I just updated to IOS 18.0 Beta last night and this morning tried to launch Apple Podcast app and it will not load at all. It’s stuck in the “updating library“ with the spinning wheel icon. it was working just fine last night before I chose to update. Is there a known fix or am I better off going back to IOS 17?
Disregard, it did finally load. It took an extremely long time, more than 5 minutes, but it did finally load and seems to be working fine.
I found after I updated to iOS 18 (not beta) that the Apple Podcasts settings had switched itself to “Automatically download latest 5 episodes per show” which if you have a large library could take hours. I never dowload episodes unless I’m saving manually so I turned this off and now all is good… well almost all. My Apple Home Pods still glitch all the time but that is a different story.