responsivness of podcast app is terrible after update to ios18

Even with good internet connection loading of library tooks ages and after pressing play button it doesn’t start to play at all or it starts to play with 15 or 60 seconds delay. I don’t know why. It’s very annoying always wait for everything. And I think it drains my battery very fast too. I’ll probably start to use Spotify app for podcasts even though I had it only for music until now.