{"id":214170,"date":"2026-02-16T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:05:09","slug":"the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Podcasts app is switching to HTTP Live Streaming video technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology-182605612.html\">The Apple Podcasts app is switching to HTTP Live Streaming video technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology-182605612.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology-182605612.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 13:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple is planning a major update for its Podcasts app. The entire app is switching to the company&#8217;s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) video technology. Previously, it streamed video in various formats like MOV, MP4 and M4V.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">This provides several benefits for the end user. It lets people switch seamlessly between watching and listening, in addition to offering a horizontal full display option. It&#8217;ll also make both video and audio streams available to download for offline viewing. This wasn&#8217;t possible with the previous streaming method, which pulled content from an RSS-like feed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The technology integrates picture-in-picture for multitasking on products like the iPad. Finally, the updated app will automatically adjust the picture quality to ensure smooth playback in various network conditions, including both Wi-Fi and cellular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The update will be available on most platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, visionOS and the web. It&#8217;s in beta right now, but the company plans a major rollout this spring as part of the upcoming 26.4 operating systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology-182605612.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple Podcasts app is switching to HTTP Live Streaming video technology https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/the-apple-podcasts-app-is-switching-to-http-live-streaming-video-technology-182605612.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/UXsaE92c6iRL6asI2QjgsA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02MDg-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2026-02\/1d5ec450-0b5d-11f1-8ef7-2921d32e2856","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214172,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214170\/revisions\/214172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}