Q: Where are the advance rewind controls for Podcasts in ios9?

TThe diagrams in the Online iOS 9 for iPhone Guide at http://help.apple.com/iphone/9/#/ or the iOS 9 for iPhone iBook at https://help.apple.com/epub/iphone/en/ show you where they are.

As a huge podcast fan I was initially horrified by what appears to be the missing bump controls. It's not as bad as it seems. Assuming you have it enabled they are on the lock screen like in IOS8. If you are in the podcast app they do appear to be missing. However if you swipe up from the new white control bar at the bottom you get the old style podcast screen which indeed has the skip controls. It's an arguably redundant additional step but the controls are there if buried.

You are correct that the controls are there even when not visible. I didnt see zoom in display and brightness. I did see text size. I tried decreasing this as much as possible. But the icons never were displayed. The interesting thing is I don't see the icons on my iPad or my iPhone. They also don't display on my wife's iPhone. I can't imagine we have any unusual settings. The icons do display on the lock screen.

For me, the controls are not only invisible but they DO NOT EXIST. (Yes, I'm shouting, this is extremely frustrating.)

When I view a video podcast in landscape mode, they appear and function, but on my iPhone 5, in portrait mode, they simply do not exist and I am completely unable to either rewind nor fast forward. The speed control exists and the 15-second increment/decrement controls exist and work, but not the REW/FF controls. When people refer to the display and brightness controls that might affect it, what are you referring to? I don't think that it would help me in my case regardless since there's no functionality there, but I'm willing to entertain any suggestions. BTW, my brightness is set to maximum with Auto-Brightness turned off. Toggling it on does not help (it just makes the screen dark).

iondeclev,

You stated

notice that the screen shot provided DOES have the skip forward and backward icons

But when I look on the image you pointed to (http://help.apple.com/iphone/9/en.lproj/Art/PODCST_playback.png) I do NOT see any fast forward/rewind buttons. I only see labels (and associated icons) for

Tap to see more info.

Playhead (which allows you to drag the play location to somewhere else in the podcast ... a very crude control for long podcasts).

Tap to speed up or slow down.

Up Next

Volume

Sleep timer.

Where in that image are you seeing fast forward / rewind buttons ???

WOW. Thank you! I've been trying to find playback controls all week. Did not try swiping up! This is a new level of non-intuitive.

Thank you so much.  This worked for me.  I have been so frustrated since my update, so thanks for taking the time to post the solution.

jtien512 and Pageet,

What did you find that helped you? I still don't have anything, even after the 9.01 update. Yes, I have the 15-second forward/backward button, and I have the speed change (1x, 1.5x, 2x, 0.5x), but I still do NOT have the fast forward/reverse buttons, which also function as the next/previous chapter buttons.

I think there's a bit of confusion between two ways to go forward and back:

1. The 15 second jump, forwards or back: this one, I still see.
2. The older arrows that jumped to the beginning of the track (and then to the previous track), or to the next track. These buttons just skipped the current podcast. (Did they also "scrub" the podcast if you held the button? I never tried that.) I no longer see these buttons on my iPhone 5.

Note that, if you're listening with headphones that have a button, pressing the button twice does still have the "jump to next track" function; maybe pressing the button three times still has the "jump to beginning of track" function, but I haven't tried that. But that's probably not going to be helpful if you're using the iPhone in a car.

Wait?! How is this SOLVED? There is a BUG hiding an essential control from the user.

Can someone show me where to report bugs to Apple for this kind of thing?

Thanks!

BaristoSan,

There used to be buttons with double-triangles that -- when you held them down and kept them down -- functioned as fast forward and reverse. In fast forward mode, it moved the podcast forward continuously at about a 10x rate (I'm guessing about the rate). And for (long) podcasts that were broken up into chapters, tapping those buttons would jump to the next "chapter" or to the beginning of the current chapter.

Now, when viewing a video podcast in landscape mode, I still see those buttons. But a video podcast in portrait mode (which really means a tiny screen with information in the bottom half of the screen) and ALL audio podcasts no longer have those buttons.

FWIW, I have an iPhone 5.

I can't speak to what the controls look like when playing a video (I don't have any video podcasts). But when playing an audio podcast, on the "My podcasts" screen, the title of the podcast appears in a banner at the bottom of the screen. Try tapping that. It brings back the advanced audio controls. This is the picture from thinkjudd that helped me:

jtien512,

I am fully aware of those advanced controls ... I figured that out within a couple of seconds of trying my first podcast after the iOS9 update. However, within those advanced controls, there used to be two additional controls that provided the functionality that I keep describing. You're not the first person on this thread to point out how to get to the "advanced" controls ... that is absolutely not my issue. My issue is that the advanced audio controls are no longer nearly as "advanced" as they used to be ... they're missing two very important (to me) controls that previously existed.