# Swipe to Delete

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 8, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435 "2013-11-08T17:52:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435/1 "2013-11-08T17:52:38Z")

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On my iphone, using OS7, and the podcast app., I can no longer swipe to delete episodes from the library, I have to go to edit, making this a two step process. Is there a setting I can change, or is this an engineered improvement?

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435/2 "2013-11-08T18:59:16Z")

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Works for me. Swipe from right to left.

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**Author:** ![doverpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@doverpro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doverpro)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435/3 "2013-11-08T19:01:19Z")

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Swipe to the left.

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435/4 "2013-11-08T19:22:42Z")

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Didn’t for me. Reboot solved it.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swipe-to-delete/673435/5 "2013-11-10T06:28:51Z")

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If you’re at the **Now Playing** screen with the podcast’s picture displayed and you press the Episodes button at the very top right (three dots & lines) you’ll get a list of that podcast’s downloaded episodes, but for some reason you can’t delete them from there. You have to go back to the main **My Podcasts** screen (with multiple podcast title pictures displayed), select one of them, and swipe & delete them from that list. Kind of confusing & annoying…