Podcast App Crashes Immediately on iPad Air

You aren't alone. Just started doing this within the hour.

iPhone 5s

iOS 7.1.1

Podcast app version 2.1.2

It's worked fine for me for months, until today. On my iphone 5 I opened the Podcasts app this morning and it crashed immediately. Restarted the phone, same. Reinstalled the app and restarted the phone, same.

There doesn't seem to be any recent updates to the app that would cause different behavior. I did install the Uber app last night, that's the only phone change lately.

I have the same problem, everything is up to date and my iphone 5s has been shut off and restarted.

same for me on iPhone 4s as well as iPad mini. I live on podcasts all day. So obviously my life is now ruined. Rebooting. Reinstalling, on/off....nothing works. Did Apple sneak in an update without notification? Big coincidence this is happening to so many people at the same time.

Looks like I'm not the only one who had this problem suddenly today! My iPhone 5s is doing the same as everybody else here. I have uninstalled and reinstalled to no success. Hope somebody is on fixing this!

I have the same issue on my iphone 5s.

Me too on my iPone 4s.

If you turn off cellular data for Podcasts, and turn off wifi then the app does not crash. Obviously you can't download any more podcasts but it suggests to me that there is some sort of iTunes server problem rather than a problem on the phone itself. I've tried deleting the app, restarting the phone and re-installing the app and this does not help.

Hope Apple fixes this soon!

I turned off the apps ability to connect to the internet and it is working again.

Turning off wifi and cell worked for me. Nice work Robin!

Same here. Happening on both my iPhone 4S and iPad 4. Confirmed that putting it into airplane mode prevents the crash, but that renders it useless as a phone and of course and useless for podcasts unless you've already downloaded them.

Ok, I enabled "Access Wifi" then turned Airplane Mode on. Now it works. Turned Airplane Mode off and it crashes. I did this a few times, back and forth, now it's found and downloading an episode. We'll see if it plays...

Playing as I type. Beats me what's going on, but for now it works.

I have noticed that If i turn off web connection, Wi-Fi and Cellular Data, before I open the app it is stable enough to listen.

Even after I turn the Wi-Fi back on after it is playing.

How so how do I report this to Apple?

This also started to happen to me today, just today. iPhone 5S, iOS 7.1.1, Podcasts version 2.1.2.

I had one podcast (Le Show, by Harry Shearer) that was giving me trouble; it hadn't successfully downloaded either to my laptop nor to my iPhone in the past three weeks. Last night I deleted it, thinking I was probably hooked up to an older, problematic feed. I resubscribed in iTunes, and everything seemed to work fine. I was able to get two recent episodes, and (I thought) sync them to my iPhone

Just now I got in my car to run some errands. That podcast wasn't there. I came back into the house to sync again, and when I launched Podcasts on my phone, it crashed as soon as I tried to make any selection from within the app. That is, it opened up okay, but as soon as I touched the screen to make any menu choice, it crashed.

Turning off WiFi seems to have cured that problem. Of course, that makes the iPhone useless for other things, doesn't it.

Why did it start automatically happening to us all today? I presume, like me, none of you have updated either iOS or the Podcasts app today, right?

Creepy! and Frustrating!

Same issue on an iPad Air

Same issue on my iphone 5 and iPad 3. Just started within the hour. App worked great on my drive in to work this