'We’re aware of some issues right now' — live updates as Spotify confirms outage, with thousands of users reporting that they can't access the music streaming service

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Everybody panic! Spotify is currently experiencing issues, with thousands of reports that the app is not working.

The music streaming service has confirmed that "We’re aware of some issues right now with the app and are checking them out!", but there's no word yet on how widespread the problem is, or how long it might last.

This is a developing story…

12 May 2026 at 17:42

Okay, so what do we know? Well, outage reports started growing on Down Detector just under an hour ago.

Hi everyone. I'm going to dig into what's going on with Spotify, so stay tuned for updates as I get them.

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