BBC Sounds is not loading on iPhone Air running iOS 26

Lizw433 wrote:

I have just updated my iPhone 16 to IoS 26 and BBC Sounds no longer works I think there may be something in the new IoS that BBC sounds thinks is a VPN. I have already manually turned off my VPN through Settings, deleted and reinstalled the BBC Sounds and I have turned off and restarted my phone. It still won’t work. Please could Apple look into this.

You are advised to remove the VPN profile in Settings, General, VPN & Device Mgmt, turning off does not always work.

You are further advised by most helpers on here to never reinstall it, it causes too many problems particularly on iOs26

Check with the apps support team. I recall the app has a similar issue last year when iOS 18 was released. An update to the app fixed the issue.

I have just updated my iPhone 16 to IoS 26 and BBC Sounds no longer works I think there may be something in the new IoS that BBC sounds thinks is a VPN. I have already manually turned off my VPN through Settings, deleted and reinstalled the BBC Sounds and I have turned off and restarted my phone. It still won’t work. Please could Apple look into this.

Usernameistaken99 wrote:

I have the same issue. It is infuriating. Who can I get to help???

first set the thread sequence to Oldest instead of Rank, which makes threads unnavigable. (End of first post)

Then look at the posts before yours

it works on all our ios26 devices in UK, may be a hardware compatibility.

Me too very frustrating

I have the same issue. It is infuriating. Who can I get to help???