Follow and listen to podcasts in Apple Podcasts on iPhone and iPad

Follow your favorite podcasts and control their listening using various features, in particular by changing the reading speed or by making a quick return or advance.

How to listen and subscribe for free to a podcast ?

PODCAST On your mobile phone, your connected speaker or your computer, you can listen to many French and international audio programs for free, such as those of “20 minutes”

Published on 09/20/22 at 12:46 p.m. – Updated on 09/20/22 at 12:51 p.m

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Are you part, or soon, of the 384 million podcast listeners worldwide ? The choice of content is large, with 66 million episodes ! Before you get into the thousand episodes of “Minute butterfly ! “, The Actus podcast 20 minutes, Or “Sixth Science”, the Podcast Sciences, we will look at how to listen and subscribe for free to a podcast. Besides, what is a podcast ? Follow the leader…

What is a podcast ?

The podcast is digital audio content that can be listened to and download for free anywhere, on a mobile phone, a connected speaker, a tablet or a computer for example. It uses a simple tool, the RSS feed. By being sprinkling with a program for free, the new episodes are automatically downloaded during their broadcast. You will be able to listen to a podcast without internet connection, in plane mode for example.

“Native podcast” and “replays” ?

Perhaps you have already heard of “native podcast” ? This term covers audios content broadcast online, without going to the radio. All the podcasts of 20 minutes are native podcasts. They distinguish themselves from “replays” podcasts, radios programs that can be listened to, or listened to online.

How to listen to a podcast ?

On your mobile phone, iOS and Android operating systems have their dedicated application. Just download the Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts application. Other online listening applications are considered more intuitive, such as Spotify, Castbox, Pocket Casts, AntennaPod or Podcast Addict.

Some of these applications have a computer version, with a listening portal, such as Deezer, Amazon Music or Podcloud.

All the podcasts of 20 minutes, Like “summer in your ears”, our summer series podcast, or “20 mint on the square”, on the web3, are available on online listening apps, but also on the podcast page.20 minutes.FR, and at the 20minate podcast section.Fr. You can discover, thanks to the search bar, subjects or episodes that interest you. These audio contents are free, and listened to without registration or connection link.

How to search for a podcast ?

On your mobile application, your computer platform or on 20 minutes.fr, you have several possibilities. If you know the name of the program you want to listen to, write it in the platform search bar. You can also be referred by themes: you will thus find “any sex application” in the sexuality and health categories, or “mixed zone” in that of sports. You can also trust certain discovery and recommendation platforms, such as Podmust.

Why some audio programs are unavailable on all platforms ?

Some platforms, such as Spotify or Deezer, produce or buy exclusive audio content. You will therefore only find them at home, often against paying subscription, or the obligation to create an account. On your favorite listening app or platform online, or on podcasts.20 minutes.fr, all signed podcasts 20 minutes are free. Good listening !

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Follow and listen to podcasts in Apple Podcasts on iPhone and iPad

Follow your favorite podcasts and control their listening using various features, in particular by changing the reading speed or by making a quick return or advance.

• Follow podcasts
• No longer follow podcasts
• Choose the order for reading episodes
• Filter seasons and episodes
• Accelerate or slow an episode of podcast
• Define a standby period for an episode of Podcast

Follow podcasts on iPhone or iPad

When you follow a podcast, the new episodes are automatically downloaded from your device. You can also receive a notification as soon as new episodes are available.

1. Open the Podcasts app.
2. Explore the available podcasts or search for a. Need help find the podcasts you love ?
3. Touch the show to see your information page.
4. Touch the follow .

To access the podcasts you follow or to those you have added manually using a URL, display the Library tab. Then touch Podcasts, then followed.

You want to listen to podcasts with premium content ? Find out how to subscribe to Apple Podcasts subscriptions.

Stop following podcasts on iPhone or iPad

1. Open the Podcasts app.
2. On your iPhone, go to the Library tab, then touch Podcasts. On your iPad, go to library in the sidebar and touch Podcasts.
3. Tap a podcast to display its information page.
4. Touch the button more .
5. Touch you no longer follow this podcast.

The new episodes will not be downloaded, but those already in your library will not be deleted. If you stop following a podcast with premium content, your subscription remains active. Discover as terminate a subscription.

Choose the order for reading episodes

You can listen in order to the episodes of a podcast that you follow, starting with the most recent or older.

1. Open the Podcasts app.
2. On your iPhone, go to the Library tab, then touch Podcasts. On your iPad, go to library in the sidebar and touch Podcasts.
3. Touch the show to see your information page.
4. Touch the plus button in the upper right corner, then touch adjustments.
5. Touch at least at most recent or at least recent recent.

When an episode ends, the following episode of this podcast is read automatically. To deactivate this feature, go to settings> podcasts, then deactivate continuous playback.

Filter seasons and episodes

You can apply a filter to podcasts with seasons to display a special season. If you follow a podcast or if you have saved or downloaded episodes, you can also apply a filter to display only non -read episodes, downloads, etc.

1. Open the Podcasts app.
2. On your iPhone, go to the Library tab, then touch Podcasts. On your iPad, go to library in the sidebar and touch Podcasts.
3. Touch the show to see your information page.
4. Tap seasons or episodes, then choose a filter.

Accelerate or slow an episode of podcast

1. Open the Podcasts app and start listening to an episode.
2. Tap the mini-reader at the bottom of the screen to display audio controls.
3. Tap the reading speed button, then choose a speed from the menu that appears.

Define a standby period for an episode of Podcast

1. Open the Podcasts app and start listening to an episode.
2. Tap the mini-reader at the bottom of the screen to display audio controls.
3. Tap the waking timer button to choose the duration during which you want the episode to be read.

If the problem persists

Install the latest version of iOS or iPados on your device. Then open the podcasts app and try again to follow the advice of this article.