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iOS 14.6 Beta Brings Tweaks to Podcasts App Following Complaints
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I‘m not sure, but I think there was a behavior change in 14.5 when playing from the Latest Episodes area. I used to be able to sort Newest to Oldest of all episodes of all shows and autoplay a mix of different providers one after another. Now if I play Fresh Air it will jump to the next-to-last Fresh Air instead of going to the next latest other show in my queue. I don’t want to have to keep selecting a show and finding them one-by-one. Can anyone confirm that behavior change? What I really want are Smart Playlists where I could set up something like “Play Everything from Today” or “This Week” etc. Or create groups of shows like Finance or Sports or Music Shows and just play those.
Yes, more thought / testing is required, and listening to feedback and actually acknowledging feedback would be a good start!
To repeat what other have said, how can they stuff this up so badly. The entire reason I became invested in apple was because of podcasts back in the day of iPods. This is your founding technology your bread and butter.
I switched to Pocket Casts a few days after struggling with this brutal release. Not going back no matter what they do to it, I hate the way it looks and works.
Pocket Casts is simple and does the job.
And no way am I paying for even more subsciptions for podcasts, lol... Sorry Apple, you really blew this one in your never ending quest to have 30% of everything on the ecosystem.
Pocket Casts is simple and does the job.
And no way am I paying for even more subsciptions for podcasts, lol... Sorry Apple, you really blew this one in your never ending quest to have 30% of everything on the ecosystem.
Because they still haven't monetized it. Now they want their 30% from the podcast subscriptions.
Maybe they should have allowed this to be tested during the 8 bleeping betas of 14.5.
Where was this turnaround when we are still waiting for a working Music app for macOS 2 years later....?
Every time I open the app it "forgets" on what screen I have been the last time. It always falls back to "Play Now" (that's how it is translated to my language). So annoying.
The only thing I am interested is to see the list of most recent downloads when I open the app. So simple but the app can't do it. Every time I open it I need to navigate the menus again and again. The Play Now page is rather an obstacle imho.
The only thing I am interested is to see the list of most recent downloads when I open the app. So simple but the app can't do it. Every time I open it I need to navigate the menus again and again. The Play Now page is rather an obstacle imho.
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Hear hear. Apple has been rolling out new features in recent years that "almost" work. Apparently some of the features work for some, but not for others. But the lack of proper design is the worst thing. How do they think the podcast app should really work for users? Another good example is the people option in Photos. I don't understand the workflow they have thought of, and therefore haven't found a workflow that works.
Apple has a real opportunity as well as the resources to build solid, highly useable core apps that work not only on the device, but also Carplay as well. Why they don't is a real mystery to me.
I can't count how many times I've pulled over to set up the next pod I want to listen to in Carplay/Podcasts on a long drive.
I can't count how many times I've pulled over to set up the next pod I want to listen to in Carplay/Podcasts on a long drive.
There was a time more than a decade ago when Apple's own Podcasts app wasn't a pure play nuisance app. I can't imagine the zoo that must be their present Podcasts design team. Like others, I wonder if any of them have ever listened to a podcast. Meanwhile, iCatcher gets it. And if you want it your way, there's a good chance you can make it so.
Yes, they started changing that with iOS 14.0. Apple is all about ads and monetization these days, so they force the "Play Now" view with its "You Might Like" content suggestion feature, rather than just showing you what you actually want to see. Apple no longer cares about what you want, as long as it can make money from ads and subscription "services."
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Podcasts previous to this version was OK. This version is simply horrid. As bad as the utterly horrible, disgusting and broken "music" application, which I've replaced with "Picky".
Which application should I use to replace the terminally awful Podcasts now the children have broken it?
Podcasts previous to this version was OK. This version is simply horrid. As bad as the utterly horrible, disgusting and broken "music" application, which I've replaced with "Picky".
Which application should I use to replace the terminally awful Podcasts now the children have broken it?
Ah, that reminds me of the way Instagram changed the timeline to hide/show stuff. Or was it fb? Idk, I don’t use those apps but I find such practise really bad. It seems they don’t know how else to generate enough revenue other to trick and push people.
I am glad that I'm not crazy. I have Podcasts app on multiple devices including iOS 9.3.5(!), 12.3, and had 13 until just recently "updating" to 14.5 (and then mistakenly taking the 14.5.1 update shortly after -- bye bye battery life.). I do wish(hope?) the app developers are active users of the services they are developing and also suffer constraints of usage (like having small capacity devices and limited data plans) -- not just for "testing" but as actual day-to-day usage. I'm sure in some ways it would suck to be an Apple Dev and not always be using the the latest and greatest iPhone 8Million with 2000 Gigaterabytes of storage - with the best data plan you could afford but these are the struggles that many people face and the Podcast app has been one of the worst offenders in my experience for data usage and a subsequent need to manage individual episodes and such -- many an hour wasted with this kind of micromanagement. (Yes, I do turn off the Podcast for Cellular data just for this reason - lesson learned)
Anyway - always grateful for the efforts of course - good intentions are great - and listening to feedback is awesome.
Best wishes for the future of these updates!
Anyway - always grateful for the efforts of course - good intentions are great - and listening to feedback is awesome.
Best wishes for the future of these updates!