> when the phone is charging at night and connected to a WiFi

Worse yet is auto-update for applications. My phone will be idle, connected to power and WiFi while I’m sleeping for many hours, and it isn’t until I remove it from power in the morning that it starts installing updates automatically, so I can’t use the apps.

They track when the phone is charged at night to try to predict when you’ll remove it from power to optimize charging, but they can’t use this to also intelligently download/install things in the background when it won’t impact the user? It makes no sense, and falls right in line with the lack of logic on the podcast downloads.

The Apple podcast app has sucked since it was released in 2011. Use Overcast. It’s written and maintained by indie dev Marco Arment. He’s a podcaster and before that best known as the cofounder of Tumblr

They still use XCode to write software in 21st century. What do you expect? Be happy they managed to ship at least some features working.