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Fixes:
-Bug fix for when device is in dark mode, but you have it disabled in iCatcher (light mode).
-Bug fix for the lock screen widgets not doing anything when tapped. Also added 2 additional options when configuring widgets. Do nothing and show episode details.
-Bug fix for playback queue (x of y episodes)

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Fixes:
-Bug fix some buttons that don't look right with the button shapes accessibility option enabled.
-Bug fix for the import episode from the web shortcut action

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Fixes:
- Resolved the issue where the shortcut for the last update was not displayed as available in the shortcuts app.

New:
- Introduced a new podcast default setting (found in the settings tab, under podcast defaults) that allows users to prevent the disabling of the streaming tag on an episode after streaming.

9.3
Fixes
- Bug fix for some episodes downloading, then appearing to not be downloaded
New
- New shortcut action 'Import Media Items' to process 1 or multiple files to import into an existing podcast or to create a new import media podcast (like audiobooks). Set up a shortcut that works with the share sheet and you can import a folder into iCatcher. If the folder has an artwork file, then that will be used for that new podcast’s artwork.
- New shortcut action 'Import Episode From Web'. This action expects a webpage URL. Attempts to scrape the webpage output looking for meta tags (og:title and og:description) and a source tag that contains the media file.
- New option under settings, playback, controls for Volume Slider. Disable to hide the volume slider on the now playing view.

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New
-New setting under playback, controls for Always show now playing to show now playing when tapping an episode to play. This also works with the media toolbar enabled.
-Additional option for the media toolbar (Settings, Playback, Controls) to show the rewind button

Fixes
-Fix for media toolbar setting not respecting users choice to disable it
-Fix for downloading episodes on the watch that wouldn't finish completely

9.2.7
New
-Control Center widget to open iCatcher for iOS 18+
-Updated media toolbar with new layout. Tapping the artwork (left side) will show additional options previously on the right. Tapping the title will now show now playing.

Fixes
-Fix for links in show notes popover not being clickable
-Fix for playback getting stuck in fast forward/fast reverse in rare scenario
-Playback fix

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New
+Added Stop Playback intent available as an action in the shortcuts app.
+Updated podcast episode entity in app intents (shortcut actions) to include imageUrl. If the episode has an image url that will have the url.

Fixes
-Experimental New Podcasts Tab UI updated to support multi select and drag like the existing UI. This now works with the grid layout.
-Experimental New Podcasts Tab UI updated to support multi select and drag like the existing UI. This now works with the grid layout.
-Fix for watch local playback not playing at higher than 2.5x speed
-Fix for Portrait only orientations
-Fix for feed parsing

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New
+Additional download options included in context menu (tap and hold) for episodes.

Fixes
-Fix for import media shortcut not properly handling movie files
-Fix for not selecting the last tab that was active on relaunch
-Performance improvement during podcast refresh

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New
+Added share action to the list of playlists when swiping right to left. Also added share within a playlists settings.

Fixes
-Fix for apple watch auto transfer playlist when deleting the playlist
-Fix related to the import media app intent shortcut action

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New
+New AppIntent to set playback rate. See shortcuts app for this new item
+New AppIntent to import media to allow for importing files via the shortcuts app. You could make the shortcut available a share action to import a media file from the files app directly into the app

Fixes
-Fix for playback speed with voiceover
-Fix for issue with CarPlay

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Fixes
-Added the Play episode intent for the shortcuts app. This was unintentionally removed in a prior version
-Fix for the navigate broken shortcut actions that navigate to different areas in the app including the now playing screen

9.2/9.2.1 updates
New
+Initial support for m3u8 streaming
+Updates to the Media Toolbar (Settings, playback, controls). Updated toolbar has menu options reorganized with new Speed slider and a new option to select playback destination.
+Updates to Car Play
+Update Watch setting area. Shows podcasts/audiobooks in groups. You can now select a folder to import something like an audio book (if artwork file is in the folder it will set that as the artwork).
+New AppIntents added to allow for easily importing files directly to the apple watch. Great for those that use the apple watch to listen to audio books.
+Added sort by filename on the watch
+Added podcast/audiobook sorting for the local items added to the Apple Watch

Fixes
-Fix for CarPlay issue when app is completely closed and you attept to start playback from carplay
-Fix for the playback rate view that allowing for your max playback speed
-Fix for the Auto Transfer playlist watch option. (Settings, Apple Watch). Add items to the selected playlist will initiate a transfer to the watch.
-Fix for episodes not finishing correctly and updating their status

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Fixes
-Fix for downloader

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New Stuff
+Another setting for skipping to next/previous episode. Settings tab, playback, controls, Next/Previous treated as skip Forward/Back. This doesn't change the skip buttons that show on the lock screen. This only affects issuing the command from headphones or other remove action.

Fixes
-Fix related to episode cleanup
-Fix for duplicate episodes checker in the Settings tab, other tools

9.1.4 & 9.1.5
New Stuff
+Category selection updates on the beta podcasts tab (Settings / Experimental). Selecting a category and then tapping or pulling down to refresh will refresh only those podcasts.

Fixes
-Fix for search in settings tab not showing help topics
-Fix for tapping an episode in the podcast search that wasn't showing the current options.
-Fix for custom artwork selection on the Mac
-Fix for empty share sheet from the show notes popup
-Fix for images not showing right away in car play screen
-Fix for cleanup after playing

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New Stuff
+Option to disable the favorite button on the Lock Screen
+Updates to experimental podcasts tab UI. Including option to search for new podcast if search doesn’t return any results. Ability to remove a category (select it first) from all podcasts. Option for showing ready to play badge.
+Clear filters message on podcasts tab when there is a filter, but nothing is showing.
+Added support back for older Apple Watch devices (series 3).

Fixes
-bug fixes related to playback controls.

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New Stuff
+Adding the view episodes option to the share action on podcast in the new beta podcasts tab (Settings tab, experimental).
Fixed
-Fix for next/previous buttons on some devices where it should be skipping x seconds instead of next track.

9.1.1, 9.1
New Stuff
+Added support for the lock screen favorite/unfavorite an episode
+Added favorite option to episodes when performing tap and hold
+Sleep timer option to control how much it rewinds after timer ends
+Updated Playback-Controls-Remote Next/Previous Action Setting. The next in playlist item has been renamed and reconfigured. It is now Skip X, Next/Previous Episode when paused. Lock screen controls show the normal skip back and skip ahead controls while playing. When paused those controls disappear and instead show the next/previous track controls allow you to skip around
+Now requires watch OS 10
+New beta feature in the experimental settings. Working on a new podcast tab.

Bug Fixes
9.1.1/9.1
-Fix for stats view not showing images
-For for podcasts feed not showing titles properly in some cases
-Fix for skip chapters feature from the Lock Screen controls
-Fix for crashes related to podcast images
-Fix for crash when selected episodes in a playlist as well as in the downloads tab.
-Unicode fix for episode titles
-Fix for now playing view where it was hiding the home indicator every time, which also caused the Dynamic Island (top status) to disappear. This will now only happen if the now playing view is in fullscreen mode.

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New Stuff
v9.0.1
- Watch episodes that have chapters show an indicator (speaker icon) which chapter is currently playing. Also added artwork to those chapters if they have artwork.
v9.0
-Support for the latest iOS icon variations
- Updated car play buttons. Added next/previous to the available buttons
-Watch updates. New global playback rate option. New manual sorting option for episodes on downloaded to the watch. Drag to reorder.

Bug Fixes
v9.0.2
-Fix for watch podcast search
-Fix for watch showing selected chapter for phone playback
v9.0.1
-Fix for blurry artwork. Previous fix didn't fix all scenarios
-Fix for high cpu usage after a refresh causing crashes
v9.0
-Fix for playlist crash when the playlist uses a podcast category keyword
-Fix for editing podcast settings
-Fix for CarPlay disabled buttons.
-Fix for blurry artwork
-Numerous other fixes

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Bug Fixes
-Fix when subscribing to a feed that does a non-permanent redirect
-Fixes related to podcasting 2.0 and transcripts
-Fix for podcast feeds that included some basic html within a tag without using CDATA like they are supposed to.
-Adding the follow/subscribe button back on the podcast details page when viewing a podcast that is in your not following area

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