Archiving Episodes
When you want to remove episodes from an episode filter 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 find more information on Archiving in this blog post.
To archive episodes manually
- Swipe right to left over an episode in an episode list or filter
- Or tap on an episode, and tap the archive button
- Or long press on an episode in a list and tap the archive button – you can also tap other episodes in the list to select those for archiving as well
- Or long press on an episode in a list, then long press again, choose Select all above or Select all below, then tap the archive button
- Or long press on an episode in a list, then tap the vertical ellipsis, tap Select all, tap any episodes you don’t wish to archive to deselect them, then tap the archive button. If you wish to deselect all to start again, tap the vertical ellipsis and tap Select none to clear your selections
- Or on a podcast’s page, tap the vertical ellipsis and tap Archive All to archive all episodes of that podcast
- Or on a podcast’s page, tap the vertical ellipsis and tap Archive All Played to archive all completely played episodes. This option will only appear if you have completely played episodes in the list to archive
On the full player you can add archiving via the customizable toolbar to be included in the four most used actions. Otherwise you can find the archive option via the vertical ellipsis.
To auto archive episodes for all podcast subscriptions
- 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
To auto archive episodes per podcast
- 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 > Show archived.To unarchive episodes
- Swipe right to left over the 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
Tip:
Archiving an episode doesn’t change the playing status, so you won’t lose where you’re up to, and you’ll also always know whether you’ve played something or not.