Spotify incident

Downtime August 24, 2026: Playback for audiobooks not working properly

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Spotify experienced a critical incident on August 24, 2026 affecting Service, lasting 1h 58m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 24, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 24, 2026, 06:42 PM UTC
Duration
1h 58m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 24, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC

Affected components

Service

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 24, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC

    Hey folks, We're getting some reports mentioning that the playback for audiobooks is not working properly at the moment. The relevant teams are already aware of the situation and working on a fix. Any relevant updates will be posted here. Stay tuned.

  2. resolved Aug 24, 2026, 06:42 PM UTC

    Status changed to: Fixed