Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-ios

Intermittent Blank Space on Episode Details Page

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Description

### Description

Users occasionally experience excessive blank space at the bottom of the episode details page. This issue has been observed across multiple podcasts, including "The Waveform Podcast" and "The Besties."

The bug seems to be triggered when swiping to the details pane of the currently playing episode. The problem is intermittent and can sometimes be replicated by minimizing and reopening the player screen multiple times.

**Expected Behavior**: The episode details page should consistently display the correct length of content without any excessive blank space at the bottom, regardless of how many times the player screen is minimized or reopened.

User's report: 8579015-zen
> The podcast was the Waveform Podcast, the episode was “FBI Tales & More MKBHD Stories,”

Logs attached and time in the podcast: 11:52

### Step-by-step reproduction instructions

Note: this isn't easily reproduced. But based on the following screen recording, the general steps would be:

1. Open a podcast, for example https://pca.st/MKBHD (Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast)
2. Open the `FBI Tales & More Untold MKBHD Stories` (`E241`)
3. Observe the Details to show the correct space
4. Minimize the Player
5. Maximize the Player
6. Observe there are lots of blank space at the bottom

### Screenshots or screen recording

Screen Recording:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4d631593-c8b8-4727-8990-e95e81996d67

### Did you search for existing bug reports?

- [X] I have searched for existing bug reports.

### Device, Operating system, and Pocket Casts app version

App Version: 7.69
Device: iPhone13,3 ([iPhone 12 Pro](https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717))
OS: 17.6

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