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Roku players are a series of digital video & media players manufactured by Roku, Inc. Roku partners provide over-the-top content in the form of channels used to stream TV and movies.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Roku reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Roku users through our website.

  • 28% Buffering (28%)
  • 28% Crashing (28%)
  • 23% Sign in (23%)
  • 17% Playback Issues (17%)
  • 4% Video Quality (4%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Roku outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Eau Claire Sign in 12 hours ago
Denver Playback Issues 22 hours ago
Walnut Creek Crashing 5 days ago
Albert Lea Playback Issues 5 days ago
Pittsburgh Playback Issues 5 days ago
Pittsburgh Crashing 5 days ago
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Roku Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • MikeyBoom32
    Brett Bear (@MikeyBoom32) reported

    @Roku Roku asking for a private message is ridiculous. Roku knows exactly what the problems are as it has been widely reported and complaints are numerous. Almost no Roku owner has not been touched by the new update. Slow apps, apps that will not open, unable to download new apps.

  • JoeKimray
    Joe Kimray (@JoeKimray) reported

    Wow - this new @Roku Home Screen update they forced on everyone is one of the worst technology “upgrades” ever. Lost the ability to customize the Home Screen - and they added a lot of apps no one wants, that you can’t remove. Horrible decision - the customer is always last…

  • MattSmithFOX13
    Matthew Smith (@MattSmithFOX13) reported

    @KirkYuhnke @MatthewKeysLive @Roku Our dumb TV is 10+ years old — biggest issue we’ve ever had: a volume button is a little touchy. We’ve swapped out smart tech multiple times, always on sale. Likely saved us a crazy amount of $$$ in a decade-plus.

  • JLGlazer
    Jennifer Glazer (@JLGlazer) reported

    @Roku hello. I need help repairing a remote with my Roku. I have followed instructions online, but it’s not working.

  • TVForSeniors
    The TV Answer Man: Making Television Easy Again. (@TVForSeniors) reported

    @MatthewKeysLive @Roku Most TVs today are purposely not built to last. The industry decided long ago to stress quantity over quality.

  • Sarah_young5314
    Sarah Young (@Sarah_young5314) reported

    @Roku, I’m not happy. We have a ONN Roku TV. We have an antenna. Until today, I could watch local channels. Now I can’t. I followed all the steps to fix this. Every one. Then I hoped onto chat and had to talk to two different reps, neither of which fixed the issue. One said (1)

  • Theresa99778608
    Theresa (@Theresa99778608) reported

    @red_chem_lite @Roku You need a zapper for when they touch it, they will learn which. Our friends have two boxers that were like this and within the week they were broken.

  • allherdanger
    court (@allherdanger) reported

    Idk wtf Roku did but every time I'm paused too long now it doesn't go to the screensaver I have set up, it goes to a Roku thing and then I can't get out of that screen without going to the home screen first?? FIX IT @Roku and don't you dare blame me, I checked my settings

  • Mare_Loch
    Mare Loch (@Mare_Loch) reported

    @Roku Hey! Fix your closed captioning! Doesn’t even work on your own commercial channels. You know, the channels that show commercials every two minutes? Do you hate the hearing impaired or what?

  • iii_lonell
    Lonell Fletcher III (@iii_lonell) reported

    @Roku fix your live tv displays. It shouldn’t be so hard to list what’s being shown when it’s supposed to be in constant rotation. I’m sick of seeing NO DATA AVAILABLE

  • alexsears97
    alex (@alexsears97) reported

    @Roku This new update is TERRIBLE. Half of my apps are gone from my Home Screen and it's such a pain to find them again. Fire whoever thought of this

  • norcal06warrior
    Eff-the-left (@norcal06warrior) reported

    @Roku All other steaming apps work fine, it's only happening with Netflix

  • lauscho1
    Travis Lausch (@lauscho1) reported

    @RaceCanada_ca @TSN_Sports @Roku (realistically, I'm guessing there was some kind of error and one that was actually expertly quickly fixed... but still, that damn near made my heart stop)

  • ultramantis7
    Missouri_Gamer (@ultramantis7) reported

    @Roku FoxOne on the Roku Channel does not work; Fox apparently cannot stream the games to Roku. It isn't Roku's fault, but why am I paying $20 a month?

  • acme1265packers
    Acme Pack (@acme1265packers) reported

    @Roku The problem is that Roku is getting a kickback for recommending shows that no one watches, plus we already know what they are going to watch.

  • 80sBoxing
    1980s Boxing (@80sBoxing) reported

    @Roku It's awful. More clutter I do not need and I need to click down just to get to all of my apps. Simple and streamlined is always better. Why are you trying to fix things that aren't broken?

  • djmikebryant
    Mike Bryant (@djmikebryant) reported

    @Roku please bring back the other Home Screen. This new one is awful. Thanks

  • allherdanger
    court (@allherdanger) reported

    @Roku I did a system restart this evening and it seems to have fixed the problem! 🫶🏻

  • MindyNDuncan
    SaltyNurse (@MindyNDuncan) reported

    @Roku your sure have some **** products! Can't fast forward without the show restarting. Can't get quality sound from the other roku I have. What gives!

  • TucsonBlonde
    TucsonBlonde 🇺🇸💙🌊 (@TucsonBlonde) reported

    @Roku So about that redesign…how about you stop repopulating my Quick Access section with crap I don’t want/have after I’ve removed everything I don’t want or use? You’ve done it THREE TIMES NOW, and I don’t appreciate having my time wasted as I go back in and delete everything but my YouTube App, which is all that I use on this TV! section with yet more channels I have never used, and shoved YouTube back to the end, again. later. So how do I fix this PERMANENTLY? You can put whatever you want to after the YouTube app, but It’s MY interface, you give us the option to customize it, and while it’s not life ending to have to click several times to get to what took 2 clicks before, it’s very aggravating and I don’t appreciate the level of arrogance that a company displays when they undo the changes I made to shove stuff I don’t want down my throat. I’d appreciate a response, this is ludicrous. So please, help

  • PrismaticOwl
    Isabella Valentine (@PrismaticOwl) reported

    I generally just let the @Roku screensavers scroll while I do other stuff, but I think it got an update recently because the Roku City screensaver just flat does not work anymore. It's a black screen. Back button doesn't work. Gotta use the Home button to return to the menu.

  • Morticia121212
    Morticia (@Morticia121212) reported

    @tacooghost @Roku Well, they still never fixed it. It's a problem with the Roku TV version, I'm pretty sure. I went & got the free trial at Amazon video & it is on there! Yay!

  • Jakewk
    Jake K (@Jakewk) reported

    Ok @Roku I’m trying to watch Fracture on my Roku TV Channel and you have a perverse glitch that when I try to rewind for a short time, it sends me back to the first few minutes of the movie and when I try to get back to the spot, it makes me watch all the ads again. WTAF.

  • Starko2341
    Starko (@Starko2341) reported

    @ojkoj @Roku *Exact* same problem with all my HDMI inputs, I have three consoles and it started after the recent update. I thought my TV was going bad. Someone suggested going to the input from the Nav menu rather than the button on the home screen. I will try that tonight.

  • Squirdlok
    Unapologetic Deplorable (@Squirdlok) reported

    @RepTheDMV @livenowfox Good eye. I am also terribly upset by the piss-poor quality of the breaks on the ROKU Channel. Chopped all to Hell! Does @Roku let AI run it's board? High-School rookies could do a better job!

  • GojiraOmega
    Kaiju Cowboy (@GojiraOmega) reported

    @Roku @RokuSupport This was not worth the awful updates you made to this tech. I can't even organize my inputs anymore

  • mrhappybw
    Bryan Wayne (@mrhappybw) reported

    @BrianKemm @Roku Mine is the hdmi ports are corrupted and it is for sure on them as I tried different cable even used a different TV and no issue. If I unplug cables and do an audio/visual reset it will “fix” it for a day then it comes back. It is listed as known issue since update.

  • Tommy2legs
    Lt. Broccoli - Parody 🥦 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (@Tommy2legs) reported

    @Roku fix everything about the new OS! I mean why is the only option on quick access to remove something!? Why can't they be moved? What the heck!?

  • ghfrost3
    George H Frost III (@ghfrost3) reported

    So I pay for a subscription on @Roku payment goes through they get the money. Subscription does not work. @Roku is good at taking the money but… that’s where their part ends taking the $$. **** doesn’t work and zero real support. You ******* suck and I’m going back to cable.

  • ashubert
    A Shubert (@ashubert) reported

    @roku @YouTube problem with private listening on iPhone app. If you get a call, or switch to IG for a minute, anything that requires sound, YouTube will pause and then when you close whatever that app is YouTube resumes but automatically restarts the video from the beginning.