iPhone Podcasts Deleting Themselves

[I Don't Know 123456789]

Ever since getting iOS 13.2 podcasts keep being deleted on my phone.

This is a horrible bug.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

Podcasts has been broken forever on iOS 13. I’ve just started using Spotify for my podcasts.

 

[levander]

There Is a setting you can turn on and off the auto-deletes podcasts after they have been played.

And there’s a setting that is like, “keep only the most recent 3 episodes”.

The podcasts that are being deleted aren’t because of those two settings are they?

You don’t say much about what podcasts are being deleted.

 

[Der Keyser]

Podcasts in IOS13 is just broken past usability. Some gets deleted, some autoplays, some not, sync to watch is completely useless because of unrealiability. Accidental play of a podcast (a couple of secs) deletes it from your watch if you were so lucky to have it synced there in the first place. The list goes on and on.
This and the Mail app.... IOS13 is by far the worst release ever in my opinion.

 

[levander]

The problem I have with the Podcasts app is that podcasts are not auto-downloading like I have them set to unless I open the Podcast app and then open the show I want to listen to.

Particularly annoying because I am almost always using the Podcasts app in my car via CarPlay and don’t have a WiFi connection to my internet. So now I have the Podcasts app set to block downloads over cellular because I’d go way over my monthly data allowance if I didn’t.

And iOS 13 introduced a bug where my phone isn’t auto-connecting to my car radio any more. I have to reach into my pocket to hit the home button on my phone to wake it up, then hit a couple of buttons on my radio to get it to connect to the iPhone.

So, when I get in my car these are my procedures to start listening to a podcast:

iOS 12: Get in car, turn on engine, fasten seat belt, phone connects to radio without me doing anything, start hitting buttons on radio screen to find podcast I want.

iOS 13: Get in car, turn on engine, fasten seat belt, remember how crummy iOS 13 is, reach in pocket to hit home button on phone to wake it up, on radio screen hit its home button then the phone icon then a list pops up with only my phone’s name on it and I click on its name. So now I start hitting buttons on my radios screen to find podcast I want to listen to. Only weirdly no new podcasts are downloaded. So then I remember how crummy iOS 13 is and I pull my phone out of my pocket and go into my iPhone’s setting up to connect to my home WiFi network, which disconnects me from CarPlay but allows me to download podcasts without going over my monthly data limit.... Blah, blah, blah. Eventually I get it up and going and can drive off...

It’s like Apple doesn’t even realize we rely on their products to get stuff done in our daily lives. They just think it’s okay for their stuff to stop working.

 

[Akrapovic]

Use Overcast. I know it's no the answer you want, but it will improve your podcast experience.

 

[Der Keyser]

Welcome to IOS13. It’s been a disaster.
My podcast app suffers the same “not syncing issue” which then extends to My Watch.

ohh I have regretted upgrading to IOS13

 

[levander]

Use Overcast. I know it's no the answer you want, but it will improve your podcast experience.

I’ve heard Overcast is good software. But $10/year or having to deal with ads just seems like a lot for podcast software.

And even if $10/month didn’t seem too high, I don’t want a mysterious charge popping up on my credit card bill every year that I forget what it’s for and I have to go track it down.

I may go with Overcast in the future. It’s certainly a viable option. But for right now I’m considering switch platforms away from Apple, and the Podcast app is a good reminder of if I stick with Apple what I’ll have to deal with. If they do fix the app, I want to be there when they do just to get an idea of how bad a job Apple is okay with doing with their software.

 

[Shirasaki]

sort of unrelated, but one of my games stops working under cellular data in iOS 13. Worked fine in iOS 12. Wifi is fine. Not sure if this is the game problem or iOS itself. Either way, bad experience.

It’s like Apple doesn’t even realize we rely on their products to get stuff done in our daily lives. They just think it’s okay for their stuff to stop working.

And sloppy engineering. Not always, but those antenna gates, touch disease, bending gate, keyboard issues, battery issues, all of those Are the sign of sloppy or bad engineering. Sad.

 

[Akrapovic]

I’ve heard Overcast is good software. But $10/year or having to deal with ads just seems like a lot for podcast software.

And even if $10/month didn’t seem too high, I don’t want a mysterious charge popping up on my credit card bill every year that I forget what it’s for and I have to go track it down.

I may go with Overcast in the future. It’s certainly a viable option. But for right now I’m considering switch platforms away from Apple, and the Podcast app is a good reminder of if I stick with Apple what I’ll have to deal with. If they do fix the app, I want to be there when they do just to get an idea of how bad a job Apple is okay with doing with their software.

I understand but there’s not really ads. Yes technically they are, but it’s actually recommended podcasts that appear at the bottom of one screen. It’s hard to explain and I’m on a phone so will do screenshots later to illustrate. The “ads” are so non-ad like that if you pay the $10 then there’s a toggle switch to turn them back on if you want. I’ve found new podcasts through that before.

It’s free so give it a try. Hopefully you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I agree that Apple needs to improve its current app, but I gave up on that one a long time ago lol.

and I agree with the random charges comment. So many subscriptions at random times now. It gets a bit much

 

[levander]

And sloppy engineering. Not always, but those antenna gates, touch disease, bending gate, keyboard issues, battery issues, all of those Are the sign of sloppy or bad engineering. Sad.

I don’t know what all of those are. But realize, with developing computers, you are going to have issues. Antennae gate was embarrassing. But my sister had an iPhone 5 or 6 (forget which one it was now) and she never signed up for the free bumper and used the phone just fine for a couple of years before she broke it. It never bothered her. And in the very next iteration of the phone, Apple fixed it.

The butterfly keyboard thing was absolutely ridiculous. No idea why Apple didn’t fix that terrible design way earlier. So the computer has to be 0.3 inches wider or whatever it was. So what. What would you rather have, 0.3 inches narrower or a keyboard that works?

If Apple handled all their issues like they handled antennae gate, I would have no problem with them.

 

[Akrapovic]

Screenshot of the ad in overcast. It isn't animated, and tapping it opens it within Overcast, not another screen. So it's not like an iAd or similar banner ad. This is the only screen it appears on. If you use the app whilst driving, for example, then you'll never see the ad as it doesn't appear in the other menus.

I actually like it. I've found new podcasts using it. Each to their own, but I'd absolutely try Overcast.