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How to Set Podcasts to Auto Delete From Your iPod

July 19, 2008 at 3:50 pm - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: gadgets, how-to, interactive media

I’m writing this in the event there are avid iPod/iTunes podcast users that, like me, didn’t know they can set iTunes to auto-delete podcasts after they have finished with them.

I listen to/watch anywhere from 2 to 10 podcasts every day. For years it has been a pet peeve of mine that I had to use iTunes to manually delete podcasts that I have listend to/watched in order to delete them from the iPod. I couldn’t understand why Apple didn’t provide an option on the iPod to delete podcasts I was finished with.

Turns out that unbeknownst to me, auto-podcast-delete functionality has been there for quite some time - just not how I expected. iTunes has had a function to do exactly what I wanted it to do - auto delete podcasts when finished - since version 4.9.