How to autoplay next episode of an Apple Podcast?

Based on this Apple article -> Follow and play shows in Apple Podcasts on iPhone and iPad

Follow and play shows in Apple Podcasts on iPhone and iPad - Apple Support (IN)

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How to choose the order that episodes play

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

1. Open the Podcasts app.
2. On your iPhone, go to the Library tab, then tap Shows. On your iPad, go to Library in the sidebar and tap Shows.
3. Tap the show to see its information page.
4. Tap the More button  in the top-right corner, then tap Settings.
5. Tap Oldest To Newest or Newest To Oldest.

• After an episode ends, the next episode of that podcast plays automatically. To turn this off, go to Settings > Podcasts, then turn off Continuous Playback.

So I'm still testing this out, but after searching through several forum posts I wanted to share the solution I've found in case it works for anyone else. It's...dumb. In a "that shouldn't be necessary" kind of way. It seems like what you have to do is specifically go to the show that you want to listen to from the Library and hit "Play" or "Resume" or whatever the button is at the top (under the show thumbnail) instead of selecting a specific episode. Selecting an episode seems to assume that you want to listen to a variety, not that you want to start listening to the podcast at that specific episode and continue in order.

seems to have improved by:

1) turning on Continuous Playback in Settings -> Podcast

2) removing all in queue

3) at podcast episode -> click "..." -> Settings -> Oldest to Newest

still... what a mess

If you go to the show settings, select play old to newest then also select play next. It started playing one after the other for me after doing those 2 things.

This is because with the latest update you can’t continuously play in reverse order. Play episode one and it will autoplay the rest. The only option is to then display the podcast in chronological order. However if the podcast you play has thousands of podcasts you spend 10 minutes scrolling to find the last podcast. You could do this in version 16.

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The only option for that is to create a station.

I made one for “recent podcasts”. When you go to that station, select a podcast, hold and press it to add to your queue/play next, it adds all the episodes, or at least the amount you add the station to show.

That’s a very not practical thing to do, but works. 🤷‍♂️

SOLVED!

I’ve been struggling with this one, and just figured out how to get it to work on my phone.

I made sure the queue was already empty (for some reason I had a podcast, always popping up there that I didn’t want to listen to)

>library

find podcast >hold finger on podcast

menu pops up.

clock >add to queue

It worked!

note: “continuous play” selected in the iPhone settings

>home screen >settings >podcast >continuous play

and

Podcast set to play oldest to newest:

>podcast app >library >select a podcast > settings (…)

>⚙️ settings

>oldest to newest

I think the issue here is you can't select the newest episode, you have to select an old episode and it will automatically play all the other episodes afterwards. Somehow, the autoplay won't work in reverse time. Hopefully it can be fixed by Apple.

I ended up getting an iPhone 5s as a podcast phone it only has 32GB. If you touch the three dots upper right corner and choose settings you can choose oldest to newest or newest to oldest.

From the settings wheel on the main screen choose continuous play or turn off continuous play. It will play all of that podcast one after the other. It works with CarPlay too.

There is an option for ‘continuous playback’, but it isn’t in the app, it’s in the Podcasts section of Settings.

Go to Settings, scroll down to Podcasts, then scroll down (a long way down) to Continuous Playback.

So far as I can tell, this allows you to listen to all episodes in one podcast.

It’s not ideal.

This is a bit drastic and I didn’t have a huge number of podcasts in my library, but when I’m hooked on a podcast, I only listen to that till I’ve caught up anyway. So, before I did the following, after an episode, all the other podcasts in my library were listed to Play Next at the bottom, ie my true crime episode would finish then I’d be launched into a random paranormal episode of another podcast or something. So I just removed everything from my library except my current podcast and another I really like. After that, all episodes of the podcast I was listening to were listed below instead and they play chronologically.

After a lot of digging I found a simple solution to listening to 1 podcast continuously.

Create a channel with 1 podcast in it. Make sure you have continuous play selected in podcast settings. Play your channel from THE HOME SCREEN by long holding the Podcast App. Play your channel.

I know this is an older post, but I actually had the same question. When I saw that no one had an answer for it, I went to the app and clicked on everything, and I think I found it. The podcast that I’ve been listening to, I followed it, added it to queue and put them in order from oldest to newest. If you click on your library, go to your shows, click on one of them. When the show comes up, click the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and click the option that says “Play Next”. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I have a feeling that will do it, when I listen to it while I’m at work. I work prep at a restaurant and I’m constantly wearing gloves, so having to change gloves, because my podcast decides to switch to a different show instead of the next episode, becomes a little irritating. Hope this helps someone because I came here looking for the same answer as all of you!

Try this -> go to Settings > Podcasts, then turn off Continuous Playback.

It doesn’t