Apple Podcasts

Holiday season is coming to a close and those days off will be a great time to catch up on your favorite podcasts. Here are some of the best podcast apps available for Apple's iOS.

Apple has indeed purchased Swell, a personalized news radio application, the company confirmed on Tuesday, after promptly shutting removing the free download from the iOS App Store.

A number of iOS device owners on Thursday are experiencing major issues with Apple's first-party Podcasts app, saying the title is unusable due to constant hangs and crashes.

An update to Apple’s native Podcasts application for iPhone and iPad brings Siri integration to the app, as well as support for its new CarPlay mode for in-vehicle entertainment systems. You can can now voice command Podcasts, essentially, or interact with it from your in-car interface with your physical or touchscreen console controls. The app update also improves browsing with the…

Along with the release of iOS 7.1, Apple on Monday issued updates for a number of its iOS applications, with Remote, GarageBand, Logic Remote, and Podcasts all receiving attention.

I love podcasts. When I’m stuck on a train, cooking in the kitchen or running around my local park, they offer a wonderful escape and explore many of my favorite hobbies, interests and pastimes. There are an overwhelming number of podcasts to choose from – it’s never been easier to produce a show and share it with the world – so keeping up with them all can feel like a full-time job....

Along with the major updates to headline apps such as the iWork and iLife suites, Apple has refreshed some of its other offerings with designs in line with iOS 7. Find My iPhone, iTunes Movie Trailers, and Podcasts have all been updated with new icons and cleaner UIs; the new Podcasts app in particular sees a total overhaul following a slight tweak to the excessively literal visual metaphors found in the original release....

Amid the deluge of product announcements and software updates, Apple snuck out new versions of its free Find My iPhone, Podcasts and iTunes Trailers apps, redressing the titles in iOS 7 regalia.

Apple on Monday announced the iTunes Store now has more than one billion podcast subscriptions, and is celebrating the milestone by highlighting some of the most popular content since the medium hit the digital storefront in 2005.

As more and more of our data moves to Apple’s iCloud and other server-based services, it’s hard to believe that just a few years ago we relied solely on iTunes to keep our devices up-to-date with our content libraries. Even though iTunes’ role in managing iOS devices has diminished, Apple hasn’t completely abandoned syncing. Here’s a guide to doing it right....

With the Podcasts 1.2 update released Thursday, Apple’s own app is now on par with other iOS podcasting apps. One area in which it really excels now is automatic downloads of new episodes.

Improvements to the app are long overdue since the Podcasts feature was broken out from iTunes as a standalone app last fall.

After a slew of complaints from users, Apple has just updated the Podcasts app for iOS. Gone away are the skeuomorphic UI elements that were prominent during the app’s original release. Instead, Apple has trimmed the UI down to its more essential elements. Podcasts 1.2 is available in the App Store for free right now. The update includes some new features, such as On-The-Go playlists, Custom Stations, iCloud synchronization and more. Here are the full notes:

Apple's Podcasts app has long been a horrid example of Scott Forstall's most epic crime as a software designer: Skeuomorphism. Why do I need a graphic of a reel-to-reel tape machine in my app? HOW CLEVER! Get it? Yes, radio used to be recorded and edited on reels of tape, but that design reference doesn't do anything good for consumers. Apple has updated the app, and the catastrophe in the image above has been addressed....

Apple's Podcasts app for iOS was probably one of its most controversial releases — thousands of users have complained in the iTunes Store about bugs, lag, and a UI that takes Apple's skeuomorphic tendencies to the extreme. The company is trying to make things right with jilted users with the latest update to the app, which is available to download now. While the app functions largely the same as the previous version, there are some crucial changes for users to take note of. For starters, Apple has...

Apple on Thursday rolled out a new version of its iOS Podcasts app, bringing the ability to create personalized podcast stations with automatic updating.

Apple has just issued Podcasts version 1.2, which brings a long list of improvements to the iOS app. Among the changes are a new feature that lets users generate their own custom playlists with any podcasts they choose, with auto-updating of new episodes for each. Stations are stored in iCloud and synced across devices, and users can choose to start with either the most recent episode or oldest…

The one big omission in Apple’s reimagined Podcasts app is the ability to organize and create playlists for your podcasts. If this feature is still important to you, you may want to consider one of these third-party alternatives.

iOS’s Music app, much like iTunes on computers, has traditionally been the destination for all audio-related content—you’d go there to find the music synced from your iTunes library, plus podcasts and audiobooks....

Following the public release of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 earlier today, Apple has pushed a host of notable updates for many of its additional iOS apps in the App Store. Apps like Podcasts got iCloud sync and iOS 6 support, while smaller updates have been seeded to bring simple iOS 6 compatibility. Other popular apps from the iLife and iWork iOS suites received updates today too. Here’s a list of all the iOS app updates Apple released today:

Apple on Wednesday issued updates for nearly all of its iOS software to add support and new features taking advantage of the newly released iOS 6 operating system, as well as the forthcoming iPhone 5.

Apple's Podcasts app for iOS hasn't been one of the company's best-received pieces of software — questionable interface aside, the app came with plenty of bugs, making users questions why they should use it over alternate solutions. Fortunately, Apple has heeded complaints and just pushed out a new version to the iTunes App Store. Probably of most importance are "significant improvements to performance and stability," though Apple also tweaked some more specific sections in the app, as well. The app...

Released on Tuesday, the design of Apple's new Podcasts app has struck a chord with some, and Cult of Mac has found a reason why. It appears that the app's Now Playing interface is heavily influenced by the classic Braun TG 60 reel-to-reel tape recorder, crafted by industrial design legend Dieter Rams in the early '60s. When you put the two side by side, it's difficult to deny the resemblance. And, as Cult of Mac points out, it's not all that surprising either — Apple designers, including Jony Ive...

I'm so guilty of forgetting about podcasts. Though I'm subscribed to several, they tend to get lost in the chaos of iTunes, Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, and all the other places I'm turning to for media. But these shows have been given a little breathing room. Prior to the proper release of iOS 6, Apple has launched a standalone app for audio and video Podcasts. Podcasts lets you do everything you were doing in the podcasts section of iTunes, but now it's siloed in a separate, easy to use app. Plus, there...

We heard a few weeks ago that Apple was preparing to remove Podcasts from the iTunes Store and the default iOS Music app, but we didn't expect that to happen until iOS 6 launched. Somewhat surprisingly, Apple has decided to go ahead and launch its new dedicated Podcasts app for the iPhone and iPad today in the App Store. Similar to iBooks, the app features both a podcast playback and management component as well as a "store" that flips around from the back. The podcast looks fairly identical to its...

Developers running the iOS 6 beta Apple released earlier this month noticed that, among the many changes present in this new version, iTunes no longer certain content...

Apple on Tuesday launched a new first-party application in the iOS App Store called "Podcasts," devoted to discovering and downloading Internet content.

It wasn’t long after the iOS 6 developer beta first started hitting devices that people started noticing something peculiar about its iTunes app — the iTunes U, Audiobooks, and Podcast sections had disappeared. That prompted quite a bit of speculation that each of those content types would get their own standalone app when the update launched, and now Apple has seemingly confirmed those inklings by releasing a new Podcasts app for iDevices running iOS 5.1 or later.