For all the new features coming to each iteration of iOS for the iPhone, you know what I wish Apple would fix? The god damn podcast app. Podcasts are as popular as ever, so it’s difficult to understand why the Apple podcast app continues to suck so much. I don’t care what amazing thing Apple shows every WWDC; please simply fix the stuff that are still broken to this day.
I am sick and tired of the podcast app not remembering my playlist. It seems that adding more than 10 shows to the upcoming list is enough to flummoxed it. The app remembers for a time, until one day you go to listen to a show and everything is lost. It would usually queue up a podcast I’ve already listen to, with nothing to follow. I would begrudgingly build out the playlist again, awaiting the next rug pull.
What I hate even more is when the podcast app lose my place on a particular show completely. How the heck is this acceptable? Is system memory so precious that the OS can’t spare a few bytes to keep the place on a podcast? It doesn’t seem to have any problem leaving songs where I left off in the music app! I am this close to switching to a third-party podcast app, if I weren’t so lazy.
So keep your customizable home screens and shared iCloud photo libraries. When is the podcast app getting revised? It’s been broken as I’ve described above for years now!
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