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Why can't I listen to my Podcasts while in Airplane mode?

I noticed that podcasts now have a new app just for podcasts. So far so good. But I loaded up 12 hours worth of them for a plane trip and none of them would play. I guess they now need a network connection. This is not an improvement. Unless I have missed something, this is a big negative feature.

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Posted on Oct 31, 2012 3:10 PM

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Posted on Jun 22, 2017 10:24 PM

Well, I still have this problem. The iPhone says I've downloaded my podcasts but they are unavailable as soon as I turn airplane mode on. I wish apple would allow me the option of using the old iTunes. Nice and simple, did everything I needed, and it just worked. I'm getting tired of the 'improvements'. If I wanted to have to do a few hours of research every time I needed to use what should be a basic feature (like how to include reminders into calendar -oh wait, you can't) I would buy windows systems.

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Why can't I listen to my Podcasts while in Airplane mode?

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