Easy Way to Delete Podcasts from iPhone and iTouch
Not sure if I have mentioned but I really, really , really hate iTunes. I have a Creative Zen Mp3 player
that I love and usually use this for most of my MP3 playback. Another plus to using the Creative Zen is battery life is 20+ hours AND GET *MAYBE* 8 hours with my iPhone
I totally love my iPhone for pretty much everything else and would never part with it. I absolutely hates iTunes however. One feature that I do like about iPhone is the ability to download podcasts over-wi-fi. I can download my favourite podcasts directly to the phone without having to deal with iStore or iTunes basically with just one click.
I will say it it again:
I HATE iTunes!
Remove Podcasts From iPhone and iTouch
I have 44 episodes of my favourite podcasts on my iPhone and I can not get them off. Till now. Nothing I do in iTunes will remove them. I have spent about 3 hours searching for a fix with no luck. Today I accidentally found an EASY quick way o get rid of my podcasts and best of all its iTunes free.
It is so easy.
When in Podcast mode on iPhone/iTouch and you have list if various podcasts, go to the list of single type of podcast. The, swipe RIGHT to LEFT with finger across the podcast you want to delete and voila!!! A red delete button will appear and you can just delete.
Haven’t checked yet but may also work for music.
If there is someway to get rid of podcasts in iTunes, I still would like to know!
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I am kind of torn on the whole iTunes thing. On the one hand, it is, at least in regards to the PC, very bloated. I also think the way that Apple expects people to interact with their devices, like iPods and iPhones, is much too restrictive and have issue with their stance on licensing and digital rights management, although the latter is getting better.
With that said, I think that they have innovated the concept of the music store. It is possible to find most any song imaginable and I think $1 is probably a fair price.
iTunes also provides a platform where artists can directly sell their songs, bypassing the record labels, although you do have to give Apple a cut. This is the major selling point for me, because I think the ability of a band to market and sell their music in this manner is a big step in the right direction.
I don’t have an iPhone but I do have an iPod. To delete a podcast from my iPod using iTunes what I do is:
1) Delete the podcast from the iTunes on my computer.
2) After the deletion I plug in my iPod to sync and iTunes automatically syncs my iPod to have exactly what I have in my iTunes (which now does not have the podcast).
Hope this helps!
Try this. Go into Itunes, synch up and find the podcast - under the advanced tab you can convert it to an acc file - you should be able to delete it then… I think.
Good luck
Thank you! Thank you! I’ve had some phantom podcasts that I’ve been trying to remove from my iPhone for months now and was utterly unable to. I’m very grateful to you for pointing out this easy fix.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to delete podcasts from my itouch for a while. Thanks for the article.
THANKS! I have spent hours trying to figure out how to delete podcasts. I even called Apple tech and they didn’t know! Obviously this was built into the system so why can’t you find it anywhere in the manuals?
Thanks
This befuddled me for a while. Everyone keeps saying just delete it. Well, you can’t. On some computers you can just delete. On others, you cannot. Here’s what I finally did and it worked.
Click and drag the file into your trash can on the desktop.
Let me know if that works.
i don’t like this 3g. i can’t get a wi fi network and i can’t delete podcasts from it and i can’t even access my podcasts on it.
Omg thanks so much what you posted worked and am elated
how can i set the iphone up to delete those podcasts that have been listened to, and yet keep those that i have not?