# Delete listened podcasts

**URL:** <https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411>\
**Category:** Feature request\
**Created:** [April 9, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411 "2024-04-09T11:37:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/fergal_daly/32/1459_2.png) [@Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Fergal_Daly)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411/1 "2024-04-09T11:37:47Z")

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I switched off auto-delete some time ago (see [Less aggressive auto-delete](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/less-aggressive-auto-delete/4410)). Now I have 100s of played episodes on my phone and no good way to delete them.

There’s no way to delete all of the played episodes. In fact there doesn’t even seem to be a way to delete episodes in bulk at all.

**Suggested solution** :

Have a way to bulk-delete downloads that are played.

**Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details** :

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**Author:** ![Nilex](https://forum.antennapod.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nilex](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Nilex)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411/2 "2024-04-09T12:27:21Z")

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I assume you can see the list of episodes? If so, long press on one of the episodes and select Multi select at the bottom of the screen.

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**Author:** ![Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/fergal_daly/32/1459_2.png) [@Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Fergal_Daly)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411/3 "2024-04-09T13:11:02Z")

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There are 457 episodes in my download list. I would really rather have the computer do the tedious work.

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**Author:** ![Nilex](https://forum.antennapod.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nilex](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Nilex)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411/4 "2024-04-09T13:24:18Z")

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So go into the Downloads screen, long press on the first episode, select Multi select and then select all of the episodes and delete. It’s 15 seconds of work.

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**Author:** ![Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/fergal_daly/32/1459_2.png) [@Fergal\_Daly](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Fergal_Daly)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/delete-listened-podcasts/4411/5 "2024-04-09T13:43:11Z")

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I didn’t want to delete all of the episodes because there are a bunch of unplayed episodes too. However there is a “select all below” option when I long press an episode while in multi-select mode. Not very discoverable but it worked. Thanks.