iOS 15 Podcasts app - Up Next gone screwy

Same thing here. Plus sometimes my queue returns (except for the currently playing episode) with all the episodes of some random podcast down at the bottom. I haven’t been able to work out what makes my queue reappear, so I’ve basically given up on keeping up with podcasts.

Tonight I also noticed that when my husband started a podcast on his phone, playing on our HomePod, it showed up as playing in my podcasts. And after it was done - my queue was back to every unheard episode of one random podcast. :( Useless.

Yeah, I’m having the same problem, but my playlist disappears and sometimes reappears randomly after I set up a couple new shows in the queue. I’ve added a ticket so hopefully they’re on it for the next update.

I’m wondering if anyone from apple has see or acknowledged there is an issue with the podcast app? I’ve tried to scroll through the multiple pages of comments but don’t see anything. It’s possible I missed it.

I am also still seeing this problem after the latest OS update, with it now failing sometimes within 15 seconds of pausing a podcast on the app. It will fail if I pause my podcast, place my Airbuds Pro in my ears and click to continue playing - at that time, it will skip item(a) on my list or what I was already listening to.

I am also seeing an effect when using my AirPods Pro to pause and/or start a podcast - my queue seems much more likely to vanish when I do this, as opposed to using my iPhone directly (although it does happen when using my phone, just less often).

I left feedback (again) and included a link to this thread, for what that’s worth.

I am another user with this problem. I can set the line up and be listening to a podcast. A little time later (maybe minutes) I go in to the up next list and it is as if I had never gone through and added all the podcasts to the list. There is nothing set to play next. I presently have 20 podcasts in my “latest episodes” list that today alone have added to the play next line up several times.

Same problems. Same symptoms. Up Next queue loses index of manually-set podcast episodes. Up Next queue will add previously-played episodes even with episodes the app identifies as previously-played. If the app code didn’t change between releases, then the data structure must have.

I'm on iOS 15.1, and this is happening to me just about every time I haven't listened for a day or so. And I usually find out when I've gotten in my car and started driving. It even forgets the podcast that I'm halfway through listening to, and starts playing an old episode. It happened before iOS 15, but only rarely.

I'm on an iPhone 7+.

just to say thank you for making me chuckle. I’ve given up on Podcasts now and moved to Spotify which isn’t almost as good as Apple Podcasts when Apple used to work and a million times better than Apple Podcasts now

Thanks Beth. Does that require a Spotify subscription? Or is it separate to the music streaming service?

I could listen via some proprietary apps (e.g. BBC Sounds for BBC podcasts), but I like to mix up my listening, so if I want to follow up a BBC show with a different provider, I'd have to stop what I was doing and switch apps.

You don’t need a subscription - just the app.

It was vaguely painful making the switch but not as painful as keeping on losing my list.

First step was following the shows I have on Apple on Spotify and then working out where I was up to on Apple to then start a new list on Spotify.

Spotify has a playlist feature called ‘my list’ which is either ordered by date added to ‘my list’ or date of the podcast. It is slightly frustrating that you can’t move a podcast in the list so if you add it in the wrong order it is irritating.

That said, I made the change about a week ago and I’m almost used to Spotify in the same way I was with Apple. One thing for sure is that I’m not screaming at my phone every time I try and listen to a podcast like I was when I was using Apple Podcasts

And forgot to say, every podcast I had on Apple was on Spotify and one thing Spotify does much better than Apple is make recommendations of things you might want to listen to.

Tangentially, it was quite cathartic making the switch as I realised that I was listening to some shows out of habit rather than anything useful so I had a good clear out too.

This sucks! I put a sleep podcast on for my daughter every night. Since there’s no “repeat” option I just put it a bunch of times as “play next.” Every time my queue gets erased it plays random episodes from the same podcast and it scares her awake. Please fix this!

I have the same problem! Every list I make just erase as the app close. I tried everything; erase the app and download it again; restart the library-everything! But it’s just play the whole list from the show I chose. What do we do? That’s preposterous! I was a fool to down load the 15 version

As a temporary solution, I have found if I add a new episode to my “play next” or “play last” queue, then my previously created podcast playlist mysteriously reappears. This is obviously not helpful when you’re driving or generally just want the playlist to run without interruption.