Is it possible to uninstall the Apple Podcasts app

Neumark · Oct 25, 2012

Yesterday when I wanted to download a podcast through my iphone I had to download the app "Podcasts". However I do not like it and would like to go back to using the Music app instead for playing my podcasts. Is it possible to do?

What I do not like:

1) I do not like the icon menu and would like to have a list.

2) If I have listened to the whole podcast except for the last 30 seconds (because if for exemple the podcast ends with 60 second ending music) the podcast still shows as a (1) on the podcast icon, thus indicating I have a new podcast.

3) If I paused the podcast and I later open "Podcasts" in order to continue, it show the icon menu and does not directly show which podcast I most recently listened to (and if you are subscribing to more than 10 podcasts you sometimes do not remember which one you listened to a couple of hours ago).

4) Finally, I always listen using x2 playback speed, but I feel that "Podcasts" is not as good handling the higher speed as "Music" was. It might just be me, but I have listened to x2 speed for many years without any problems, but since installing "Podcasts" I have some problems understanding what they are saying.

So is it possible to go back in time?

Regards, Neumark

LawHawk · Oct 25, 2012

1) I do not like the icon menu and would like to have a list. You can change this to a list. Pull the icons down and look above them. Upper right corner - touch the box with three parallel lines.

LawHawk · Oct 25, 2012

2) If I have listened to the whole podcast except for the last 30 seconds (because if for exemple the podcast ends with 60 second ending music) the podcast still shows as a (1) on the podcast icon, thus indicating I have a new podcast. You can mark it as played, or delete it. In the episode list either (a) swipe right or left on an episode, delete button appears, hit delete; or (b) tap the blue arrow icon, tap light blue "Mark as played." Either one will make the red number go away.

LawHawk · Oct 25, 2012

3) If I paused the podcast and I later open "Podcasts" in order to continue, it show the icon menu and does not directly show which podcast I most recently listened to (and if you are subscribing to more than 10 podcasts you sometimes do not remember which one you listened to a couple of hours ago). I have no solution for this one, I agree, it's lame.

4) Finally, I always listen using x2 playback speed, but I feel that "Podcasts" is not as good handling the higher speed as "Music" was. It might just be me, but I have listened to x2 speed for many years without any problems, but since installing "Podcasts" I have some problems understanding what they are saying. Have you tried 1-1/2 speed? That's what I do when I want to go through them quickly. Obviously not as fast as 2x but to me it's much much more understandable.