I often listen to podcasts as I fall to sleep. The result is a podcast may finish playing without me actually having finished it. The annoying thing is the Podcast then removes the episode thinking it's played & no longer needed.
Is there a way to stop this behavior. I would rather the app simply keep the last X episodes, regardless if it believe they had been listed to or not?
I know I can add them back, but it's somewhat tedious to keep doing that.
I tried looking in both the settings for the Podcast app & while it's connected to iTunes, but couldn't find anything.
Best Answer
In iTunes on the computer when the iOS device is connected choose the device in the sidebar. This will goive a page with a menu on top allow select od Podcast. Like this
The second oval shows that I have selected to sync podcasts automatically keeping the 5 least recent unplayed.
Alter these options to either keep updates manual or choose new rather than unplayed.