Skip Outros / Holiday Icons
The big feature in this release is the ability to skip outros. This is probably our most requested feature so I’m thrilled we can finally deliver it. Merry Christmas!
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In addition, for your holiday cheer, Castro has not one but two holiday icon choices for you. We’re also making a few other icons free for everyone, and we’ve revamped the splash screens to be a bit more modern and match the newer icon style.
Account Profiles
Another important inclusion in this release won’t be noticeable yet, but we’re rolling out account profiles under the hood. This feature, initially started by the former development team in 2021, enables sharing the same profile across multiple devices. It’s the largest change needed for device sync. It’s still locked to a single device while we iron out any bugs, but we’ll be building out syncing features soon. If you have any issues with 2024.12 related to your account or Castro Plus, this is the likely culprit. Please email support and we’ll help get it resolved.
Storage Page
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We’ve gotten feedback that Castro can build up disk usage over time. To help track down bugs and better communicate what we’re doing with your disk space, we’ve released a page for visualizing all files stored within the app (accessed via Settings -> User Data -> Storage). We’ll continue to add more info here as needed. If you feel Castro is taking up too much space, take a screenshot and pass it along in a support email. We can help explain what’s going on, and it also gives us a good starting place for finding and fixing any related bugs.
iOS 15 Fixes
We haven’t done a great job of testing our latest features on small screens and older devices. This release includes a number of bug fixes that should improve the experience on the iPod Touch and similar devices. Now you can see the full episode information and won’t experience broken navigation bars, among other issues. We’re not abandoning iOS 15 any time soon.
Outage
Apologies for the brief outage December 17th. Our cloud provider shut down our database server for emergency maintenance while multiple team members were traveling. Typically we’d put the site in maintenance mode or swap in the standby for a longer outage, but by the time I got in front of a computer the server was already back up. Certain features of Castro were broken for about an hour. Sorry about that!
More to come soon. Happy holidays. Thanks for using Castro!
