Is Spotify down, not working or undergoing an outage today in 2023? [Cont. updated]

Spotify occasionally experiences temporary problems and outages that leave millions without access to their favorite music and podcasts whenever the platform is down and not working.

Although not our wish, it still remains highly likely this will be true in 2023. Granted, we will be monitoring the outage status of Spotify and update this article any time the service is down or not working throughout the year.

Update 12 [September 15; 16:40]: Lack of fresh reports indicate that the search functionality is working again.

Update 11 [September 14; 17:21]: It seems that the search functionality is not working on the app (1,2,3).

Update 10 [September 13; 17:19]: Albums and playlists covers not loading or showing for several in Spotify app.

Update 9 [September 8; 05:54]: New service outage reported (1,2,3).

a. [18:58]: Recent outage resolved.

Update 8 [August 7; 03:14]: Service reportedly (1, 2, 3) down or not working for some.

a. [18:38]: Recent outage has been resolved.

Update 7 [June 8; 09:26]: Service currently down or not working for some (1, 2, 3).

a. [16:00] Spotify is working correctly again.

Update 6 [May 3; 15:50]: Spotify is currently down for certain users.

a. [18:50] Outage has been resolved.

Update 5 [April 28; 13:29]: The recent Spotify outage has now been resolved.

Update 4 [April 27; 17:43]: New service outage reported in Downdetector.

Update 3 [April 20; 16:40]: The lack of fresh reports suggests that the issue has been resolved.

Update 2 [April 19; 17:35]: Users report a new service outage (1, 2, 3).

a. [18:56]: According to fresh reports (1,2,3), the popular Streaming service is still suffering from outage despite the opposite claim by the company.

Update 1 [January 14; 07:47]: Spotify is currently down and not working (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

a. [12:30]: The lack of fresh reports indicates that the issue has been resolved.

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