

The UI will feel somewhat familiar, but you'll notice that a few things have been tidied up. Following its sale, in May, to a public radio group that includes NPR, Pocket Casts is debuting a big overhaul today that makes what many consider to be the best podcast repository even better. Indeed, it does cost you a few dollars, but the app is well designed and offers a more comprehensive feature set that some of the free software doesn't. Pocket Casts will be informed when the download completes or fails.Even with a number of workable free services for listening to podcasts, Pocket Casts is a popular option for episodic audio. During background downloads the download progress may not be updated. WatchOS handles scheduling of the background download and downloads may be throttled if conditions are poor (low battery, limited CPU resources). Please note: if the screen turns off during a download, the download will continue in the background. The following suggestions should force the watch to use Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth:

Please note that to access the Episode Details of the Now Playing episode from the player, you will need to firmly press the Now Playing screen. To manually download an episode, tap it to open the Episode Details screen > tap Download.

How to download episodes to your watch: Manual Downloads
