Updated at 3:57 p.m. CT: Spotify has confirmed the outage is resolved. The @SpotifyStatus account on X shared an update on Tuesday afternoon, stating that the service is all clear and thanking users for their patience. The company didn’t explain what caused the outage, but directed users still experiencing issues to contact community support through email.
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Spotify is down, and the company has confirmed it’s working on the problem — though it hasn’t said much beyond that.
According to the Spotify Status account on X, the music streaming service acknowledged user complaints about an app outage on Tuesday and said it was looking into the issue. Users reaching out to Spotify on X report login issues, long loading times, and black screens.
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Per DownDetector (which is owned by Mashable parent company Ziff Davis), Spotify outage reports began climbing around 12 p.m. CT before peaking roughly half an hour later at 12:35 p.m. CT.
No timetable has been given for when the app will be fully back up. We’ll update this story as more information becomes available.
The timing for Spotify isn’t ideal, as the company launched a new “Party of the Year(s)” feature on Tuesday morning. The wrap-up feature is part of the Spotify 20-year anniversary celebrations, and it presents users with their first-ever Spotify listen and other nostalgic highlights from their listening history.
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