#Pocket casts force refresh update

But Pocket Casts 7 has been in beta since last Fall, and they should never have shipped the update in this state. The latest update to the app notes that the firm has received a lot of negative feedback about the latest version and that it is committed to improving it.

Plus, there are new bugs, including one that impacts me every single day: The Google Cast/Chromecast icon that lets me play podcasts through a smart speaker just disappears from the Now Playing screen.Īnd sure, Pocket Cast may eventually get its act together. And yet, the latest version of Pocket Casts really messes up the basics, and it’s become unbearable to me to use it any further. It seems like most of that-if not all of that-should be true of any podcasting client. (Castbox also works with Amazon Echo/Alexa, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Apple Watch, and there’s even a PWA!) It also works everywhere that matters, including on Android, iPhone, and the web, key for a person like me who is always testing platforms. It found all of the podcasts I listen to (where many podcast apps did not) and it syncs them, and my progress, via the cloud. It automatically downloads new episodes and then automatically cleans up-and clearly denotes-those episodes I’ve already listened to. It’s clean and simple, and it works well. That said, this is an app choice I’m going to keep evaluating moving forward, as I believe there are some changes coming that could make me rethink things yet again.įirst, let me just get this out of the way: For now, I’ve chosen a solution called Castbox that appears to offer everything that I used to like about Pocket Casts. After several days of experiments, I think I’m ready to move away from Pocket Casts, which no longer meets my podcasting needs.

Pocket casts force refresh