How to customize the podcasts app on your iphone

Although in Spain they have not yet reached the importance and recognition they deserve, podcasts continue to grow in audience as they constitute an ideal format to increase our knowledge, keep us informed or simply entertain ourselves on all kinds of topics and also, do it anytime, anywhere, without depending on schedules. Therefore, if you are starting with the Podcasts app on your iPhone or iPad, you will want to know how to customize its settings to benefit from the best possible experience.

Customizing Podcasts

The Apple Podcasts application, now also available for the  Watch with watchOS 5, has a series of adjustments that allow us to choose which episodes to download to listen offline, or adjust the range of advance or rewind in an episode to skip those parts that do not interest us, among others.

1. Open the Settings app on your iOS device Scroll down and select the Podcasts section

   

   In the section "Episode downloads" you can activate the automatic deletion of episodes already listened to, in order to free up space on your device, as well as choose which episodes you want to download automatically (only new ones, unplayed ones, or none). Plus, you can choose when your list of new available episodes is updated (hourly, every six hours, every day, every week, or manually).

   

   If you go down a little further, in the “Forward / backward buttons” section, you can customize the time range in which an episode goes forward or backwards by pressing the corresponding button. You can choose several options between ten seconds and one minute.

   

   And if you use the controls of the car or headphones such as the AirPods, you can also customize if you use their controls to go forward or backward in the episode you are listening to, or to play the next or previous episode to the current one.

   

In addition, as you may have seen in the first captures, you can also activate the options:

• Synchronize podcasts, to keep your listeners synchronized between all your devices. Only download via Wi-Fi, to avoid scares on your data rate. Continuous playback, so that when an episode ends, the next available episode automatically starts playing