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Q: How to Get iPhone Podcasts App to Download Podcasts Automatically Via USB or Via Wifi?

Hi,


How to get the iPhone Podcasts app to download podcasts automatically via USB or via Wi-Fi? (in advance when at home, not on the go via mobile data)?


What I repeatedly find is that when I open the Podcasts app on iPhone (which I use exclusively when jogging outside) that it has often not downloaded episodes of podcasts that have been available for a while and have long been downloaded on my MacBook Pro (in iTunes). The Podcasts app shows them with cloud symbol and the starts to download them via mobile data.


The iPhone is synced to the iTunes library of the MacBook Pro, and the settings of iTunes are set to sync podcasts, specifically to "automatically include all unplayed episodes of selected podcasts" (and the podcasts in questions are ticked, of course). The iPhone is connected to the MacBook Pro essentially all the time (USB connected iPhone stand). The general setting of iTunes it is to "automatically sync when this iPhone is connected" (and "sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi"is also enabled).


Based on these setting, I would expect that the iPhone will sync (download) all episodes that are newly downloaded and unplayed episodes corresponding to what is on the iTunes on the MacBook Pro. It does not do that, however.


Further, the iPhone is automatically connected to my home or office Wi-Fi all day. Even if the USB/iTunes sync does not work, the Podcasts app on the iPhone itself could download the new and unplayed episodes of my podcasts via Wi-Fi (I mean from the Internet/RSS feed, not from iTunes). But the Podcasts app evidentially does not do that either...

Essentially, what I would like to achieve is that the iPhone Podcasts app automatically downloads new episodes of my podcasts when at home (via Wi-Fi or via USB), not download them when I am outside using mobile data (I have cap of my mobile data and it is generally slow here).


Can someone help me with the setup?
Thank you for any help!

iPhone 6 Plus

Posted on May 30, 2016 11:29 PM

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