iOS 9 podcast app video in fullscreen

Thanks.... That's a neat settings trick. 🙂

You skip 30 (no 15 option) seconds by swiping across the screen. So no buttons are necessary.

By comparison, Downcast is fully developed, and has been for several years, while Podcasts seems like a beta trial. So Downcast doesn't provide the opportunity to enjoy the many app crashes, freezes, forgotten downloads and sync issues Apple does with Podcasts. Let alone the full screen video fail.

Is that the same both left and right?

really? it can't take more than one programmer and five minutes of work to put the **** fullscreen button back in to the podcast app and they don't give a sh**? what is wrong with you apple? where is your attention to detail? the app is no longer useable for videos!

@MikesApples

Yes, you also can swipe left to go 30 seconds back In Downcast. Thie skip forward gesture is convenient while driving and listening to audio. Sorry Leo.

After using Downcast today, I'm completely sold and converted. I find myself no longer caring about the Apple POS podcast app. My advice to everyone reading this tread is to spend the $3.00 for Downcast. It's really solid and has everything Apple's does plus some. Being able to skip commercials via the Remote Media skip feature is awesome and worked like a champ on my 2 hour commute today. I didn't have to take my eye's off the road or hands off the steering wheel. Seriously... I'm 100% converted and not looking back. Thank you @JReishen for your suggestion!

Brilliant, thanks.🙂

Exactly. What is the point of Jony Ive sweating over every tiny physical design detail if the software is rough-shod and negatively taints the entire user experience?

Scott Forstall was fired over the poor quality Maps app. However Maps is an intrinsically difficult challenge. The app itself is just the tip of the iceberg; underneath it is an immense undertaking requiring gigantic databases, fleets of camera cars, etc. Probably nobody could have produced a near competitor to Google Maps on the first release.

By contrast the Podcasts app is just an app. The failure to work full screen on an iPad is slipshod programming and testing. It looks and feels cheap, like a blunder in a high school programming exercise. The decision to knowingly ship it in that state speaks poorly for the personal integrity and professionalism of the product management, programming and testing teams. With many other companies a glaring issue like that in a common-path user area would be an unquestioned ship stopper. Does nobody have any pride in their workmanship?

I just finished talking with Apple Support -- their recommendation (which I have in writing) is to not use the Podcasts app but rather use Downcast from the App Store.

I wonder how different things would be if each software team responsible for their section were named.

Those who did good could bask in the glory of "I did that, check me out". Equally if a department failed or went cannon loose they would be in the firing range so to speak.

Sure would keep them on their toes.

Fullscreen in the podcast app is still broken in iOS 9.0.2 on the iPad. Please fix this apple.

Report this problem to Apple here ~ http://www.apple.com/feedback/podcasts_ios.html

I have just done it.

So they will fix it because you just reported it? Keep up the spirit then. It's been there since May t.y. and no **** has happened until now. Good luck On behalf of all us that feel big time cheated by Apple inc. They sold me their top tablet with a working version of podcast in 8.4, which was extremely important app for me as I travel a lot. Man do I feel f..... all over by a greedy corporation that not even reply back to us whatever they have acknowledged there is problem. Buggers.

ps I was a sw tester for Apple from June onwards, and I found 29 other Bugs. None have been corrected.....so I'm scared they will screw us all over.

Well, I don't watch my podcasts every day but not being able to see them in full screen on my iPad Air 2 is annoying! If they don't fix it in the next iOS 9 patch, I think I will go ahead and buy that Downcast app!

I've had the Downcast app for a long time now. Once it started working with my playlists again, I've preferred to use the Podcasts app because I have a deep backlog of podcasts dating back to 2012 that I'm using iTunes to manage. I got tired of manually syncing played status between Downcast and iTunes, plus ensuring they both keep fetching episodes without gaps.

Because of my backlog, I need to be able to play these video podcasts at 2x speed or better. I'd use the AppleTV instead if it were capable of 2x playback. AirPlay wouldn't even do it from an iOS device.

If you prefer free, Overcast removed all in-app purchases, meaning you get for free everything that used to cost extra. And look at the App Store ratings. Marco Arment is a brilliant programmer (he wrote Instapaper) and all of his apps have received similarly high ratings.

If I hadn't already purchased Downcast, I would look pretty carefully at Overcast.

BTW, he is the guy that wrote Peace, the ad blocker, then pulled it for ethical reasons. In refunding, he handed back dozens of thousands dollars.