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Q: Podcasts App keeps crashing

I updated my iPhone 5s to 9.0.2 the latest operating system. Now whenever I open my Podcasts app it immediately crashes after a few seconds. I have restarted my phone, I have checked for any software updates (there are none for the Podcasts app), I listen to podcasts all the time and would love to fix this issue as soon as possible.

iPhone 5s, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 18, 2015 11:29 AM

by gatsby101,Solvedanswer
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Same - still not fixed after several weeks of this abysmal step backward. Very disappointed.

Posted on Oct 21, 2015 1:58 PM

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  • by gatsby101,Solvedanswer

    gatsby101 gatsby101 Oct 21, 2015 1:58 PM in response to Tmotj
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    Oct 21, 2015 1:58 PM in response to Tmotj

    Same - still not fixed after several weeks of this abysmal step backward. Very disappointed.

  • by Michael_C,

    Michael_C Michael_C Oct 22, 2015 12:04 AM in response to Tmotj
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:04 AM in response to Tmotj

    The reverse for me - updating to 9.0.2 fixed my Podcasts app crashes. Might be some sort of general iOS instability that has nothing to do with a specific system bug. (People who erase and start from scratch with a "clean" iOS seem to not have the problem.)

  • by Earthtripgirl,

    Earthtripgirl Earthtripgirl Oct 24, 2015 1:05 PM in response to Tmotj
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    Oct 24, 2015 1:05 PM in response to Tmotj

    I had the same problem - after a forced update (not sure what for) my podcast app stopped working.  I tried everything - hard reboot, thermonuclear option - completely erase all and re-load from cloud. Upgraded to ios 9.1 - nothing.  podcast version 2.3 still not working - crashes after a few seconds.

     

    So here's what's working so far - switch to airplane mode, then launch podcast app.  Hang out playing what's already downloaded for a while.  If all seems to be going well, switch airplane off and play from feeds.  It's working so far.  But who knows whether it will mess up again.

     

    I hate the new podcast view though - it was so much simpler before.  Hope this helps you.

     

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  • by Tmotj,

    Tmotj Tmotj Oct 24, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Tmotj
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    Oct 24, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Tmotj

    Since making the innitial post nothing has changed. My podcast app - which I LOVED  before is still crashing after just a few seconds. Puting it in airplane mode does seem to allow it to stay on without crashing, but unless I have a podcast already downloaded it is not working. I started using Stitcher as an alternative to the native podcast app and I am able to listen to my podcasts that way.  I am not thrilled with Stitcher, I liked my old podcast app. Now it has a new user interface and is harder to use, so I may keep Stitcher until Apple improves their version and stops this crazy crashing business with their own app on their own system. I am a Mac guy all the way, but have been dissapointed by this turn of events.

    Thanks for your input and comments.

  • by rsn8887,

    rsn8887 rsn8887 Nov 2, 2015 5:49 PM in response to Tmotj
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    Nov 2, 2015 5:49 PM in response to Tmotj

    Exact same problem here, running Podcasts 2.3, IOS 9.1 on an Iphone 4,1. It works fine if I turn Wi-Fi off, like one of the posters suggested here, but as long is Wi-Fi is ON, the app crashes within a few seconds of starting it. Sometimes I can barely play a few seconds of a podcast before it crashes. It throws a Jetsam Event in Diagnostics everytime it crashes, in case this helps anybody.

  • by gatsby101,

    gatsby101 gatsby101 Nov 2, 2015 10:08 PM in response to Earthtripgirl
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    Nov 2, 2015 10:08 PM in response to Earthtripgirl

    I've found the WiFi trick to be helpful, but still struggle to understand why they haven't devised a fix alreadY. Surely thousands upon thousands are affected, right?

     

    I too would like to hear why they thought shrinking and then cluttering the podcast list with redundant information was a good idea. Why do I need to see the text description every time? I can't see the tiles as clearly as before; and as for those descriptions, I already know what the podcast is about, which is why I subscribed. Baffling.

  • by Talonious,

    Talonious Talonious Nov 4, 2015 11:23 AM in response to Tmotj
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    Nov 4, 2015 11:23 AM in response to Tmotj

    This might have been broken and fixed in 9.0.2, but appears to be broken again in 9.1.  I can listen to existing podcasts in Airplane mode, but there appears to be a problem when the app is downloading new podcasts.

  • by fishie_squishie,

    fishie_squishie fishie_squishie Mar 5, 2016 8:33 AM in response to Tmotj
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    Mar 5, 2016 8:33 AM in response to Tmotj

    ¿How can this post be marked as solved when the entire thread is one big repetition of "This has not been solved"?