How to autoplay next episode of an Apple Podcast?

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.

So I have been having this same issue for a few days. Continuous play is on and I chose what show I wanted to hear. Come to find out, there were multiple shows in the up next section on the home tab. I cleared out all except what I am currently listening to so I will see how this plays out going forward. Pun intended.

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!

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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So I listen mainly to 1 podcast. I had the global setting continuous playback. And the podcast setting oldest to newest. they played like that. But, I had so many old ones and was tired of listening to old news, I changed the podcast setting ( not global setting ) , newest to oldest. That did not help. But, I then in the global settings disabled continuous playback and now I get them in order, newest to oldest. BUT, that one particular podcast stays in the que, newest to oldest , when I switch to another podcast !!!

Not sure, but check if this helps -> https://support.pocketcasts.com/article/up-next-continuous-playback-ios/

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

i think it's a bug of new os or sth if your Up Next does not work and apple should seriously address this issue

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.

Disregard. It worked for the podcast I was listening to but not for the next one I started.

Making a station has worked for me but it stopped working and know I can't get it working again. My queue is empty 🤷‍♂️

Yes

I was having this same issue. When I went into my podcast settings the Continuous playback was on. I turned it off and the next episode played in the same series.

oh wow, this is totally the solution that worked for me. And I agree that it's a totally useless feature for podcasts to be shuffled.