iTunes won't download podcasts

This did not work for me either, I just subscribed to several new podcasts which should result in download with no previous history to delete, still same behavior of unresponsive Get button. iTunes 12.6.0.100, Win7 SP1, Spybot anti-virus.

Great fix. Thank you. I had never used the "Feed" view option. It's great for catching up on old podcasts when I want to start from the beginning. A quick subscribe/unsubscribe gives me the full list of available episodes and I can tick them all easily from my Library instead of having to click "Get" on every episode in the Store. Maybe I don't care if they ever fix it... 😉

i tried the different fixes this morning. I too do not have the "show" option, but I do have the feed option, and the "feed" fix is working for me. Today I got a notice of an update, but it is for "12.6", no mention of .100+. I did a Google search and I'm told that .100 released March 25th is the latest version, so I am doing any updating now.

ℹ i just got out of a apple chat and this is what happened to me:

i just wanted to listen to 1 episode of a podcast show but not subscribe, for me also the "get" button isnt working in 12.6.

so while in chat; i discovered i had to:

1) subscribe to the podcast

2) go to the library for your podcasts; click the "feed" button to get the list of all the podcast shows from that creator

3) find the episode i wanted

4) click the "arrow cloud" button to download . . .

5) . . . it downloads

6) moved it to my "Podcast" playlist

i told this to the apple rep; and this seems like this is the only workaround until this issue is patched.

i havent "unsubscribed" just in case it all falls apart and i dont have my download anymore; so i didnt want to risk it.

hope this helps you!!

(im on a laptop using windows 10 as well)

In addition to sharing the same experience, I've also found that I cannot download more than a few episodes. In other words, if I subscribe to a podcast and want download 12 past episodes, I have to sit at the computer as ITunes 12.6 only allows me to click on 3 or 4 podcasts from the dozen past podcasts. I then have to wait to manually download another 3 episodes. Really sad.

Same thing for me with Windows 7. I can neither download podcast nor access the iTunes store.

I knew I should not have taken the update, especially given the fubar the last update caused with my iTouch, which caused me to have to click every single song in my library to put it back on my player. I am pretty sure I messed it up trying to use a backup library to do a restore.

I guess I should not be surprised by Apple not checking that its product works with a PC even though a fair # of iTunes users use PCs. I already do not buy music from them because it became a hassle at one point. It is obvious then iTunes does not beta test software updates (yes I know it is not just iTunes that does not do it).

I wonder when I will get tired of unsupported Apple software and ditch my iPlayer all together?

I am having the same issue as you. Unfortunately when I searched nothing else came up, so I have posted a duplicate topic on this issue. But this one looks like it has more attention. Hope that a fix is released ASAP!

Also, when I connect my iPhone it is not recognized so I wonder if this is a larger issue.

same issue for me too... 😠

Also have this problem, it is frustrating. I've found several people mention this, but no solutions. Anything we can do to fix this?

Not that I have found, also when I connect my iPhone to iTunes it says not recognized so this may be a bigger issue.

Hi, Can you please tell me how to contact Apple Support by email? I can't find an email option. They seem to want me to call now or later, I would rather email. Thank you.

If the Apple engineers identify the solution please share. I sent them an email describing the problem. If identify

a solution I'll share it on this thread.

This did not work for me. When I click Subscribe to a podcast nothing happens. No podcast starts to download.

duplicate posting.