When you want to remove episodes from a Smart Playlist or not show them on a podcast’s page, you can choose to archive them. Archiving will also delete the episode’s download file.
You can learn more about what archiving is and how it can be useful for you in this blog post.
- Swipe the episode row from right to left in an episode list or playlist.
- Or tap on an episode on any page, and tap Archive on the episode card. Please note: if you have Play Up Next On Tap enabled, you will need to long press an episode in Up Next to access its episode card.
- Tap Profile
- Tap the Settings cog
- Tap Auto Archive
- Played Episodes: choose whether episodes should be archived as soon as they are finished playing, at some point later, or never.
- Inactive Episodes: episodes are considered inactive when you haven’t played, downloaded or unarchived within a given period of time.
- Include Starred Episodes: if toggled on starred episodes will be auto archived, if toggled off starred episodes will not be auto archived.
- Go to that podcast’s page
- Tap the Settings cog
- Tap Auto Archive
- Toggle on Custom for This Podcast
- Archive Played Episodes: choose whether episodes should be archived as soon as they are finished playing, at some point later, or never.
- Archive Inactive Episodes: episodes are considered inactive when you haven’t played, downloaded or unarchived within a given period of time.
- Episode Limit: setting a limit will only keep the most recent 1, 2, 5, or 10 episodes, while archiving any that are older.
To show or hide episodes you’ve archived of a particular podcast tap Show Archived / Hide Archived on that podcast’s page.
This is also available as a global setting at Profile > settings cog > General > Archived Episodes.
- Swipe right to left over an archived episode in an episode list.
- Or tap the episode, then tap Unarchive.
- Or if all episodes of a podcast are archived, tap the vertical ellipsis and tap Unarchive All.