Timer ruined by iOS 18
I have been using this podcast every night for over 10 years, and I wouldn’t be without it having sleep problems as I do.
My routine is to select a podcast, don’t press play, set the timer, plug in the earphone and go to sleep.
When I wake up all I have to do is press play on the earphone and the podcast will stop as per the timer, 10 minutes, 20 minutes etc.
Since IOS 18 the timer now starts counting down as soon as it is set, with or without the podcast playing. So my routine is useless, because it starts immediately not after pressing play, by the time I have gone to sleep the timer has finished and I haven’t even pressed the play button. This means that I have to pick up my device, which is quite bright to look at in the middle of the night just to set the timer.
Please change it back I rely on it EVERY night
My routine is to select a podcast, don’t press play, set the timer, plug in the earphone and go to sleep.
When I wake up all I have to do is press play on the earphone and the podcast will stop as per the timer, 10 minutes, 20 minutes etc.
Since IOS 18 the timer now starts counting down as soon as it is set, with or without the podcast playing. So my routine is useless, because it starts immediately not after pressing play, by the time I have gone to sleep the timer has finished and I haven’t even pressed the play button. This means that I have to pick up my device, which is quite bright to look at in the middle of the night just to set the timer.
Please change it back I rely on it EVERY night
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Bugged Since iOS update
Partially played episodes get marked as played. Have to search for missing episode, redownload it and find spot I left off that episode. Sooner or later an episode is going to go missing and I won’t notice. Time to switch platforms.
Downloads do not work properly
While I generally find the app to be clear and easy to use, there are some critical bugs with downloads. For serial shows which have to be played in order, while the podcast creator can designate that as the intended play order, the Podcasts app doesn’t recognize it for downloads. There is no option to download the “next” set of episodes, but there is a bug with the strings. When you switch to, for example, “download 3 most recent” and then go back, the string on the outer menu is “download next 3 episodes”. You can go in and out of the menu and it will change back and forth between “next” and “most recent”. In any case, whichever you choose, it just downloads the most recent. I’m on episode 3 of a story podcast that is marked as needing to be listened to in order, and download “next/most recent 3” downloads episodes 11-13. There is simply no way to get it to download 3-5, or even just 3. This is frustrating enough that I’m deducting 2 stars. There is another flaw that has caused me to remove another star. You cannot mark a podcast series as “played up to this point”. If I’ve listened to a series on another app and am hundreds of episodes in, I can’t switch over to this app and mark those first 200 as already played. I have to do every episode manually, which is infuriating if I, again, want to listen to episodes in order.
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