Unable to delete or remove podcasts

Sadly, no. I have not figured it out. It has gotten worse and now I cannot delete subscribed podcasts. They just continue to show up on my steadily increasingly cluttered app. I have “reported a concern” 30+ times. I have emailed Apple support. Apparently it is not important to them. Very disappointed.

I re-installed the podcast app. This allowed those podcast episodes that I had previously attempted to delete to disappear. However, the problem persists with other episodes that I have finished. I have noticed now that the podcast episodes will allow me to attempt to delete them, but will not disappear. This only now seems to occur with podcasts that I have directly downloaded by selecting them, and not podcast episodes that downloaded automatically as part of a subscription.

I have "Reported a concern" through the app about a dozen times now. No response. Please get this fixed.

Thank you for the reply. While this is true, it is also true that the podcast then reappears about five seconds after being deleted.

Similar to the “Remove download” option, it can be executed as a process but does not actually work.

'Sadly, that function would allow me to delete all the podcasts in one show, but not to select which episodes to delete.

If I delete the entire podcast from the device and iTunes on the computer, they seem to disappear, but then I lose all of the other episodes of the podcast and need to find and download those episodes again, and then am again unable to delete them without deleting the entire podcast.

I am now deleting the entire app and re-installing it. Hopefully this will work, but more to follow.

Hi, thank you for the suggestion. I am still not able to delete podcasts under the Episodes list. I can select "Mark as Played" or "Remove Download" under that list, but the podcast still shows up with the little "+" next to it indicating it is still in the list, but needs to be downloaded to listen to it.

However, based on your suggestion, I think I figured a workaround. If, under the Episodes list, I unmark them as played and download them, then go to the Downloaded Episodes list, and go through the steps of marking as played and removing download, it removes them from both lists. This hasn't been perfect, but has worked most of the time. Out of the 20-25 podcast episodes I had to remove, all but one were removed this way. Thanks!

I wish they would "update" the app to an old version that worked and quit futzing with it.

Anyone?

Anyone?