{"id":33167,"date":"2021-07-19T16:57:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33167"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:32:35","slug":"new-apple-podcasts-app-still-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/new-apple-podcasts-app-still-unreliable\/","title":{"rendered":"New Apple Podcasts App Still Unreliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/07\/apple-podcasts-reliability-problem-is-turning-into-an-image-problem\/\">Dan Moren<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmoren\/status\/1416099928951111680\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/07\/apple-podcasts-reliability-problem-is-turning-into-an-image-problem\/\"><p>Apple, the de facto leader in podcast discovery, seems to have screwed up what was once its biggest asset in favor of trying to capitalize on a new feature.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when Apple started rolling out the podcast subscription feature, it came with a (presumably unintended) side effect: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/05\/why-isnt-apple-podcasts-showing-you-the-latest-podcasts\/\">new podcast episodes sometimes don&rsquo;t show up<\/a>. Back in May, Jason speculated about some of the possible causes, the most likely culprit being Apple changing how it handles podcasts behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>But more than two months later, this problem persists.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I haven&rsquo;t seen any direct acknowledgment from Apple about this issue over the last two months, much less any indication of what went wrong and how it plans to fix it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/06\/apple-podcasts-not-showing-the-latest-podcasts\/\">Apple Podcasts Not Showing the Latest Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"new-apple-podcasts-app-still-unreliable-update-2021-08-09\">Update (2021-08-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1424777130743828484\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1424777130743828484\">\n<p>ATP fell out of Apple Podcasts search and API again. We&rsquo;ve changed nothing recently. Haven&rsquo;t even logged in.<\/p>\n<p>Still seeing constant missing-episode reports from other shows, too.<\/p>\n<p>In case you thought things were back to normal over at Apple Podcasts&#8230; they&rsquo;re still far from it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"new-apple-podcasts-app-still-unreliable-update-2021-09-08\">Update (2021-09-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/18\/22630517\/apple-podcasts-subscriptions-launch-dashboard\">Ashley Carman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reckless\/status\/1428028130518831108\">Nilay Patel<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/18\/22630517\/apple-podcasts-subscriptions-launch-dashboard\"><p>But in the months since Apple Podcasts&rsquo; announcement, podcasters say the platform has failed them in various ways. For a company that prides itself on functionality, design, and ease of use, the new backend&rsquo;s bungled launch is a mess. Podcasters say Apple Podcasts Connect, which they&rsquo;re required to use in order to take advantage of subscriptions, has a confusing interface that often leads to user error scenarios that have them pinging Apple at all hours of the day in a panic &mdash; one podcaster&rsquo;s entire show was seemingly archived until Apple stepped in to help and explain what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The updated app&rsquo;s been buggy since launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2021\/08\/the-mess-that-is-apple-podcasts-subscriptions\/\">Jason Snell<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsnell\/status\/1428040655725481984\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2021\/08\/the-mess-that-is-apple-podcasts-subscriptions\/\">\n<p>I talked to Apple reps about this back in June, and basically made all the points raised in the article. The weaknesses of Apple&rsquo;s initial subscription offering, most particularly the burdens placed on podcasters to use Apple&rsquo;s limited back-end tools, were apparent the moment the feature was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is, who at Apple decided this product was good enough to be released? Especially given the related changes made to the Podcast app that <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/05\/why-isnt-apple-podcasts-showing-you-the-latest-podcasts\/\">managed to break podcast updates<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/07\/apple-podcasts-reliability-problem-is-turning-into-an-image-problem\/\">serious and lasting way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotkali\/status\/1428086631249022977\">Jot Kailay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotkali\/status\/1428086631249022977\"><p>Podcast app Base features:<\/p>\n<ul><li>new episode list primary feature<\/li>\n<li>reliable syncing between devices &amp; homepods<\/li>\n<li>clear interface without duplication<\/li>\n<li>listened to episodes removed<\/li>\n<li>easy to subscribe \/ remove subscriptions<\/li>\n<li>widget shows current whats playing<\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>All<\/em> of this broken<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren (tweet): Apple, the de facto leader in podcast discovery, seems to have screwed up what was once its biggest asset in favor of trying to capitalize on a new feature. [&#8230;] Unfortunately, when Apple started rolling out the podcast subscription feature, it came with a (presumably unintended) side effect: new podcast episodes sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-19T20:57:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"2dcf0b93-cbec-45b4-b8ed-675da43d667f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-09-08T15:32:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALc8Lk8vsRbS47WddpD1mfw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[648,131,31,1837,26,30,1891,112],"class_list":["post-33167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-podcasts","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33559,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167\/revisions\/33559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}