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I currently have iTunes set to sync all unplayed episodes of all podcasts to my iPhone. (I'm a bit behind - there are nearly 70 of them.) Today I downloaded Apple's new Podcasts app, and was pleased to find that it "picked up" the podcasts that were already on the iPhone. I have listened to a few podcasts today, and just now synced to my Mac (twice). I was disappointed to find that the podcasts I had listened to were not marked as played, either in iTunes on the Mac, or in the stock Music app, and therefore not removed from the phone.

I can't seem to find any settings for the Podcasts app - either in the app or in the Settings app - that might affect this behaviour. Is there anything I can do to make the Podcasts app update the played status in the Music app or in iTunes without manually marking them as played or scrubbing through them?

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  • I was as disappointed as you were to find that there's no apparent sync between Podcast subscriptions nor played/unplayed status back to the desktop iTunes, even when both accounts are signed in under the same AppleID and have iCloud enabled. I started a thread over on the Apple Support Forums about it, hope it gets some attention over there: discussions.apple.com/thread/4061461
    – user24538
    Jun 27, 2012 at 12:18
  • @LessPop_MoreFizz thanks, I wanted to add that tag originally but I don't have enough rep over here....
    – Jon
    Jul 2, 2012 at 6:52

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I upgraded to iOS 6 yesterday, and it seems that this has been resolved itself, either through updates to iTunes or Podcasts.app (or both).

When I sync with my Mac, the podcasts I had listened to in Podcasts.app were correctly marked as played in iTunes. Yay!

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  • Did you sync over WiFI or USB?
    – mmmmmm
    Nov 25, 2012 at 12:38
  • Both, I've since deleted Podcasts.app and gone back to the Music app because Podcasts.app is (censored)...
    – Jon
    Nov 26, 2012 at 0:17

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