How To Avoid Downloading 300 Episodes Of Planet Money

NPR

Published February 5, 2015 at 5:19 PM EST

We've had some technical problems with our podcast feed recently. Some of you had hundreds of old episodes automatically pushed to your phone. Sorry!

As a temporary fix, we shortened our feed to just a few episodes.

Next Tuesday, we will update our feed to include 300 old episodes. (Some people like to go back through our archive.)

To avoid automatically downloading hundreds of old episodes, we recommend a quick change to the settings on your phone.

Podcast apps generally allow you to limit the number of episodes you download. You should limit the number of Planet Money episodes to something reasonable. Like, say, one. Or three. Even five. Don't limit by time ("past week," or whatever).

Here's how to do this on Apple's Podcasts app on the iPhone:

Step 1: Open the Podcasts app

Step 2: Open Planet Money

Step 3: Tap the Planet Money logo up top

Step 4: Hit Settings

Step 5: Select Limit Episodes

Step 6: Select 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 Most Recent. Note: Do not select any of the time-based options! Do not leave it on the Default!

In the meantime, you can find all our old episodes on our podcast page. It's an infinite scroll so keep scrolling down.