Podcast's not downloading

I am experiencing this problem as well. Thought it might be cell network/wifi related, but even after I allowed podcasts to update over cellular, and at home on my very fast wifi network, still seeing the same issue.

Thank God for Google! I have been frustrated with my podcast not downloading and not even allowing me to manually download Podcasts. Sure enough… Powered the phone down and up again and immediately my podcast resumed it's downloading. I have an iPhone 7 and it's updated to the last iOS 10.23 THANK YOU!

This is a very helpful reply. I followed it once, and it worked. Now I have the same problem. I think a download "gets stuck" and somehow needs to be cleared.

However, the first time I followed this it took me a long while to figure out what GoMissou90 means by "Pull to refresh" in step 3. There is no such command on my iPhone. Now I need a fix again, I need to figure this out again.

Can you help us GoMiss'?

I have the same issue - stuck on "preparing to download". It started with iOS 8.3.

Apple, please could you acknowledge the issue and fix it?

I am having the same problem. Here is a work around that worked for me:

1. Pull up from the bottom of the screen for Control Center
2. Tap the Airplane mode icon to turn of the internet connection (presumably to prevent Podcasts from trying to contact iTunes).
3. Pull to refresh on the main Podcasts screen (presumably that clears whatever bad bits got stuck).
4. Pull up from the bottom of the screen for Control Center again.
5. Tap the Airplane mode icon to turn the internet connection back on.

Same problem. Was able to fix by turning the phone off and on

A reboot ended up solving the problem for me too.

Turning phone off and on again fixed my Podcasts as well.

This method did not work for me (iOS 8.3, Podcasts 2.2.1 (740.56)). But turning phone off and on again helped.

Same problem for me, with ios8.3 and podcast 2.2.1 on an iPhone 5S

Same problem, reboot did seem to fix it, however podcasts seem to down loading much slower than they used to. 😟

Here to confirm that the phone restart worked for me too. Podcasts are now downloading!

Thank You Thank You Thank You

Same problem on my ipod & resetting worked for me also

Worked for me too! 🙂