Follow and play shows in Apple Podcasts on iPhone and iPad

Follow your favorite podcasts and control how you listen with playback speed, skip, and more.

  • Follow podcasts on iPhone or iPad
  • Unfollow podcasts on iPhone or iPad
  • Cull the order that episodes play
  • Filter seasons and episodes
  • Speed upward or deadening down a podcast episode
  • Set a slumber timer for a podcast episode

How to follow podcasts on iPhone or iPad

When you lot follow a podcast, new episodes automatically download to your device. You lot can also get notified when new episodes are released.

  1. Open up the Podcasts app.
  2. Browse or search for a prove. Need aid finding the shows that yous like?
  3. Tap the show to see its information page.
  4. Tap the Follow button .

To find the podcasts that y'all follow or the ones that you've manually added through a URL, become to the Library tab. So tap Shows and tap Followed.

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How to unfollow podcasts on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open up the Podcasts app.
  2. Go to the Library tab and tap Shows. Then tap Followed.
  3. Tap a show to come across its information page.
  4. Tap the More button.
  5. Tap Unfollow Evidence.
    the Unfollow Show option

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How to cull the order that episodes play

When you follow a podcast, yous can play episodes in order, beginning with the newest or oldest episode.

  1. Open up the Podcasts app.
  2. Go to the Library tab, and then tap Shows.
  3. Tap the testify to see its information page.
  4. Tap the More button in the elevation-right corner, then tap Settings.
  5. Tap Oldest To Newest or Newest To Oldest.
    the Episode Order options

How to filter seasons and episodes

For podcasts that have seasons, you can filter by flavor. If you follow a podcast, or have saved or downloaded episodes, you can also filter to run into only your unplayed episodes, downloads, and more than.

  1. Open up the Podcasts app.
  2. Go to the Library tab, and then tap Shows.
  3. Tap the show to see its information page.
  4. Tap Seasons or Episodes, so choose a filter.
    the Season and Episode filter options

How to speed up or tedious down a podcast episode

  1. Open the Podcasts app and outset listening to an episode.
  2. Tap the mini player at the bottom of the screen to aggrandize the audio controls.
  3. Tap the Playback Speed button to cull a speed.
    the Playback Speed button in the audio player

How to set a sleep timer for a podcast episode

  1. Open the Podcasts app and offset listening to an episode.
  2. Tap the mini player at the bottom of the screen to expand the audio controls.
  3. Swipe up and tap the Sleep Timer button to cull the amount of time that you want the episode to play.

the Sleep Timer button in the audio player

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