Spotify is down and everyone is upset about it
No, it's not your phone. You're still locked in on the WiFi. You aren't losing your mind. According to the Spotify Status account on X, Spotify is down.
Users were posting on Wednesday morning about having issues using Spotify. The company's status account posted that the company was "aware of some issues right now and are checking them out" at 8:45 a.m. ET Wednesday morning.
The account said the app had not been hacked and the company was still working to resolve the outage at 10:39 a.m.
We are aware of the outage and working to resolve it as soon as possible. The reports of this being a security hack are false.
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025
As of 11:30 a.m., the problems have still not been resolved. Down Detector is still reporting thousands of outages on the app.
X users came on the app looking to see if the app was still down. The platform's absence ruined a lot of morning routines.
Spotify is down and the thoughts are getting in pic.twitter.com/iksEgapaJI
— Gracie (@graciem19999) April 16, 2025
who's come on to twitter to see if spotify is down? pic.twitter.com/BFQ0udplqX
— Lukas (@cancelcloud) April 16, 2025
Spotify is down and I'm still at work pic.twitter.com/DQ2vqOZu8t
— 💜 (@thefutxre) April 16, 2025
Everyone running to Twitter/X to see if Spotify is down. pic.twitter.com/Vv78ab3w39
— Fresh ☆ (@AyoFreshhh) April 16, 2025
Waking up to Spotify being down feels like waking up to a note saying your wife has left you and took the kids
— stef (@meritforsadness) April 16, 2025
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