[rince]

I like the radio dial, seems like a nice way to browse the different categories.

But this Podcasts app is missing 1 crucial feature it looks like - no ability to let you know the podcasts you are subscribed to have new episodes. I'm hoping that is expanded upon in iOS 6. Otherwise you still have to rely on syncing with iTunes.

[glhaynes]

Have you switched the "Subscription" toggle on for any of the podcasts you have? (Note this also reveals an "Auto-Download" toggle.) From the Episodes view, tap on the podcast itself at the top.

I haven't had any podcasts update in the last few minutes, I don't think, so I haven't been able to test it.

[MBCook]

It's really odd that doesn't transfer over. I also find the way to get to the per-podcast settings was very unintuitive, it took me a couple of tries to find it.

The thing I find really odd is the recommended podcasts in the catalog.

So many of them don't have pictures, and many that do have pictures that aren't descriptive at all (just a person's face, no way to know it's a knitting podcast). And the picture is all you have to go by, there is no text unless you press the little info button.

I'd expect podcasts will start adding pictures now that they have another reason to, but I'm surprised Apple didn't filter out such podcasts from the top lists. It seemed very un-Apple-ly to go to a category and see up to 50% of the entries in some categories are just placeholder images. There is also no way to tell which don't have images and which are currently pulling the image over the network.

[rince]

Thanks for the tip - I would've figured since I'm subscribed in iTunes it would have turned on this feature.

[pat2man]

I thought the same thing but then I scrolled up and saw the search bar with the list view. Using the list view you get exactly what you want, a list of podcasts with tags for new episodes and a chronologically sorted list view of all unplayed episodes.