The Podcast app started playing while sitting on my desk. This has happened a few times before but I was using the phone and I thought I accidentally tapped the app. I know I can kill the app but it never happened with the Music app. Any suggestions?
iPhone 4S, iOS 6
Partial sidenote: Saw a massive spike in data use which seems to correlate to the install of the podcast app. I don't see a spike when the app is turned off (and the app was set to not use cellular data the whole time).
I think I have a temporary work-around.
Since iOS 5, the behavior of Wifi changed. While it was once persistant; in iOS 5+ it turns off the wifi annenae when asleep. UNLESS you are connected to power. I have checked this with the 'ping' command, and it does appear to be the case with my iPhone 4. I cannot find a non-jailbreak solution to keep my wifi connected save for keeping it plugged in (impractical, but not impossible)
(speculation) the Podcast app is not able to figure out when to STOP downloading material when the wifi is off.
So if you want to sync podcasts- connect to power to stay on wifi. Then be sure to close it when done so it doesn't start up after a call ends.
Amusingly enough, I ended a call with Applecare talking about this very issue when the podcasts started playing. Applecare (tier 1) had no solutions or tech notes about this but AT&T seemed to be aware of this data use spike with iOS 6 (or more likely the buggy podcast app). I sent in a bug report with the data use spikes on it as well.
So I think I figured something out with it not syncing podcasts. And at least some of it was my own doing.
1) Turn OFF all subscriptions on your podcast app.
2) Go into iTunes and check your podcast syncing settings. Mine had been turned off; and the 'Selected Podcasts' I had been syncing were all unchecked.
3) Sync iphone (it may take a few tries to get it all, and you may need to relaunch the app)
Ta-da...the podcast playlists are empty in iTunes, but at least all my archived podcasts are on my iPhone and I have relative confidence that it won't decided to download content and suck up data over cellular.🙂
No if we can get it to stop randomly playing w/o having to quit it...
Me too. Listen to a podcast.. Unplug headphones pausing podcast. After concluding phone call podcast starts playing. Definately a bug.
Having the same issue. Whenever I end a call, the PodCast app starts playing the last played Podcast?
Podcast app plays at random times
