Podcast episode unavailable

I suddenly have this problem on multiple podcasts from multiple sources

PC Pro Podcast 416

Behind the Glass Episode 5

BBC Chequered Flag F1 Belgian Grand Prix Preview

I've tried a few things but nothing has worked

iP6+ iOS 10.3.3

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It happened to me on Episode 50 & 52 of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. These are very long episodes and I thought that might have something to do with it. These are the only two that have ever caused me a problem in a few months that I've been using it. (I used another podcast app until it stopped working in ios 11.)

Toggling Settings -> Podcast -> Cellular Data and Sync Podcasts both to off didn't make a difference. Nor did rebooting the phone several times.

I unsubscribed and re-subscribed and downloaded the episodes again and that did help. Actually, it didn't at first. I knew the episode downloaded because I watched as the indicator progressed. After it downloaded, I clicked play. The play button turned into a pause button but the time didn't progress and there was no sound. I force quit then re-opened the Podcasts again and now it's working.

I occasionally get that too when an episode first turns up. In my case, the episodes haven't downloaded yet.

My assumption is that too many people are downloading it or it has been entered as an episode, but not yet released for downloading for one reason or another.

Did anyone ever resolve this issue?

I have the same problem. You can start listening to podcasts while connected to ANY wifi, and they continue to play if you leave wifi. But if you stop playing and then try to restart (while away from wifi) you get a message saying the podcast is temporarily unavailable. This is brand new behavior as of last week for me. The podcasts HAVE been downloaded, they ARE on the phone, NOT being streamed. Here's a like to a very recent thread that is about the same problem: Podcast only plays through wifi shows unavailable otherwise

I seem to have figured out how to get podcasts to play when not connected to wifi. In the Settings app go into the Cellular menu, scroll down, and turn on cellular data for the Podcast app. Then scroll up to the top and turn on Celluar Data. Start playing your podcast. At this point you can turn off cellular data and the podcast will continue to play, until you stop it, at which point you'll have to turn on celluar data again to restart the podcast.

Hello Big Andy,

Occasionally I get the same error: a downloaded podcast is temporarily unavailable.

It seems that the software reports the podcast as downloaded, but the podcast is corrupted in some way.

The fix that works for me: delete the download for the given podcast (under the i symbol), then download it again. Note that when you delete it but before you re-download it, you can now play it from the cloud (but you probably don't want that, as you downloaded it in the first place).

Sometimes this fix appears not work, because you encountered another corrupt download reported as complete. Sigh. Delete and re-re-download.

Apologies for the late reply; I just found this thread.

Same here since update to 10.3.3.on my iPhone 7

Multiple podcasts from the BBC, which I've raised with them but no luck getting a solution

Glad to know I am not alone !

The BBC Chequered Flag F1 Belgian Grand Prix Preview fixed 'itself'

The other two I had to delete the subscriptions, download with iTunes and then copy to phone

It happened to me on Episode 50 & 52 of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Toggling Podcast ->