Is the Podcasts app eating my mobile data?

I'm using my iPod Touch 5th gen, iOS 7.0.3, with a mobile hotspot. I suspect that the Podcasts app is eating up my mobile data by downloading podcasts in the background or something, since I seem to have gone through my data especially quickly lately, and I've been careful.
I've turned off "automatic downloads" under settings: Podcasts, and of course "use cellular data" is off. Is there something else that could be downloading stuff in the background?
How do I get the podcasts to work the way they used to by default--download to computer at home, then transfer to the iPod when connected to said computer?

What is Refresh set to? If set to Manual it will prevent automatically updating the with newly added content. The iCloud symbol will not show that a new episode is available.
Setting Auto-Download to Off prevent auto downloading of new episodes.
Are you automatically download new mail messages?
With wifi on, you will use some data since the iPod is connecting to the internet to check for thins but not necessarily download. You may get notifications
Do you have automatic app updates turned don in Settings>iTunes and App Store

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I have a similar problem on my iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.4.

Since upgrading my phone to 6.0.1, I'm using way too much data. I believe it's the podcast app that's not loading shows while I'm connected to wifi. I have the 3g turned off for podcasts??? also after a phone call or an alert it starts playing a podcast?

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I've also had the same issues, after upgrading to IOS 6.0, the apps in my iPhone 4 were crashing and the battery life run out very fast.
The only solution worked for me was to remove all mail accounts (Exchange/Gmail) from my iPhone (in settings) and then add them back.
The crashing were stopped! also the battery was back to normal.
I found the solution by first looking at the crash logs (in IOS 6). you can find them at Settings -> General -> About (at the bottom of the About menu you will find the option that opens the logs).
There i saw many logs about Low Memory crash. 99% of the logs were pointed that the largest process (use the most memory) during the crashes is "dataaccessd".
I search in the web and found that this process is a deamon process that reponsible the Mail accounts (like Exchange/Gmail) and contancts list.
I've installed the app "System Status - activity monitor" which shows important system info like CPU usage, Memory usage and running processes.
Before apply my solution (deleting the mail accounts) i saw that the CPU usage was very high which consume the battery very fast. Also i saw that the memory (RAM) was run out.. which probably what cause the crashing..
After deleting the mail accounts (at Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars) i check again with the System Status app, and saw that the memory and CPU were back to normal.
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I have a selection of downloaded podcasts which I subscribe to on the Podcast app on iOS running on an iPhone 4S with iOS 6.13. I have listened to the majority of the podcasts without any problems, but on the last few it is asking me to turn on mobile data to stream the podcasts even though they have already been downloaded.
I have deleted them and downloaded them again, but the same problem occurs. Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?
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I've updated to iOS 7 and iTunes 11.1 and found that things seem drastically different.
How i used to do podcasts:
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What used to happen:
Podcasts that were selected to sync did if there were unplayed episodes
The Music player would list only those podcasts where there were unplayed episodes
Now things have changed. I immediately was told that none of my podcasts were playable without the Podcast app. I downloaded it and installed it.
What is happening now:
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Podcasts showing unplayed in the Podcast app = 57 - the difference appears to be that the podcast app is showing non-downloaded podcasts
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Additional information. Can this be right?
I spoke to Apple support who said that the settings for podcast syncing in iTunes are no longer being used since Apple moved to their Podcast app.
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Agree about the disaster part. I haven't found a fix within iTunes.
I gave up and switched to downcast 2 days ago. Even though it was a hassle to re-subscribe to all my podcasts, im so much happier.
To make switching easier, I found that in iTunes you can "get info" on the podcast and copy the RSS address to the clipboard. Put all of these in a message note. When iCloud syncs the note to your phone, you can copy and paste the urls into downcast one at a time to subscribe.
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I'm wondering whether there's any way to remove all those recent podcasts (either unplayed or only partially played) listed as downloadable from the Podcasts app on the iPhone. If I'd wanted all these additional episodes on the phone, I would have put them there. I don't want them there, yet the app insists upon larding up my podcast lists with these useless episodes. Nor do I want to mark them all as "played." There's a reason some of them are only partially played and others not at all. I prefer to keep them marked that way in my master list. But I do not want them on the iPhone.
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It is a horrific app.
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Fix it, otherwise stop forcing us to use it and allow us a choice!

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2. Arranging the podcasts in any order is now pointless. Any sort of wireless connection will reset my order to a randomized one. It's not even "podcasts with the newest episodes on top", it's just random.
3. Apple doesn't seem to allow any other podcast app to use the manual sync in iTunes. Am I wrong about that? I looked at countless paid apps and they all have their own cloud or system to only deliver episodes wirelessly...
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The podcasts app with iOS 7 is drively me absolutely and completely crazy.
1.I try to sync podcasts between my core iTunes library and two iDevices.
I sync a whole bunch of podcasts from my iTunes library. At some point, they randomly disappear. I come to the support communities were the general consensus is to remove iTunes from the equation. I do that. I resubscribe to all of my podcasts on my phone. I go through the tedium of downloading all the old episodes, clicking each episode one-by-one since there is no button to "download all". It works, sort of, but episodes don't sync across all devices. Finally, I decide I'd be content if it just worked on ONE device.
2. I resubscribe to all my podcasts on my iphone only.
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I like to download lectures and talks and audio books from other sources than iTunes.
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