Unable to delete partially downloaded podcasts

Edit: My mistake, the podcast is still there! I think the author has 'cleaned' up their crappy listing and moved the podcast, so now I cannot complete the download and have a half completed podcase on the Ipod which I cannot remove

This does not work for partially downloaded podcasts unfortunately

Finally sorted - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3750382

Others have mentioned a full restore as a way to get rid of it, but everyone is hoping there's an alternative - that's a fairly involved method for what seems like a fairly straightforward issue.

to HGWade: Thank you Man!

Settings > General > Usage > Music > Swipe across the podcast > Delete button.

It work!

After trying practically everything, I pressed the square "stop" button beside the podcast, and I removed the entry. So, press the square "stop" button and see what happens. You may have to hold it down for a second or two.

My display looked like Lee Winder's screen shot posted to Twitter, and even included duplicate entries where one copy was streamed and the other was downloaded (via iTunes on my computer).

I'm not sure if it was because I first removed the podcasts from the iPhone 4 sync in iTunes, or if this method would work without unsynced podcasts. I'm having trouble recreating the conditions getting the extra podcast entries on my iPhone.

I'm adding this response to: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3750382 as well.

Posted the solution on another thread, thought I would put it here as well.

FINALLY figured it out without having to do a complete wipe and reload of your entire iphone/ipod. Hope I can explain this sequence correctly.

Settings > General > Usage > Music

Click the blue Edit button in the top right corner.

The little red circles with white bars in them appear, click the one next to the podcasts you want to delete (that have the partial downloads), hit delete and it will delete all of the content for that podcast. Then just redownload.

Magical.

Enjoy.

This one worked for me... thank you Big Fus. I know don't have to see Kevin Pollak's annoying hat anymore.

This doesnt work for podcasts showing up ready to download in itunes but i cant download the podcasts because theres an error. So, i see a "2" over the download tab at the bottom of the screen and cant rid of it!

Finally! This worked for me to after a partial podcast download from iTunes U.

it worked for me.. ios 5.1.1

the problem was introduced in my iphone when switching from WiFI to 3G .

I tried by removing the podcast app, downloads still showed in progress on the Itunes download tab. I then went in and removed all the podcasts from the Settings > General > Usage > Music by swiping and hitting the delete button. Even with all the podcasts removed it still showed the same downloads in the Itunes locked up. I powered off, and on the restart the downloads started to load, I then was able to swipe and hit delete on each of them. Powered off again and did a sync with the podcasts on my computer. I don't think I'll use the podcast app to avoid this issue in the future.

Thanks Man 😀

To HGWade, the first responder to this thread: I started to download the Sept Keynote videocast and decided the HD data was more than I wanted to allot to available bandwidth. It was opaque, how to get rid of this partial download. Thanks for the solution. This worked for me.

Also having the same issue as diskostu_muc. There is nothing in iTunes -> More -> Downloads. Deleting the podcast in Settings > General > Usage > Music just deletes the complete/good ones, but leaves the incomplete/grey ones. Please see attached screen shot. Podcast at the top is OK, all grey ones below are unresponsive. Ticket is still “Open” :-)