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Podcast Subscription Not Working

At the beginning of the year, I purchased a yearlong subscription to Up First+ with NPR. It was working completely fine until today, when I logged in and saw the “subscribe” option in the Up First feed. I thought mine hadn’t run out, but I tried to click to resubscribe anyway, and was faced with a “You’re currently subscribed to this” message. I managed my subscription in the App Store, cancelling it, and there it told me that my subscription would remain active until expiring in February. So I should still have access! When I went back in the podcast app and tried to subscribe again, it let me, but still didn’t change to subscriber edition, and clicking the subscribe buttons again returns right to the “currently subscribed” message once more.


It would be fine if it was just visual error, but today I only got the non-subscriber episod that has ads :(


Deleting and redownloading the podcast app, as well as restarting my phone both did nothing.


iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Nov 18, 2024 12:25 PM

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Posted on Nov 18, 2024 6:18 PM

Starting today I am having the same issue with another NPR podcast subscription and have tried all the things you have but to no avail.

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Podcast Subscription Not Working

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