Apple Podcasts Not updating for some users

The feed URL leads to a feed with minor problems - your 'itunes:explicit' tags should read 'no' or 'clean', not 'false'. I'm surposed that there is no complaint about the green tick characters - ✅ - which I would have thought weren't acceptable in XML but in fact they don't seem to be a problem.

Podcasts Connect is saying the feed is 'prepared for submission', meaning it's OK. However you do have an Apple Podcasts page - this would prevent further validation of the feed, so that must be running off a different feed. I notice it hasn't been updated for months whereas there are a lot of later episodes in the feed you link to.

Your best bet would be to locate the feed in use by Apple Podcasts and update that with the new episodes, or use the procedure to transfer the Store to using the feed you linked to (see http://wilmut.uk/move). If you have a Mac or Windows running iTunes rather than Apple Podcasts, go to the page you link to above and then to iTunes. Subscribe, control- or right-click on the name of the podcast in the subscription list, and choose 'Copy Podcast URL' or equivalent. This doesn't work in Apple Podcasts which is what I'm using so I can't do it.

However I notice that when subscribing the list of episodes matches those in the feed you link to, which suggests it is the same feed. The error message you illustrate suggests it's another validator, not Apple, and all this suggests that you can ignore it. The iTunes Store appears not to be updating, so try refreshing the feed from your Podcasts Connect page. (You won't be able to validate the feed there if it's already been submitted.)

This is normal. Subscribers read the feed directly and so see a new episode pretty well immediately. The Store caches the feeds and visits them in some sort of rotation. How long it takes for a new episode to appear depends on where you are in thecycle, but 1-2 days is quite usual. As the episode appears when subscribing it should appear in the Store in the next day or two.

Hi Roger,

here's the link:

https://feed.pod.co/the-e-commerce-performance-marketing-show

https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-e-commerce-performance-marketing-show/id1505505864

Thank you for your help :)

The latest episode was posted less than 24 hours ago: it's qjuite normal for an episode to taker anything up to two days to appear, occasionally more. The Podcasts app/iTunes Store caches the feeds (there are many thousands) and visits them in some sort of rotation to check for updates. How long it takes for an episode to appear depends on where you are in the cycle. The episode does appear when subscribing (subscribers read the feed directly and the Store is not involved) so it should appear within a day or so.

I hope this works... only my subscribers saw new episode today and it was published around 4AM I didn’t notice the issue until 4PM *Facepalm*

RSS Feed:

https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1603321.rss Apple feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grown-minded/id1548198710

If the episode 'Jason Mulhall | The Power of Trial and Error & Perseverance' is the one you are referring to, this is visible in the iTuns Store/Podcasts page and in the app both when browsing and subscribing. It's evidently very recent: it'ds quite common for new episodes not to show up in the Store/Browse for up to two days or so, though they wojld appear quickly for subscribers (who read the feed directly): the Store caches the feeds and visits them in some sort of rotation.

If there is another episode which is not showing, or you have another query about this:

1. Please start a new thread. Tacking onto an old one complicates matters and may even result in your not being noticed.
2. Post the URL of your feed. It's possible to find out very little without being able to examine the feed, and in Catalina it can't be detected from the app.

I see that my latest episode is on the apple podcasts page on my mac, but not on the apple podcasts app on my phone. It was there earlier today.

https://noordniarynerd.libsyn.com/rss

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-ordinary-nerd/id1161474575

As with my answer to Lindsay Lyman, your episode was posted only 15 hours ago so there's nothing unusual.

Hi Rob,

Here is my RSS feed. I still can't see my podcast in the podcast store and it's been over 48 hours.

My podcast is called Happy Birthday Twice and the episode I am waiting for is called "Taylor Swift's Folklore (with Olga and Izzy)

"

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/happy-birthday-twice/id1503254295

Thanks

Flora

The below three haven’t had shows show up since they posted last week

https://www.spreaker.com/show/4238226/episodes/feed

https://www.spreaker.com/show/4122385/episodes/feed

https://www.spreaker.com/show/3357296/episodes/feed

This means that either the URL you submitted had an error in it, or that it was correct but there is no file at that address. So you need to check the URL - enter it into a browser and see what happens. I'd be happy to check it for you but I'm not going to laboriously type out the URL: from your image (which doesn't look complete anyway) so you would need to post the feed URL - something you should always do when you have a query. Incidentally it's preferable to start a new thread when you have a problem rather than tacking onto an old one - you stand a better chance of being noticed.

https://feed.podbean.com/watchersproductions/feed.xml

not updated since 11am 22/12/2020!!!!!!