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How do I subscribe to a podcast on my iPhone?I read your earlier article on How to subscribe to a podcast in iTunes but am not entirely clear how to get those podcast episodes onto my iPhone automatically. How do I subscribe to a podcast on my iPhone? It's always delightful to have people actually want to hear the podcasts that I'm involved with, so thanks mucho for the question! I co-host two tech discussion podcasts, in case you're coming into this new: Boulder Open Podcast [iTunes link], which is a 5-10 minute weekly chat between Michael Sitarzewski and myself, and the longer, more in-depth Three Insight [iTunes link] where Michael and I add PR pro Doyle Albee to the mix. If we had Doyle as a guest on B.O.P. that'd cause massive confusion, so we've never done that. Yet. :-) To subscribe to a podcast on your iPhone you can actually do so directly by starting with the iTunes app (go to More --> Podcasts and search for us), but if you were following along on my earlier tutorial on how to subscribe to a podcast in iTunes 10, you've already got the episodes downloading onto your computer. The trick is to ensure that the episodes copy onto your iPhone when you sync. Easily done! Plug in your phone, then look closely at the options along the top: ![]() See "Podcasts"? Click on it. ![]() As you can see, I haven't chosen to sync any podcasts. Not good. To do so, all I need to do is click on the checkbox next to "Sync Podcasts" and you'll see all the default settings are exactly what you want: ![]() That's all there is to it. Next time you sync up your phone you'll find that you have a podcast waiting to listen. To find it, tap on the "iPod" app then tap on "More" on the lower right corner: ![]() Now tap on "Podcasts" and you'll see my Boulder Open Podcast queued up to listen: ![]() Tap the show icon and you'll see the episode name too: ![]() Oh, and you can review our back episodes easily by tapping on "Get More Episodes..." on the iPhone: ![]() So there ya go. Hope that's helpful, and thanks for listening!
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Tagged: apple iphone 4, iphone 3gs, ipod podcast, podcast, podcasting, subscribe podcast Previous: How do I subscribe to a Podcast in iTunes 10? Next: How do I unsubscribe or delete a podcast? Reader Comments To Date: 4Emilie said, on June 16, 2011 1:56 PM:
Hi there! Found your post through Google and had a quick question. You said, "To subscribe to a podcast on your iPhone you can actually do so directly by starting with the iTunes app." Do you actually mean subscribe -- as in, the iPhone will actually update itself automatically? I am in the iTunes app on my iPhone 4 and it just ends up showing me the podcast with all the episodes and the option to download them. I can't see an option to subscribe. Thanks for clarifying if you can! Dave Taylor said, on June 18, 2011 5:57 PM:
Hi Emilie, sorry for the lack of clarity. You can't - as far as I know - subscribe to a podcast directly on your iPhone and have the new episodes automatically show up. Sounds excellent, though. Alex said, on December 2, 2011 10:00 PM:
I do all my listening of podcasts right on my iPod touch. While i like iTunes in theory; I almost never ever use it in real life. on my iPod (it will work for iPhone too) I use an app I downloaded from the app store called "Instacast" in which I subscribe to, listen to, everything to podcasts with. I used to use and app called "Podcaster" which worked really well too, but had a few weeks of glitches with one specific CBC podcast I like, and that's when I switched to Instacast. Podcaster is all good, I just use Instacast now. When I wake up in the morning, I just open the app and it automatically downloads all the new podcasts for me. (It saves them to iPod in case I'm working somewhere w/ no wifi that day.)
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Can you answer the original question? How do you subscribe to a podcast on the iPhone? Not how to subscribe in iTunes and then syncing to the iPhone.