IOS – make the Podcasts App play the unplayed podcasts in chronological order

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The new Podcasts app is pretty swell. I'm particularly fond of the 'Unplayed Episodes' button that generates a playlist of all my unplayed podcast episodes, on which I can just hit 'Play' and let a half a dozen episodes of different podcasts just run in order, without having to actually edit or manage a playlist.

But there's one problem: They play newest first. Is there any way to change this playback order so that I can hear my oldest unplayed podcasts first?

Best Answer

Unfortunately, no.

The combined Unplayed Episodes playlist has no settings and defaults to newest first.

As of version 1.01, you can only sort individual subscriptions by oldest first.

Even if you go through the trouble of changing each individual subscription preference to oldest first, Podcasts app will still keep the Unplayed Episodes playlist sorted to newest first.