IOS 14.6 update has messed up Apple Podcast

Try swiping to the right. A new purple icon is displayed. I have no clue what it is supposed to mean, but when i click on it the episode disappears.

This update is extremely disappointing for podcasts. A good podcast app does not need to be complicated.

My Library/Latest Episodes no longer syncs across my devices.

The pic below shows the Podcasts app settings at iPhone Settings>Podcasts (left frame), the Station settings (middle) and the Show settings (right) in the image below. Check the blue arrows which cause Shows to be updated automatically and permit you to limit new episodes. Also note the blue circles that hide played episodes and remove played downloads.

Apple Discussions is a user-to-use your knowledge sharing forum and, as you can see, we are all sharing some of the pain with the Podcasts app upgrade. The best bet is for all to submit problems and suggestions to Apple at Apple Feedback, https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-podcasts/

The iOS 14.5 & 14.6 Apple Podcasts app upgrades are still bug-ridden. I’m sorry podcast users have had to serve as guinea pigs for such a flawed versions, it doesn’t make sense to invest time trying to answer questions about such an unpredictable piece of software.

On the Apple Podcasts Server side new episodes for some Shows are listed three days after they are available on TuneIn, Stitcher, SoundCloud, etc.

On the Apple Podcasts app side:

• the app gets stuck in loading mode with some users when first opened,

• Episodes sometimes mark themselves as played after just a few seconds,

• some Shows do not list the most recent unplayed episodes even when the Show settings are chosen to do so.

• Station lists sometimes do not list unplayed episodes available in Show lists, even though the Station settings do not limit episodes,

• some episodes download once in Show lists, others simply do not, even the toggle for Automatic Downloads in Show settings is On,

• the app causes a heating problem and excessive battery draining, particularly when select other apps are open in the background or foreground,

• a change in key default settings in the iOS 14.5 Podcasts app upgrade caused numerous unwanted automatic downloads in Shows with tens or hundreds of episodes.

Hopefully, some heads have rolled for those responsible, clearer thinking people have replaced them and the bugs will be straightened out soon. Apple is an excellent company which has made this experience frustrate us more.

Google podcast is a great solution. It doesn’t have everything but it’s real good. I had to manually reload my subscriptions, which was a hassle.

I uninstalled the Apple podcast. It just wasn’t worth the hassle anymore. Maybe that’s what we they want us to do afterall.

I have switched to google podcasts. Not perfect, but it actually works...

My phone battery drains so quick, and the phone heats up incredibly hot.

In addition, when going to the app (either opening it, or switching to it), it takes a LONG while to actually load any content or for me to be able to hit play. I'd wager between 3 to 12 minutes, which is just not acceptable for a list of episodes, especially when the app eats up the battery, and I need to keep it up and active or they never load.

Let's say I'm cooking a quick meal and have ten minutes to listen, it becomes incredibly impractical. I have to open the app and keep it active until it actually loads, and by then dinner should already be close to done. It's a very broken update.

For what it's worth, I have the iPhone SE, but the older one not the newer one.

After a few weeks I have given up. I downloaded Google Podcasts and it is excellent. It took me a while to subscribe to all my podcasts but it was worth it. Much quicker and it has all my podcasts (I needed to use the RSS feed to find a few).

Yes I can’t use this anymore. Going to Spotify. I need to be able to see unplaced episodes and delete ones I don’t want to listen to. Can’t do that anymore. Just see the latest episode or have to go to the podcast page to find the others. You can get rid of shows you don’t want by marking played. Then all of that show’s I played episodes disappear too.

Please write a step by step-guide to find the pictures. I cannot find 2.

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14.7.1 has fixed the vast majority of my issues, I'm very very relieved to say. App loads fast again, and I can play podcasts as soon as I open the app.

Seriously this isn't just a bug. What the heck is happening? I can't delete anything. If their goal was to just have me unsubscribe to basically everything but the few I really, really don't want to miss they've succeeded. I updated this morning and have regretted it immediately.

Are they fixing / changing this?! My phone feels like a ticking time bomb! The heat radiating from it when listening to a podcast is incredibly scary!

i can’t stand using Apple podcast app at the moment. It’s so messy and unorganized I can barely work it out.

Please please please fix this

Though I haven’t tried to delete any episodes, I can’t manually download any old episodes of a podcast I’ve been listening to from the beginning episodes before working my way to the new ones. I hit download from the 3 dot button on the right (stupid new feature) and it will download or so it says, but once I’m away from WiFi it says I have to turn on cellular data to listen. I’ve never done this and have cellular data turned off because with all the shows I listen to, I’d be using 5 gigs a month just auto downloading shows without WiFi.

So I thought, "maybe I'm being dramatic", maybe I'm overestimating the time it takes the app to load content and for me to be able to hit play.

So, I opened a stopwatch app on my computer.

I opened the podcast app and went to the "up next" list, and waited. And waited. It took 10 minutes and 27 seconds to load this list and to let me hit play on my currently playing podcast.

Under literally no circumstance is this ok. Hoping for extensive fixes soon. I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this, either on the original SE or on other models?

My phone goes super hot while I try to listen to podcasts through the Apple podcast app, since the latest iOS update 14.6.

what has happened, Apple come on this is not good enough, you need to sort out and send an update to fix this.

I have so many I listen too that this can’t be good for my phone

when listening to podcast on other apps the phone doesn’t heat up.

Apple used to be about the user experience. This podcast app update is terrible. It is so bad. How did this pass any sort of testing. So much of the functionality is slow and clunky. I can’t tell what podcast is on. Sometimes you can’t skip through the podcast. Dreadful.