I like to keep some channels like a library on my hard drive that I may return to at some stage and I have others where I will never listen to them again and am happy for them to be deleted. I have a number of podcasts subscriptions. Then all of a sudden the podcast episodes return and show as unplayed.and therefore begin downloading ually when I am busy doing something else. I have performed the equivalent steps on the iphone itself. I have marked them so that they are not saved podcasts.
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No matter what I do itunes keeps trying to download long dead and dormant episodes I do not want or need. I've spent so many hours trying to sort this out with my own collection. Podcast syncing simply has never worked for as long as I've been using the Podcasts app (going back to iOS 6). I've tried turning syncing on and off, signing in and out of iCloud, etc. It quite literally does not work in any way whatsoever. I feel like I must be doing something wrong or am missing a setting somewhere, because if not, I can't believe that podcast syncing is this unreliable.
If I'm partway through an episode, the playback position doesn't sync between my iPhone and iTunes.If I've played through a podcast episode on my iPhone, the same episode in iTunes won't be marked as played (and vice versa).
Why, then, does podcast syncing simply not work? Podcast syncing is enabled in iTunes, and the "Sync Subscriptions" setting is turned on in the settings for the Podcasts app on my iPhone. I'm signed into the same iCloud account on both my Mac and iPhone. I'm running iTunes 11.1, iOS 7.1, and Podcasts 2.0.2 for iOS, the latest versions of each.