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By default, Pocket Casts supports skipping through episodes, back 10 seconds and forward 45 seconds.

  1. Tap arrows/circles/tab-profile.svg Profile
  2. Tap Settings objects/actions/settings.svg
  3. Select General
  4. Edit the Skip forward  arrows/circles/miniplayer/skipforward.svgand Skip back arrows/circles/miniplayer/skipbackward.svg options

You can skip through episodes from the following locations:

Tap the mini player to open the full screen player.



Press the Home or Power buttons on your device to bring up the lock screen.


Pro Tip: Long press on the skip forward button on full screen player gives you an option to mark that episode played or move to the next episode in the queue.

Note: When remote skip chapter setting is toggled the skip forward button will skip the chapter. 

Note: If you are missing a skip back option in lock screen, you might have the extra playback actions toggled on.

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