Why has the podcasts app started marking episodes as played when they are only partly complete?
For the last couple of months the podcasts app has become really irritating. I have some podcasts that I might listen to only once or twice a week, listening to other podcasts in between. These are podcasts with hundreds of episodes that I'm working my way through and I don't usually listen to a whole episode at a time.
Until a couple of months ago, when I went back to listen to a podcast, the episode I'd previously been listening to would still be there, marked as unplayed, waiting for me to pick it up from where I'd left off.
Now, even if I'm only 10% through an episode, if I come back to the podcast after a few days, the partially listened to episode has been marked as played. So first I have to scroll through hundreds of episodes to find the episode I was listening to and then I have to try to find the point I'd got to to restart listening.
This is worse!
I don't understand why this was changed and (assuming that there may be some people who prefer the new approach), I don't understand why it isn't an option that users can select.
Is it a bug or a feature? Does anyone know?
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 16
