Why does my iPhone 11 keep switching off a podcast while I’m listening to it when my phone screen locks. It’s never done this before and I don’t know how to stop it from happening

Hi Skybluepink16,

We'd be glad to help check this matter out further with you. We can see from the article you arrived from that you enjoy using Apple Podcasts on your iPhone. However, it now seems that you're experiencing issues where your podcasts stops playing whenever your iPhone automatically locks the screen. To get started, we'd recommend trying out the troubleshooting steps outlined in If an app on your iPhone or iPad stops responding, closes unexpectedly, or won’t open.

Let us know how this works out for you. Cheers!