Podcast queue reordering issue on Apple Podcasts

Same issue here. No matter what order I put them in, before my eyes the list reorders, sometimes with the episode I’ve moved snapping back to its original position as you describe, but sometimes it goes to a completely random spot! I need to put a queue together for long drives etc so that I don’t have to try and find what I want next whilst driving.

I listen to 6-14 hours of podcasts each day. I am probably pretty high up in the percentages of available hours to listen compared to available hours actually listened… I say that to say I use the Apple Podcasts app everyday, largely all day long. If this does not get fixed I will be moving to Spotify, where almost all of my podcasts are on, some without adds that I currently listen to on Apple Podcsts. So fix it, or lose my advertising monies you make off the back of the podcasts.

This started with iOS 18 and no sign of it changing.

Same here and it's highly annoying. My custom order is all messed up now. Tried fixing it manually but it just reverts back to the crazy mixed up order, even while I am changing it. I also find it inconvenient that I can only see three podcast episodes at a time, now.

Also having this issue, though I can view more than 3 at a time. I've found that if I clear the queue and re-add each podcast in the order I want them to play (using a combo of "play next" and "add to queue"), it works fine. Which is not a fix for the bug, but might be helpful for anyone who's trying to set a queue for a long drive or something.

Hey Crapstix6 -

I experienced the same super annoying bug while running iOS 18.1 and 18.2.

The ability to move >1 episode in my queue is fully restored for me with ios 18.3. I’m currently running the security update 18.3.1 and it still seems to be working fine. I didn’t have to toggle or adjust settings or do anything beyond install the update.

Now, after I add a few podcast episodes to my queue but before I proceed with the art of intentional queue design, I’ll just sit there and shuffle them kind of randomly for a bit. just because I can. It’s like that feeling you get after you had the flu and you realize how good it feels just to feel normal. 🙃

Hope you (and everyone else on the thread) have this basic, but quality-of-life level of important, functionality restored with the ios version 18.3 and 18.3.1 as well.

Agreed. I listen to about the same amount. I start my day by adding everything I need to listen to to my queue and then rearranging. I listen to multiple episodes of certain shows and then reorder and mix them up accordingly. I’ve been doing this for years but would literally have to sit down with a piece of paper and pen to make the list before I added them all if I had to do it in order. As of now I can only do a few episodes at a time and have to spend more time during the day to figure out what to add next. Beyond annoying. I’ve been fighting it since December. This is insane. It’s a “feature” that’s worked for years and it’s unacceptable that it’s not working now. They should have fixed the bug the next day.

I’m on 18.3. I’ve changed all the settings to the way I like them. My problem is I put the same episode to play over and over all night. This used to work flawlessly, but now after that episode ends it’s gone from the Que. I’ve turned off the “hide played episode” and “remove played episode” yet after the episode is finished it just stops… I need that noise to sleep. I’ve done everything

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This is absolutely not a solution to the problem. Apple needs to fix this, The sooner the better.