Maybe you all have your own gripes and I do have plenty despite loving my AW6. But I need vent today about…

PODCASTS

God, this has been awful since my S1 and it never seems to improve. I set the shows I want to sync (so I have plenty to listen to when I go running without having to think about cellular data on my watch) and then my phone tells me its updating my podcasts on my watch (full charge, on a charging puck) and then… the progress bar barely shifts. It takes forever to sync the episodes, and I rarely (if ever) have a situation where it actually finishes the sync. Then instead of keeping the three most recent episodes available, it just keeps a bunch of old stuff. (I think setting old eps as ‘played’ might help, of course…)

Obviously there’s a general issue with how fast data seems to sync between iPhone and AW (in my experience), but Podcasts seems to be the worst culprit. Tried Overcast, but that also freaks out when trying to store the right episodes with my Watch.

Am I missing something obvious? Anyone else have beef with Podcasts and sync in general?

The dream is for the watch app on the iPhone to have a simple file transfer capability - which would not only allow us to dump whatever music, podcasts and pics onto the watch we wanted, but would also make AW a handy portable data archive should we want it.