Automatically remove episodes from the inbox that are older than 7 days

Feature request
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… or 2 weeks,1 month, 3 months, etc!

Hello all,

My inbox gets quite full on a weekly basis as I have a bunch of podcasts subscribed.

My only option to clean it up is the Remove all from inbox, but I would actually like to keep the most recent ones, from the past week let’s say.

So why not provide the option for episodes older than x time to be automatically removed from the inbox by the app?

It would make it easier for me to find the new stuff quickly, plus keep the inbox neatly clean without any input from me!

Thank you for the attention.

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This does not specifically address your request, but my flow is to glance at the InBox and decide which episodes to:

  1. Listen to (click download, which removes them from the InBox)
  2. Will never listen to (slide them to the left, which removes them from the InBox)
  3. May eventually listen to (leave them in the inbox for now)

I find this flow works well for me, and I prefer it to an arbitrary deletion date that could trigger at an arbitrary time).

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I would also love this feature. I follow the basic 1, 2, 3 flow above, but often the “may eventually listen” group piles up in my inbox. I currently have 420 items there. Just scrolling to the bottom is a pain. Most of the podcasts in my feed are out of date in well under a month.

This could just be a manual step (maybe click a “delete older than” button, maybe a way to multi-select everything below the clicked item) or an automatic setting to remove items from the inbox that are older than 30, 90, etc. with “never” being the default. I could see this being more complex (say with settings per subscription, or the ability to “lock” items in the inbox) but a simple solution should do fine.

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Selecting everything below is already possible by long-press multi-select and then tapping “select all below” in the menu

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Ahhh…that menu item should be useful, but is sure a bit hard to find. I would not have expected that when I entered mult-select mode that the menu at the top right would then change to have new options. Down to 58 items in my inbox now (removed everything before Dec 2025).

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