iOS9 podcasts play order

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There are two settings relevant to keeping podcasts episodes in the Podcasts app and in a Station after they have been played: Podcast Settings (below left) and Station Settings (below right).

• Delete Played Episodes in the Podcast Settings must be Off and

• the Unplayed Only slider must be Off.

As for the Sort order, it can only be set to Newest or Oldest in the Podcast Settings (below left).

Stations show the oldest podcasts on top by default, however, you can manually change that by tapping Edit in the upper right of a Station screen.

Station Settings permit you to select from four choices for Play order.

So I've tried everything, subscribed to a bunch of podcasts changed each to play and sort oldest to newest, then created a new station and even applied the setting to play oldest to newest even before selecting the podcasts I want. Everytime it just order the most recent episodes for each podcast in order of oldest to newest based on the unplayed list only. NOT all episodes in each podcast (which is what I want and what cyberbiker is talking about). Now using Overcast which does this perfectly

This is nonsense. Will Apple ever make an update to this dreadful app that doesn't actively make some part of it worse?

There seems to be a workaround. If you go to "My Podcasts" and click "All Unplayed" at the top of the list, it brings you to a page that (my goodness!) has "settings" on it, where you can set oldest first.

I don't have an All Unplayed at the top of My Podcasts. 😟

Is this on desktop iTunes? I don't see it on the mobile version. Did you create that station?

As best I can tell the "Unplayed" panel is useless. You're stuck with playing through all your podcasts from the newest onwards (what on earth do Apple's software engineers think we do with podcasts?!). Plus all the description is a massive bloat in the interface.

More useful: "My Podcasts". When you first check that pane it looks ridiculous - a long list of all podcasts you've ever used, with most of mine at least having 0 episodes. But in the upper left corner you can press the "+" button to add a podcast or, more importantly, a station. You can then make a station that will include the podcasts you want: in my case, it's all of them, in the order I set them to long ago. There seems to be some moderately fine-grained control in the settings, although I haven't played with it yet. You can also set up a bunch of different stations. After that, when you choose the "My Podcasts" tab, any stations you've made will be listed at the top of the screen.

Unfortunately it seems like the app always opens to "Unplayed" rather than "My Podcasts", but I guess like with the Music app, I'm going to have to get used to clicking through a few pages before I get to the list of playlists that I want.

There is no default All Uplayed Station in the My Podcast Tab. You create your own Statiins and name them whatever you want. By creating a Station, including all your podcast subscriptions, then in the Station Setting Play Oldest to Newest, it will achieve just what you want.

Go to "My Podcasts" and scroll to the top. You'll see "Most Recent." That's where you can access settings (also at the top) and change the play order from oldest to newest.You don't have to create a new playlist. That makes the whole unplayed vs. most recent work exactly opposite of the way the was it used to in the previous version, but it at least allows you to play all podcasts in oldest to newest order.

I agree that the "unplayed" playlist is pretty useless for how I listen to podcasts.

When you scroll to the top of "My Podcasts" the only thing revealed is a search bar. There is no "Most Recent" or any other sorting option. Lost in Asia and cyberbiker's responses are accurate. See attached image for reference. Note I've already created a station called "Old to New" - this station will obviously not be present on others' devices.

Most Recent doesn't exist on the mobile version.

Thanks for the "old to new" tip!

AMes77, Most Recent is one of your old Playlists. It is not a default Station on the new Podcast app. Create a Station and in it's settings select all your subscriptions, choose unplayed only, and set the play order to Newest to Oldest or the reverse.

IF i go to my podcasts and click on a podcast I get a screen that shows the episodes and has a settings Gear. I can go into that gear and there are numerous settings. Hope I didn't misunderstand your issue.

Thanks but with me there is no gear symbol, just the word "Edit" which does not show what your setting gear cog does.

I have a 5S with 64 Gig, and ios 9.2

Also There is also no rectangle with played / unplayed nor a square box with up arrow in it.

I live in Australia but surely that can not make a difference?