cant get podcast to play. First Iphone

Greetings orgonfarmgirl,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

I understand that you are having an issue with Podcast playback on your iPhone. To ensure your Podcasts have been setup correctly and for more information about using the Podcasts application, please review the attached iPhone iOS 8 User Guide (pages 131-134). If you are receiving any errors please let me know.

manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

Cheers,

Joe

Joe_7399, I'm having same issues and it has only occurred in past two days. All podcasts only play for 5 to 10 secs then stop and phone reverts to home screen. I've reset phone and all updates loaded. Phone rebooted many times. Any thoughts?

Me too. For the past week or so I've been unable to play podcasts on my iPad. I set up an appointment with Genius Bar to go to this morning and all of a sudden my I pad is playing the podcasts. I am assuming that there was some gigantic problem. Guess I'll cancel my appointment but I'd like to find out what the problem was.