Pause Podcast to listen to it later - starts over instead of keeping my place

Podcasts remember your playback position, so you can start listening to a podcast on your iPhone, pause it when you get home, and pick up right where you left off on your Apple TV (4th generation). ​
By default, the Podcasts app syncs subscriptions, stations, and playback position between your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV (4th generation).

My first suggestion would be to reposition the scrubber in the place that you want in the podcast, quit the Podcast app and restart your iPhone. Does the issue persist?
If so, can you take a look at the questions below and reply back with your comments?

• Have you backed up your iPhone 6?
• Have you updated your iOS to the latest version? (Your profile indicates iOS 9.2).
• Is this behavior only happening with one podcast, or does it happen with all of your podcasts?
• Are you syncing podcasts between devices? Is it possible that you started at the beginning of this podcast on another device?

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Last Modified: Sep 24, 2016

This is happening to me too, and I agree that the issue started after I upgraded to iOS 10. I'm having some other issues with app too. Scrolling through my 'Unplayed Episodes' is glitchy and sometimes deletes episodes I haven't listened to yet, or will start to play one that I'm just trying to scroll past, which messes with my 'Up Next' playlist.

But the pausing issue is the most annoying, because it's happening most times I pause an episode now. Then I'll resume play in the car or something and it's back to the beginning, and I have no idea where it left off previously. To the mods reading this, I would really appreciate a fix for this - it seems to be affecting multiple people who upgraded to 10 and it makes listening to the app in the car really difficult when you can't take the time to scrub through the episode to find your place. I also find that getting a call will do the same thing. If i'm listening to a podcast in the car, and it's interrupted by a call, when I end the call the episode will go back to the start. It's really frustrating.

Is this issue still persisting with you? I'm having the same problem all of a sudden. Hoping for a fix.