iPhone XR Podcasts app issues after iOS 18.7.9 update
I appear to have ran into a bit of a problem after updating my iPhone XR to iOS 18.7.9
It all started with not being able to download the Uber app without updating my phones OS despite having auto updates on. I manually started the update and assumed that'd be that. I downloaded uber but it still refused to connect saying 'something went wrong'. I ended up using Lyft which worked fine despite uber having problems, so I didn't think anything of it, later when I went to start a podcast a 'this episode can't be played on this device' error popped up which began my 4 hour troubleshooting journey.
Things I've tried.
- I checked to make sure I have no VPN turned on. No Change.
- I checked the content and privacy settings to make sure something didn't get messed up in the update somehow. No change.
- I went to my reset iPhone settings and reset my network settings. No change.
- I deleted the podcast app then redownloaded it from the app store. I then launched the app via the store as I'd seen that as a potential fix too but again no change.
- I've restarted my phone. No Change.
- I've turned off local wifi and attempted to use Data. No change.
- What's shown the most promise or worst I'm not sure yet is I went to my storage settings and deleted the downloaded episodes of various podcasts in case there was an error there. It didn't help with most of the podcasts. However, when I was done redownloading the podcast app it auto downloaded the first episode of several podcasts I was following. Which somehow I can listen to via the downloaded tab and those specific podcasts continue to work normally even outside of that one downloaded episode. A few examples are "The Dead" and "SCP: Find Us Alive". Meanwhile no other podcasts seem to work, even random ones I'd never looked at before. I've attempted to download episodes in case it's a streaming error but they just get an 'unable to download podcast' error unless it's one of those select few that already have one episode downloaded.
I've tried several of these multiple times, changing their order to see if that will fix the issue. I've looked up guides but none have offered any solutions that I haven't already tried, except for one that suggested using Imazing to reinstall my IOS update which I'd rather not spend $30 for a yearly subscription to something I don't intend to ever use again.
iPhone XR
