Podcasts: choice between showing the podcast cover art or the captions

[rach33el]

Captions are great and can be super useful, but it’s not great when it’s in place of the podcast’s cover art. Give us a choice to see the captions or the cover art. Some times it is very distracting and it would be nice just to see their cover art! Other times reading along might be better but you still have the option when you scroll down to “read along”. I know it’s not just me who it annoys.. Spotify gave us the option when we are listening to music to see a short video clip or the album cover let us choose here to.. Thank you!

[stephenshutters]

Goodness, you’re exhausting, BigAM. Do you not see the irony in your repeatedly telling every person over and over how pointless it is to comment on this thread?

[bent0000]

BigAM, actually stephenshutters is correct - you don't need to repeat. Your original post about the futility of the effort will be there for all to see.  My (wishful) thinking (after having read previous posts on this subject) is that once a certain threshold of complaints is received, the company might do something about it.  I won't be holding my breath, however - with over 250M subscribers, it'd probably take a few hundred thousand complaints for them to notice.  So, c'mon everybody!  

[stephenshutters]

Goodness gracious. 

[bent0000]

Ah, I get it BigAM.  You're a bot.  Explains the unhelpful and repetitive nature of your posts, and your understanding of my post to be the opposite of what it actually was. I see there's no need to engage you further.

[stephenshutters]

Oh, thank goodness. A moderator seems to have stepped in and removed some unnecessary comments. We greatly appreciate it!

[roryink]

add a toggle to turn off captions, they aren't accurate and i would much rather see podcast art.

[mfeehls]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 15 Pro

Operating System

iOS 18.3.2

My Question or Issue

there is no option to turn off the live transcript for podcasts!! i have tried everything—redownloading, logging out twice, and updating my phone. it’s driving me insane.

[#9]

How do I get back to just a static image on podcasts? no transcripts, no video. Its kills my battery.

[user-removed]

Another vote for ability to toggle it on and off. Pretty please

[Luziexx]

Same issue here since few weeks.. tried every option above, none of them worked. Reaching out to you from Germany. Never experienced something so annoying as the transcripts you can't turn off