Podcast Continuous Playback broken in 15.4 ?

This continues to happen in December 2023 on iOS 17.1.12. Nothing like going to sleep listening to nice pleasant sounds and having My Brother, My Brother, and Me come on at 2 am. (I love MBMBAM but there’s a time and a place.) Clearly Apple has known about this for years, knows how annoying it is, and doesn’t do anything about it.

iOS 16.6 & my podcast continuous playback regularly turns itself back on. Come on, Apple, I DO NOT WANT continuous playback!!

Unless you can make it like the iPod, where next up is from same show, not some random show.

FIX THIS! If you could do it right with iPod, why not now?

Happening constantly for me 🙁

I have trouble sleeping and listen to podcasts. I listen, then get jolted awake when the next one starts. Turned the continuous play off just before I started one this morning but 45 minutes later when it ended another one started! Turned it off again and now I’m headed to bed and it’s back on!!

does apple review these? Where can we complain?!

sooo tired 😪

I have mostly switched over to Stitcher now. It doesn’t have some features I would like, but it’s better than this.

However, there are still a couple of podcasts I can’t get on Stitcher so I keep Apple’s podcast app.

The latest thing I’ve noticed: IT WILL STILL CONTINUOUS PLAY WHEN THE TOGGLE IS OFF. Before I listen to anything on this app I now just go in and make sure the toggle is off. Now, it keeps playing anyway! Toggle be darned. Great.

Same problem STILL, and on 16.6! Apple, PLEASE FIX THE SETTINGS APP to not keep flipping Podcast continuous play back on randomly. I go to sleep with ONE episode playing and expect it to end but when i wake up my phone has been pulling and playing continuously and now i have to go re-mark-as-unlistened a bunch of episodes. Seriously, how do you even write code that randomly switches on a setting? Nothing but the settings app itself should ever flip that switch to ON. I reported this to Apple but who knows which year it'll get fixed.

I hope Apple realise this soon because those who listen to podcasts while going to sleep are going to have podcasts playing throughout the night. I find it very irritating. I know it’ll be an easy fix but we just need Apple to become aware of the problem.

This is still happening. I turn off Continuous Play and on it's own after a day or two or three it goes back on. Really frustrating. This should be a simple fix by their coders.

Really unimpressed with Apple on this one. This issue was first raised here in March, and it’s now July with no fix or even any response. Is having major bugs in their products, which go unacknowledged for months, something we should expect from Apple?

17.4 and this problem still f’cking exists!!! 🤬

This is also happening to me. It’s so annoying. As someone who listens to podcasts practically every day, I have to change it back at least twice a week. Seriously thinking about downloading a different app.

I have the same issue. Is there any solution?

Still having the same issue but I have been able to counteract it with the “stop playing” function on timer within the clock app, hopefully can be a good in between for people until it is fixed. I check how long the episode has left and just change the timer to suit

UPDATE 2

Sadly the issue has reappeared after a few days so earlier update has not resolved the issue ☹️

Same problem since months.

Yes it’s unbelievable