How to synchronise the play status of podcasts between iphone and itunes?

Hi there, thank you for reading,

I am annoyed now for a few months about the disfunctional synchronizing between my iphone and itunes when it's about the play status of podcasts.

I get new podcasts in every new day and i play many, so it's essential to see immediately which are new and which i have listened to or have half-listened.

This functionality was there when podcasts were still played in the Music app on the iphone, but now it's moved to a podcast app, it doesn't. Weird.

I run the most recent software and the hardware is fine. If you have any to get around the daily manual synchronisation, please let me know.