Apple podcast Up Next so frustrating

Apple, please change how the Up Next feature works. I am so frustrated listening to your podcast app. I typically listen to many episodes from one specific show, one after another. I don’t know if it was the iOS 18 update back in 2024, but for a long time now, each time an episode from a specific show ends, another show will play right afterwards— a show that I do not want to listen to.

Even if I manually remove every single show from the Up Next area, the next day, there will be a whole bunch of random shows back in there.

The only way to solve this annoyance is to uncheck continuous play. That doesn’t stop the random shows from appearing up next. It just stops those random shows from automatically playing after the episode that I am listening to ends.

What the absolute heck, Apple? Who on earth has the stupidity in your company to think that this is actually a good feature? Remember when Steve Jobs was alive and everything was streamlined, simplified, and easy to use?

Why do you think that what you’re doing now is better than what Steve Jobs created?

I would love to just ditch the Apple Podcast app and use another one, but everything else that’s out there either has a subscription fee, or isn’t all that great.

this issue has been going on long enough, and I’m sure that other people have complained about this long enough, why has an apple changed anything?