Podcasts disappear from iPhone after syncing

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topcattim

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I use iTunes to manage the podcasts on my phone. I download them all to the computer, and then select which ones I want transferred to my iPhone. That helps avoid the phone memory getting filled up, and helps me know what's where. I use a lightning cable to sync.

Since the iOS 16.4.1. update (I think), syncing doesn't work properly. Immediately after a sync, they are showing on my phone, and I can play them on the phone ok. This is still working after I use the "eject" button.

But if I then close the podcast app, and then re-open it, the downloaded podcasts disappear. I can still see the "shows I follow" but when I select "downloaded", the only ones I see are the ones I manually downloaded to the phone on the phone itself.

When I plug back in into iTunes, it then resyncs the podcasts that I had asked it to copy originally. And then the cycle continues.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

I'm on an iPhone 11 and running 16.4.1. (20E252).
 

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It has been a decade since I quit using iTunes for podcast management. They removed their support for playlists, so I moved to an app that didn't need iTunes and just download them directly on the iPhone.

It looks like it is a bug in iOS 16.4. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254767533

I would recommend to stop syncing podcasts with iOS Podcasts app and move to downloading directly only.
 
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