Don’t upgrade to iOS 5 on your iPad if you listen to Podcasts or Audiobooks.
Apple hid the Podcasts button in a “more” menu so you have to give an extra tap to get to them and the ability to control the speed (1/2x, 1x or 2x) is gone. Whats worse is that everything plays at 1/2 speed with no option to change it.
Issue not present in iOS for iPhone/iPod.
Please stop taking away features in new updates, Apple. hiding the podcasts in a menu that users are not allowed to rearrange (like they can on the iPod/iPhone) and taking away the speed feature, forcing all podcasts and audiobooks to play at half speed? Really, Apple?
UPDATE: Reuters reports iCloud problems:
Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday.
Apple’s new operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — iOS 5 — also annoyed many users who encountered hours-long delays in downloading and installation.
Investors have high hopes for iCloud, which replaces MobileMe, a collection of Web-based products that have failed to impress critics or generate substantial revenues for a company that has had success in most other ventures over the past decade.
“It failed in a very nasty way in that mail sometimes vanished, sometimes appeared then vanished, and often there was a user and/or password-incorrect message plus some rather obscure additional error messages,” said David Farber, a professor of engineering and public policy with Carnegie Mellon University.
“The behavior suggests program problems,” added Farber, a well-known computer scientist.
But the iCloud problems are especially embarrassing for Apple, as the company introduced the new online service with much fanfare in June at its annual developer forum.
Co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last Wednesday, said “it just works” when he introduced the service in June. The software is key to the new iPhone 4S, which will be launched on Friday in seven countries.
Scrubber controls available are nothing like what’s in the iPad documentation PDF for ios5:
It really sucks
Pls put or right apple.
I agree! This really stinks! It’s like apple wants to get rid of podcasts…
You can edit the list so that “Podcasts” reappears at the bottom. Just go to “More” and drag/drop the ones you want in and out of the list at the bottom.
Wish I read this before I upgraded. You can fix half speed by resetting all setting. It really sucks!
Recently updated IOS on ipad, now the podcast subscriptions icons show up but when I tap them they don’t go into the submenu showing the podcasts available under that title.
It used to let me select episodes. This sucks.