iOS 15 Podcasts app - Up Next gone screwy

I've just noticed that if I download one new episode and add it to Play Next queue, a handful of the episodes that disappeared suddenly reappear! Ridiculous, but better than having to find them again in the Downloaded folder. Does that work for anyone else?

My issue is the same only I am listening to one podcast with over 200 episodes. I list the play queue for about 10 at a time so I can listen in order instead of most recent first as there are often 5 episodes for the same story. I have always been able to pause, stop or even shut down the podcast app altogether and still go back to the same episode with the same play queue. Got the notification that iOS 15.1 was ready so installed it and all of a sudden if I so much as pause the app it will either delete the play queue meaning I go back to the previous episode after the current one finishes or on occasion it will actually change the episode I’m on skipping back about 3 or 4 episodes!!!

I have been having this issue consistently. I had 10 podcasts queued and once I the one I was listening to ended the entire queue went away. I was driving and have been auto playing to the next one. Ben using this system for years, never had a problem until I got a new iPhone (13 pro). I have gotten no help from Apple whatsoever. It’s infuriating

I updated my iPhone to iOS 15.1 last night and to my sheer panic - woke up the next morning with my entire Apple Podcast Queue list DELETED!

I've been curating this list for years with a backlog of podcast episodes and never imagined an iOS update would decimate my library. Speaking with Apple Support - they were not able to give any insights into if or when this bug would be resolved.

Beyond frustrating that Apple would release an update with a known bug which directly destroys their own native application.

@DTSmith1 - yes that was my experience too! I’ve seen some folks say if they add a new episode to their playlists that it may be recoverable … I destroyed my chance to do this before hearing that but maybe it’ll work for you 🤷🏽‍♀️

I hope they fix this soon. It is so annoying. It looses the state of my podcast progress. If you resume play it will error out. Another issue I found it duplicates the episodes and also removes the downloaded version of episodes. Very poor feature.

I have been having this problem as well, and it's driving me insane (literally)! I listen to a lot of podcasts while I'm driving, and I can't very well be going through and repopulating my Up Next queue while doing that. Even when I'm not driving, though, it's still annoying.

From what I've observed, the Up Next can sometimes be "brought back" if you add an episode of something to it. That doesn't always work, however. Most of the time, it just clears everything out and I'm back to square one. I also can't seem to figure out what causes it. Sometimes, the queue will stay stable for a whole day, even if I'm not listening to it nonstop. Other times, I can pause a podcast to make a single phone call and when I return, I'm playing a different episode of a different podcast!

This is really something Apple needs to fix.

I find another problem beyond the ones presented by many of you. I am re-listening to a whole series (a long one with 200 episodes, and I want to keep listening in order, but when the queue breaks, it makes the next episode one FAR down the line, not the one next in the series.

The one it selects to be the next is one episode that I never finished listening to.

BTW - I also reported with this discussion thread link.

So I’ve noticed yet another “feature” of this bug. Lately, when the glitch happens and my podcast queue vanishes, Siri Voice Feedback in my Apple Watch Workout app toggles ‘on’. Not sure how these two functions are linked, but there you go.

Just keep submitting feedback with the link the person above provided.

I hope they release an update within the next few weeks because I seriously am about to give up trying with this dysfunctional app.

Me too (like thousands of others 😖). Playing Next queue is frequently deleted - sometimes within minutes. 😡

I also find that my current episode gets added to the top of the queue. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but when you’re on a motorbike with the phone connected to the helmet intercom and the episode you just finished starts playing again, it’s really frustrating!

Queue deletion is not as bad now I’ve upgraded to iOS 15.1 but it’s still happening with depressing frequency. 😥

It’s interesting that with the continued issues with apple podcasts due to the last two major iOS updates that apple doesn’t seem to care at all.

I’ve tried a handful of other podcast apps and their interfaces aren’t great. Having a solid ‘play next’ queue is important to me but no one has seemed to be able to create that.

I’m having the same problem. It is very annoying. It deletes the queue for no reason. Just changing to another app or pausing the podcast and it erases again and again. But it doesn’t do it all the times. Could someone suggest a solution?

thanks

Can anyone recommend an alternative to the apple podcast app? This issue has been so frustrating as I have over 150 items in my queue and I can’t keep going back and redoing the playlist like 5-10x a day.

There is no solution other than Apple solving this issue. I sometimes have luck re-adding one episode and suddenly some deleted ones reappear. And add from the Downloaded folder if you can…saves time. That’s all I got.