Iphone 11 - Mass deleting downloads (Podcast app)

placeholder · 27 Oct 2020 at 11:28

I am a moron.

I have a 128gb Iphone 11 and I enjoy listening to podcasts through the Apple App. However due to not paying attention I had them automatically downloading to the phone. I only realised this when I got the "Iphone full" message and saw that I had 87gb of podcast sitting on the phone! Obviously I have immediately changed settings so this doesn't happen automatically now.

I want to remain subscribed to all the podcasts and I want the episodes available to stream (and download the odd one here and there) but is there an easy way to clear all the downloads?

Feek · 27 Oct 2020 at 12:00

Delete the app and tell it to delete the data, that should do it for you. Then you can reinstall the app.

placeholder · 27 Oct 2020 at 12:02

Would I have to resubscribe to all the podcasts or will the reinstall retain the info but not the downloads?

Feek · 27 Oct 2020 at 12:08

I don't know, sorry. I stopped using the Apple podcast app ages ago and moved to Overcast. I do seem to remember that podcast subscriptions are synced to the cloud because they used to be the same on both my iMac and my iPhone but I really don't know whether removing the app would have any effect on that.

placeholder · 27 Oct 2020 at 12:28

No problem, just out of interest any particular reason for the switch to Overcast?

Feek · 27 Oct 2020 at 13:31

Aye, I found Apple Podcasts to be very unreliable and not syncing well. I could listen to a podcast on one device, only to have it reappear a few days later. The sort order kept changing, it just got on my nerves really. Overcast has been flawless.