podcasts within podcast app no longer refresh

this didn't work for me.

i can't sync to my itunes on my mac. none of the podcast download straight to the app which mean i need to be connected to internet all the time to stream them.

please apple, please fix this.

Meanwhile i found out, that the main problem in my case is Internet-connectivity. I use my iPod touch mostly offline. The podcast-episodes are synchronized with iTunes, but they are not shown in the Podcasts-App.

Instead of synchronizing three times as described above, in my case it's sufficient to get Internet-connectivity. The Podcasts-App seems to check the synchronized episodes on the Internet, before showing them in the Podcasts-App.

Nevertheless i hope that Apple will fix this soon. Not everyone has Internet-connectivity and especially Wifi-connectivity all the time. When synchronizing with iTunes it should work without Internet-connectivity!

Will have to think on that one. I purposely have wifi and bluetooth off to exptend battery life.

This weekend I ended up doing restore on iPod again, it stopped sending episodes from iTunes to iPod. Still doesn't remove episodes from list in app, the file are not on deivce as can be seen when looking at iPod contents through iTunes and not being able to play them on device.

DyaNaSore wrote:

The Podcasts-App seems to check the synchronized episodes on the Internet, before showing them in the Podcasts-App.

Yes! Thank You DyaNaSore! This is what I'm experiencing

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Why do my iPod touch and iPad need to talk to Apple before they will let me play items Apple already let me download on another device? They don't even do this for items I've purchased from the store. I don't have wifi at home, so if I sync my devices and forget to logon to wifi at work, I can't get to my new episodes that I know are on the device. Why would they do this? And I just figured this out because I was uninstalling the podcasts app and reinstalling after I synced to show the new episodes, which meant I had to get online to get the app. At least when I thought that reinstalling the app was the answer to my problem it was clearly a mistake, now I', afraid they think this is a new 'feature" - making sure I have the latest album artwork or some such nonsense.

Please Apple, fix this. Not everybody has connectivity everywhere, all the time.

i still can't sync my phone to itunes on the mac pro via a cable. the podcast never sync. other stuff does.

the recent ios update solved my issues.

When I updated iOS on iPod touch it seemed to correct episodes not showing in app when iTunes showed them on device. However, over a few days the episodes in app got out of sync with iTunes again. played and iTunes deleted episodes still show in app, new episodes in iTuens getting sent to iPod but not showing in app. Will try turning on wifi then syncing again as someone else suggested above. Doesn't make sense but can't hurt.

I had this problem, too. After an hour-plus chat with Apple support, here's what worked:

I had to turn on WiFi. Podcasts asked me to log in to the iTunes Store. Magic. All of my podcasts were restored.

I usually keep WiFi off to (1) help with battery life -- I'm mostly using my iPod where there's no WiFi, and (2) to make sure I'm not downloading something I don't want -- I have a limited Internet connection when I'm at home.

Maybe this will work for others.

Nice to know what the 'official' answer is. My problem is my wife and I use same apple account. If I sign into it with iPod it mixes her podcast subscriptions with mine then we both have to clean up device contents.

i have wifi turned on all the time. it makes no difference.