Never before has a phone update felt more like a blatant act of hostility.
As I’d last left my Apple podcasting app, on pause after a dish-washing catchup on You’re Wrong About, all my audio files were in a pristine, easily accessible queue. I woke up yesterday to find them decimated to a smoldering rubble. Nothing was in its right place, many podcasts had just plain vanished, and worst of all, the damage wasn’t even the result of a glitch, but rather an ostensible improvement. (You know how, in a Dadaist sense, totally destroying something can count as improving it?)
I wasn’t the only victim crying foul in the wake of the iOS 14.5 update either. In fact, I was late, having resisted the digital overhaul out of sheer laziness. It turns out people have been upset about it since late April.
is the apple podcasts app update absolutely miserable and borderline unusable for anyone else
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) June 2, 2021
Holy shit Apple podcasts. The new update is the…
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