Podcast App issues - Apple Community
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/25279928827.05.2021 · Then completely deleted the Apple Podcast app off the phone. Rebooted the phone. Then reloaded the app from the app store. Then started re-following my podcasts. So far, so good. Just more work than necessary. If anybody from Apple is following this (doubtful), you got a couple of real problems with the Podcast App. Podcasts ain't that hard.
iPhone podcasts not working? - Apple Community
discussions.apple.com › thread › 7019425Apr 30, 2015 · iPhone podcasts not working? I have had the same podcasts for a while and all were downloading automatically and working well until about a week ago. Now, I can't manually download or anything. The podcast will show as "preparing to download" and then appears to be working and I don't get any errors. Just sits in the preparing stage for days now.