IOS 6 opens RSS feeds in Podcast app – how to prevent this

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When I click on an RSS feed link in Safari in iOS, instead of opening the RSS page it opens the podcast app, which is not helpful and very annoying. Is there a way to disable this automatic redirect to the podcast app?

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Unfortunately, as far as I know (and that is usually enough ;), you can not change the default app that opens the RSS feed. Personally I use the Downcast podcast app, to add the rss feeds from Safari to my Downcast app is as follows:

Go to the specific website and find you URL
Press and hold the rss-link you are interested in
Choose Copy
Now go to your RSS app and paste the URL

Press and hold rss link

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Why can’t Safari open RSS feeds

Based on the error message, I tried the following command and solved the problem:

chown -R username: ~/Library/Safari

So I guess there are some files or directories which does not belong to me. It's weird how could this happen because I never touched that directory manually before.

ITunes or other RSS/podcast reader that can retrieve whole podcast, I.E. transversing pages

I don’t know of an app that supports this.

Perhaps you could add more than one feed:

http://venganzasdelpasado.com.ar/posts.rss
http://venganzasdelpasado.com.ar/posts.rss?page=2

And have iTunes handle it that way?

Alternatively, you could create your own RSS feed based on the website’s HTML, rather than use the one the website is offering which is limited to 5 items. That way, you could have more entries in the feed. This can be done using FeedWeaver, a free online web app.

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Why can’t Safari open RSS feeds

ITunes or other RSS/podcast reader that can retrieve whole podcast, I.E. transversing pages

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