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I have up-to-date Podcast app. I am streaming an episode on my home WFI. Episode’s won’t resume. The progress circle has been spinning for 20 minutes. How do I get the episode to resume. I shut down the app and relaunched it. I powered down my iPhone and restarted it. No luck.
It’s horribly annoying and probably happens 40% of the times I try resuming a podcast. I now just automatically delete the app and re-download when this occurs. I hemorrhage money to Apple every month and they should fix this!
It’s horribly annoying and probably happens 40% of the times I try resuming a podcast. I now just automatically delete the app and re-download when this occurs. I hemorrhage money to Apple every month and they should fix this!
Yes this happens all the time. It seems particularly the case when I pause when I am out and about and using 4G/5G and then return home and switch to my wifi. Why does it keep doing this Apple?
Having to delete and re-download the app is ridiculous. I am going to use another podcast app that works. You'd think Apple would know about this by now and send a fix.
I think I got past this. I “marked as unplayed” and I was able to listen to the podcast.
Instructions:
Next to the podcast title is three dots
“ . . . “
Click on them.
The drop-down has a “Mark as Unplayed” option.
I was then able to get a response when I hit the “Play” button and used the slide bar to resume approximately where I left off.
Yes it’s extremely annoying. The only fix I found so far is if I delete the app and redownload it. Haven’t found a permanent way to fix it yet
But why, Apple, why?
Marking as unplayed did not work for me. Super frustrating. I don’t want to have to delete and redownload the app. It should just work.
I am wondering the same. My podcasts will not resume or replay. I have checked all my settings and cannot find anything that would cause or fix this problem. Apple, help us out here….
SO annoying! I was cussing out my car today, thinking it was the problem.
Thank you for this shortcut, now I won’t have to delete and redownload anymore!
CornbreadSurprise wrote:
But why, Apple, why?
Because the app probably doesn't make Apple any money so they don't care. Also probably because most people use Spotify or similar instead. I wouldn't be surprised if the Apple Podcast app disappeared in the next major release. 😞
That didn't seem to work for me.
Agree on how annoying it is and deleting/re-downloading is the only thing that has worked for me. If I have to download a podcast app anyway, I think I'll try one that doesn't have the history of annoyance like this one now does. It's not like there aren't many to choose from.
This did not work for me either.
Same issue for months.
I recently tried deleting all the downloaded episodes (General>Storage>Podcasts) and it started working for me.
Hopefully it lasts.
Podcast Episode won’t resume.
