I currently have iTunes set to sync all unplayed episodes of all podcasts to my iPhone. (I'm a bit behind – there are nearly 70 of them.) Today I downloaded Apple's new Podcasts app, and was pleased to find that it "picked up" the podcasts that were already on the iPhone. I have listened to a few podcasts today, and just now synced to my Mac (twice). I was disappointed to find that the podcasts I had listened to were not marked as played, either in iTunes on the Mac, or in the stock Music app, and therefore not removed from the phone.
I can't seem to find any settings for the Podcasts app – either in the app or in the Settings app – that might affect this behaviour. Is there anything I can do to make the Podcasts app update the played status in the Music app or in iTunes without manually marking them as played or scrubbing through them?
Best Answer
I upgraded to iOS 6 yesterday, and it seems that this has been resolved itself, either through updates to iTunes or Podcasts.app (or both).
When I sync with my Mac, the podcasts I had listened to in Podcasts.app were correctly marked as played in iTunes. Yay!