Spotify is down: the music-streaming service's outage isn't a 'safety hack'

The music-streaming app Spotify is down, leaving tens of millions of music followers within the lurch. The corporate is conscious of a problem and says it’s checking things out. To that finish, we don’t know why it’s down or how lengthy the service will stay unavailable. It appears to be like like each the app and internet shopper aren’t working proper now.

We’re conscious of some points proper now and are checking them out!

— Spotify Standing (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025

At about 10:40AM ET, Spotify updated its X account saying it was engaged on the problem and in addition stated that "the studies of this being a safety hack are false." We haven't seen any such studies but, however we'll control issues to see if they provide any extra particulars on this entrance.

Within the meantime, be at liberty to take a look at the tens of millions of songs on YouTube, or slide right into a rival service like Apple Music or Tidal. Alternatively, you can at all times simply hum to your self or name an previous buddy. We’ll replace this submit after we know extra about what’s occurring or when it’s again.

Replace, April 16, 2025, 11:04AM ET: Added particulars about Spotify claiming this downtime was not attributable to a safety hack.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/spotify-is-down-the-music-streaming-services-outage-is-not-a-security-hack-143552014.html?src=rss

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