ios 13.2 deleting podcasts randomly

i have to say i have been pretty happy back on ios 9.3. it is even liberating to be able to leave my phone at home when i go out and just use the touch for podcasts. i just wish the cpu clock speed were a little faster.

I am having the same problem! I am glad I found this thread because it's happening to me to and it makes me very angry. I am going to have to try and spot the exact moment when it happens because it's not always obvious at the time.

Sometimes I immediately know when the episodes disappear but recently everything seemed to be fine until I went to listen and ... gone.

They way to get the company's attention is to vote with your feet. I got a 5th Gen iPod touch (iPod5,1). CPU is a little slow but, after a 30 USD battery replacement, it works like a champ. Best is that it maxes out at iOS 9.3.5 so, no upgrade issues. I brought this up earlier in the thread. The reason I mention it again here is that what I have noticed is that I have begun to leave my iPhone at home when I go out now. That is, unless I know I need to have my phone, either for maps or for the phone itself, I don't bring it. The iPod itself I leave in airplane mode and only sync by USB. I am back living in some mix of the 1990s, when we all used to walk around without any chain to the Internet or even a phone, and the 2000s, when iPods worked mostly like they were supposed to. It is wonderful. I expect it also terrifies Apple that users might opt for this experience over being engagement/data exhaust fumes.

Until I found this thread I thought it was something to do with having two iPhones, as it started just after I got a second one from work. Must just have been coincidence with the timing of the release. I’ve downloaded the support app and will be reporting it the next time it happens. Eventually they’ll have to take notice of us!

Apple will put me on a blacklist soon, as I’m now calling them every time the podcasts disappear! We’ve tried various things, nothing has worked, and I’m now dealing with the senior support team. A ticket has been raised with the engineers. I will report back . . .

This is BS. I kept my iPhone to 13.1.3 so I can keep using the podcast. I woke up this morning and found out my iPhone has been updated to 13.5.1 eventhough I turned off automatic updates. Pretty ****** right now since I can't downgrade to 13.1.3 again.

All they need to do is reverse whatever they did in 13.2. It's working fine on 13.1.

I also found another issue. I downloaded my podcast to my itunes before synching them to my iPhone. Some of the recently downloaded & synched podcast episodes are asking for streaming instead to play properly. Urrghhh. This kind of defeat the purpose me downloading & synching the podcast.

Thanks, so can you please elaborate on what exactly happens? when you sync the podcasts through itunes, they disappear and then reappear? Do they all reappear or partially reappear? How long after they are gone do they come back?

I’d forgotten that comment. But no, didn’t work :-( The phone thought it still had the files somewhere, I could tell by the available storage space. Turned it off and on again, and literally watched the used space recalc slowly downwards.

Giftenblue - can I listen to a book at 1.5 speed? And does iTunes know they’re played?Otherwise I’ll just live with my version of the workaround.

It happened again, but not to all of the episodes of the podcast show I synced, only a seemingly random subset (I only have one show synced via PC).

I'll be staying on 13.1.3 for awhile. Fix this Apple Urrrgggghhh