Some Apple watch requests

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  happygun · Member · May 25, 2026 at 3:29 am

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  1. Replace the effects button with sleep timer on the now playing screen. Or as some place where sleep timer can be accessed with a similar level of control as on the phone.
  2. Add more sleep timer options to the shortcuts. Why is it limited to a preset time of 5 minutes – can’t the duration of timer be set as a spoken variable?
  3. some way of accessing listening history. Or don’t immediately remove the download.
     
  4. add an option to star an episode in the screen to the left of note playing (currently had episode details and mark as played). Also add an option of ‘go to podcast’
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  staff-joey8 · Staff · May 26, 2026 at 6:27 am

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  Thanks for the ideas, @happygun

  We’ll look into getting this into a future version of our app if more users request it.

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  mushmikan · Member · May 28, 2026 at 8:16 pm

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  Regarding request 2: Add more sleep timer options to the shortcuts
  How are you getting the sleep timer shortcut action to work? @happygun @staff-joey8
  https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios/issues/18
  I get an error when I run the sleep timer shortcut on my watch.

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  staff-joey8 · Staff · May 29, 2026 at 5:42 am

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  Thanks for the update, @mushmikan

  Could you send through your logs to us when you run into this issue? You can email them over to us via support(at)pocketcasts(dot)com

  Here is how to get those logs: https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/collecting-app-logs/