iOS 11 podcast autoplay

<< I usually listen to multiple episodes of one podcast then the next week I may move on to another podcast and listen to several episodes from that one,

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If enough people make it clear they want a return of autoplay in tha Listen Now and Shows pages

at www.apple.com/feedback perhaps Apple will re-add it. The iOS 11 Podcasts version only permits autoplay within a Station.

<<There is currently no option to limit the station to downloaded episodes.

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In (below) iPhone>Settings>Podcasts Only New would be you safest bet to prevent excess use of mobile data. Turning off mobile data will assure it will use none. I use when traveling overseas to keep from blowing through the liomits on my local SIM card.

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Your best bet may be to search YouTube when unfamiliar with apps and getting the basics. It seems there is always someone there trying to show us how to open a box.

When I look in the Listen now mode my podcast app correctly states there are 10 unplayed episodes in my “Ticket Podcast”

However, when I look at the station I created it incorrectly says there are “no episodes”

1. Is “Ticket Podcast” a single Subscription or a Station? If a Station, how many subscriptions in it?

2. What is your Download Episodes choice in IPhone>Settings>Podcast?

3. Would you post a screenshot of your Library page?

Exploring alternatives ...

So far, a simple app called "Castro" seems to work. As opposed to Apple Podcasts, with its hidden, unstable "Play Next" queue, Castro is built around its play-next list. Very easy to construct and view a nice long queue of episodes, easily edited, to play continuously on a long drive, without interruptions and constant tending. And, unlike Podcasts, the list doesn't go all to **** if you insert something, like an NPR newscast, and then resume your list. Integrates with my Bluetoothed car radio, starting up where I left off when I start the car -- good for bathroom breaks -- and giving me forward, back, pause, next controls on the radio buttons. Pauses for phone calls and GPS voice directions.

We'll see. Happy to reconsider Podcasts if Apple gets its act together.

Echoing the complaints about this feature being removed. Doesn’t make sense to take this away and for those of us that drive and listen to podcast, it is a safety measure apple has gotten rid of by requiring users to manually play next. A true hurdle to Podcasts binging.

One-click autoplay is not available in Listen Now or Shows. It only works in Stations. If you want to play current episodes of your subscriptions in a particular order, you are need to create one or more Stations, adding all or some of your subscriptions to it, them set the autoplay order for it.

To autoplay the Episodes in a Staion in sequence, 0pen the Station on the Library page, click on the top Episode, then click Play. Note in the Station Settings you can sort Episodes from Oldest to Newest, the reverse or manually.

The best reference for the Podcasts app is the iBooks version of the “iPhone User Guide for iOS 11”, pages 917-928.. Search for it in the iBooks app. A smaller PDF version is the "iPhone 7 User Guide for iOS 11," pages 315-318, at

http://file.iphone7manuals.com/iPhone-7-User-Guide-for-iOS-11.pdf

Thanks, I've tried it, but it doesn't resolve the problem. That appears to control what the app downloads when the podcast feed updates. The problem is that if the feed updates, but you haven't downloaded the new episode yet, then the new episode will still appear in the station and the app will stop playing and display an error message when it gets to that episode.

I'm trying Overcast. So far it's working much better.

I think it *****. I download several daily episodes then go for a walk. No I will be stopping every 8-13 minutes just to move to the next episode. Apple is loosing me as a customer next time around. Forcing updates, pushing products. Seems like its all about Apple, not Apple customers.

Click the bar at the bottom of the app indicating the app being played, then scroll to the bottom of the page where you’ll see Up Next.

In the iOS 11 Podcasts version Autoplay is the function that plays podcasts in sequence and it only works within a Station. Stations can be created in iTunes or the Podcasts app. Even with both iTunes and the Podcasts app closed, when you plug the iPhone into the computer via USB, they will sync any new Stations and Episodes contained on either device.

Once the Stations are populated with Shows, their Episodes can be updated on the iPhone by swishing vertically downward in the center of the Library page.

To autoplay the Episodes within a Station in sequence, open the Station on the Library page, click on the top Episode, then click Play. Note in the Station Settings you can sort its Episodes from Oldest to Newest, the reverse or manually.

Trying to make this work fir me...

Ok i created a station for my subscribed podcast.

There is an option for “sort order” so i chose newest to oldest so that the list would show the latest downloads.

But... sort order is also ”play” order, so niw it wants to play backward from newest to okdest.

Is there a remedy?

(I’ve not yet played thru an entire episode to witness the station automatically playing the next episode in sequence, which is what originally led me here)

The remedy is to choose Oldest to Newest. The Play and View Order cannot be different with this version. To autoplay the Episodes within a Station in sequence, open the Station on the Library page, click on the top Episode, then click Play. Note in the Station Settings you can sort its Episodes from Oldest to Newest, the reverse or manually.

Most of us have several Shows within a Station. I have 83 Shows distributed amongst 4 Stations.

Found a great podcast player that works great. Continuous play. It’s called Castro. It cost $3.99 but worth it. Now I feel so relieved. I have so many podcasts I listen to now I feel organized again.

I solved my problems with the iOS 11 Podcast app. I switched to Overcast. Overcast is actually designed by someone who uses podcasts on a daily basis.

Obviously no one at Apple can actually design anything useful nowadays.