-biting dramas.

KEY FEATURES:

WATCH ON DEMAND
Discover the latest TV series including The Traitors, Race Across the World and Gladiators.

LIVE TV
Pause, restart and rewind live channels part way through so that you don’t miss a thing.

OFFLINE VIEWING
Download shows to your device so that you can watch on the go.

PARENTAL CONTROLS
Create a child profile for a more age appropriate experience with all their favourite shows from CBBC, CBeebies and more!

MORE FEATURES TO ENJOY:

- Build a watchlist of your favourite shows.
- Sign in or create an account so that you can start watching on one device and resume watching on another.
- Receive recommendations of shows we think you might enjoy.
- Stream programmes to your TV using Google Chromecast; please note this requires a supported device and compatible supported device connected to your TV


To give you the best experience, this app tracks what you’ve watched on BBC iPlayer and how long you’ve watched programmes for. You can turn this off by logging into your BBC account and turning off “Allow Personalisation”. This app also tracks when you add something to My Programmes. You can remove programmes by tapping Remove. In addition, the BBC iPlayer app uses standard Android app permissions that are defined by the Google Android platform. The device uses performance cookies for internal purposes to help us improve the app. You can choose to opt out of this at any time from the in-app Settings menu. For more information about this, privacy, cookies and Android app permissions, visit the BBC iPlayer Apps Privacy notice at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/app_privacy. To read the BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy

You can “opt out” from our data processor’s tracking by filling the “Forget My Device” form in this link https://www.appsflyer.com/optout

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/terms.

The app was developed by Media AT (BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). Full details of Media AT are available on the Companies House website at: http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07100235

Ratings and reviews

Used with Chrome cast, one of the weaker streamers, sometimes only stays connected for a couple of minutes as the programme plays, but on the phone it shows as 55 minutes remaining, and trying to get it to connect so that it recognises that it has played is very hit and miss. Also constantly going to series 1 of something when you're watching a later series, or jumps several eps to show you a 'continue watching' from later in the series. All happens far less on other connected stream services.

Making itself redundant. BBC are showing fewer and fewer shows for shorter amounts of time. I only got iPlayer to watch QI and WILTY and there are no more than 3 episodes of each at any time, so what's the point? Unless they designate as show as "binge worthy" you're out of luck. Since you can't buy series you have to depend on the poor taste of some BBC employee as to what you can watch and there's no way to catch up on anything you miss, the app is really just taking up space on devices.

Since the update the app crashes constantly. When I'm watching a programme it freezes every ten minutes or so then a message saying "something has gone wrong." I have to keep restarting my phone and the programme doesn't go back to where I was. Also when I first access the app I get "no network" or "not available." This is extremely frustrating and needs to be fixed. I don't have problems with other streaming apps.

What’s new

We’ve been making improvements and fixing bugs so you can continue to find and watch your favourite shows.