I have to get rid of my frustration with the Apple Podcast App. I've been using the app for a few weeks now because I was hoping that it would integrate better into my new HomePod environment. I'm back to my beloved Castro just now. Why?
1. I want to hear the latest episode of my news podcast in the morning, which is updated every hour. It just never works. Never. Mostly old episodes from the previous evening are played. I've tried several times on automations, personal automations. No matter how I try to get this working, it just doesn't work.
2. It would be nice if you could also use podcasts as media types in HomeKit automations. But there is only music and radio. What did Apple think?
3. The highlight today was the voice command to a HomePod: Play my latest podcasts. And Siri replies: You have no unplayed episodes. And that even though I had already downloaded at least three fresh episodes in the app. Why is that not possible?
4. I had set up a station in the app that contained all the new episodes. It even worked so far. But the voice command to the HomePod to play this station then resulted in: I'm sorry. Podcast stations are no longer supported on HomePod.
5. The app is configured to only load new episodes. Suddenly, for some inexplicable reason, there are umpteen age-old episodes of some podcasts in the playlist. Who programmed this app at Apple Please? Who?
6. I have activated continuous playback in the settings app, but even that only works when it feels like it.
Since the sync between iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and iMac never really worked reliably anyway, I switched it off a a long time. So it cannot actually be that several devices get in each other's way.
This app is just so frustrating. Let them buy a smart app and then use it to improve their app. Others can do it too.
Please excuse my bad english. I translated this text from German with Google Translate.
1. I want to hear the latest episode of my news podcast in the morning, which is updated every hour. It just never works. Never. Mostly old episodes from the previous evening are played. I've tried several times on automations, personal automations. No matter how I try to get this working, it just doesn't work.
2. It would be nice if you could also use podcasts as media types in HomeKit automations. But there is only music and radio. What did Apple think?
3. The highlight today was the voice command to a HomePod: Play my latest podcasts. And Siri replies: You have no unplayed episodes. And that even though I had already downloaded at least three fresh episodes in the app. Why is that not possible?
4. I had set up a station in the app that contained all the new episodes. It even worked so far. But the voice command to the HomePod to play this station then resulted in: I'm sorry. Podcast stations are no longer supported on HomePod.
5. The app is configured to only load new episodes. Suddenly, for some inexplicable reason, there are umpteen age-old episodes of some podcasts in the playlist. Who programmed this app at Apple Please? Who?
6. I have activated continuous playback in the settings app, but even that only works when it feels like it.
Since the sync between iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and iMac never really worked reliably anyway, I switched it off a a long time. So it cannot actually be that several devices get in each other's way.
This app is just so frustrating. Let them buy a smart app and then use it to improve their app. Others can do it too.
Please excuse my bad english. I translated this text from German with Google Translate.