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Some of the main factors that Apple Podcasts uses to order your Search results include: Like charts, while ratings, reviews, and shares help indicate a podcast’s newness, popularity, and quality, they are not factored into Search results. Experience The Rest Is History’s unforgettable mix of humor, history, and storytelling. I am a university professor who likes to read books or articles. I’ve hesitated to move to the podcast platforms, but I’ve done so out of necessity. Over the last few years I have found mainstream news to be very shallow in their reporting of current events.

As a former devoted 6:00 news watcher, I have switched to the podcast platform to get in depth information that is reliable and based on facts instead of propaganda or lies. There have been a few podcasts that I came across in my search and found to be “okay” but the Meidas+ stands out above and beyond my expectation! What I appreciate is that Ben is a former attorney who has trial experience. He knows how to research information and is able to understand the legal ramifications of what is happening in our current US political chaos. He is not afraid to state the facts and can do so with clarity. With everything that is going on in the world it is tough for me to make sense out of nonsense - and for Ben and his team, they do an amazing job of making...

I have found this podcast to be my favorite! I cannot recommend it enough. Well worth the switch from the “nightly news” format. I am a university professor who likes to read books or articles. I’ve hesitated to move to the podcast platforms, but I’ve done so out of necessity. Over the last few years I have found mainstream news to be very shallow in their reporting of current events.

I have found this podcast to be my favorite! I cannot recommend it enough. Well worth the switch from the “nightly news” format. While I generally find the app to be clear and easy to use, there are some critical bugs with downloads. For serial shows which have to be played in order, while the podcast creator can designate that as the intended play order, the Podcasts app doesn’t recognize it for downloads. There is no option to download the “next” set of episodes, but there is a bug with the strings.

When you switch to, for example, “download 3 most recent” and then go back, the string on the outer menu is “download next 3 episodes”. You can go in and out of the menu and it will change back and forth between “next” and “most recent”. In any case, whichever you choose, it just downloads the most recent. I’m on episode 3 of a story podcast that is marked as needing to be listened to in order, and download “next/most recent 3” downloads episodes 11-13. There is simply no way to get it to download 3-5, or even just 3. This is frustrating enough that I’m deducting 2 stars.

There is another flaw that has caused me to remove another star. You cannot mark a podcast series as “played up to this point”. If I’ve listened to a series on another app and am hundreds of episodes in, I can’t switch over to this app and mark those first 200 as already played. I have to do every episode manually, which is infuriating if I, again, want to listen to episodes in order. While I generally find the app to be clear and easy to use, there are some critical bugs with downloads. For serial shows which have to be played in order, while the podcast creator can designate that as the intended play order, the Podcasts app doesn’t recognize it for downloads.

There is no option to download the “next” set of episodes, but there is a bug with the strings. When you switch to, for example, “download 3 most recent” and then go back, the string on the outer menu is “download next 3 episodes”. You can go in and out of the menu and it will change back and forth between “next” and “most recent”. In any case, whichever you choose, it just downloads the most recent. I’m on episode 3 of a story podcast that is marked as needing to be listened to in order, and download “next/most recent 3” downloads episodes 11-13. There is simply no way to get it to download 3-5, or even just 3.

This is frustrating enough that I’m deducting 2 stars. There is another flaw that has caused me to remove another star. You cannot mark a podcast series as “played up to this point”. If I’ve listened to a series on another app and am hundreds of episodes in, I can’t switch over to this app and mark those first 200 as already played. I have to do every episode manually, which is infuriating if I, again, want to listen to episodes in order. Apple Podcasts (known as simply Podcasts in Apple operating systems) is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc.

for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows.[1] Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, visionOS, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. Apple was an early promoter of podcasts (the term is a portmanteau of Apple's iPod music player and "broadcast"),[2] and added playback functionality to iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and built a directory... Apple Podcasts had an estimated 28 million American monthly listeners and 23.8% market share in March 2021, the first month it fell behind Spotify Podcasts as the top podcasting platform in the United States.

This was a decrease from Apple's 34% market share in 2018.[7] In 2025 it was reported that Apple Podcasts had regained market share and had a 37.4% market share in the U.S. based on views and downloads of the top 250 podcasts in the U.S. This placed it ahead of Youtube (23.2%) and Spotify (15.2%) with all three combined having a 75.8% market share. Though it was also noted that Apple Podcasts Auto-downloads by default.[8] A standalone Apple Podcasts app was announced at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of iOS 6.

Apple released the app early on the App Store on June 26, 2012. It adds a new "stations" feature for discovering new podcasts.[9] It is a standard app on CarPlay. To listen to explicit episodes, sign in. Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes, and get the latest updates. Podcasts are audio or video shows that you can play and download. You can find podcasts on just about anything, including science, news, comedy, and more.

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