It’s not just you—the Apple podcast app is a disaster

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Complaining about an app update is part of life in the 21st century. But never before has there been an app update as truly horrendous as Apple's changes to its podcasts app.

After finally downloading iOS 14.5 this week, Fast Company staffer Joe Berkowitz woke up to find his painstakingly curated podcast library in ruins, destroyed by an update that was theoretically supposed to make the app better. "Eliminating so much personal effort feels downright disrespectful," he writes. Read more about the horrid redesign of the Apple podcasts app here.

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