'Recommended Podcasts' showing up on iOS for managed users even though the setting is 'disabled'

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Just logged in to my young son’s managed account on my iPad and was shocked to see a new ‘recommended podcast’ section with
a list of very age inappropriate podcasts. The settings are still at the default of ‘disabled for managed users’.

Two complaints here:
First - new content features like this should never show up for a managed user without explicitly setting them as on. Many people use this feature to restrict contents for children.

Second - why is this content all or nothing on managed users? The second use case I have for managed features is to allow my wife to track her watching shows separate from myself. I have to have it off to block it from the child, but that means that she can’t take advantage of it.

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Thanks for reporting the issue with the “recommended podcasts” hub and managed users. I’ve reported this to engineering for them to investigate.

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Even after removing podcasts from the home screen, and changing the system setting to ‘Disabled’ (not just disabled for managed users) you can still see podcasts. If you click on ‘More’, the Podcast option is still there and lists (and plays) podcasts.

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@“Bart P” said:
Even after removing podcasts from the home screen, and changing the system setting to ‘Disabled’ (not just disabled for managed users) you can still see podcasts. If you click on ‘More’, the Podcast option is still there and lists (and plays) podcasts.

Thanks for the observation. I have added it to our internal ticket with engineering. It appears they may have already nailed down the root cause.

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Thanks for following up.

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Any update on this? I am setting this update today and am still seeing this with the option Disabled for Managed users or complete disabled and when I disable Podcast all around. I am trying to avoid YouTube for children as it gives them access to the wide open internet, which this also appears to do.

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Any updates here? Now on top of Podcasts, we’ve added Web Shows, and my two kids’ managed accounts, which are pretty carefully curated, all of a sudden have access to a ton of stuff that is irrelevant and confusing at best, and ridiculously inappropriate at worst, and I can’t seem to get Disabled for Managed Users to have any effect, trying from multiple clients. This is definitely unacceptable.

Maybe I shouldn’t be updating from the Beta channel - I don’t mind functionality or bells-and-whistles changes (and potential bugs), but I don’t want to have my kids as guinea pigs for whatever new content stream Plex decides to add. News I’ve managed to turn off everywhere successfully I think at least. I’m glad they haven’t decided that Plex really needs a porn channel :confused: