Feature: Ask the iTunes Guy

Kirk McElhearn answers your iTunes questions

Tunes 12.4 is out, and there are lots of questions about the major and minor changes to this version of the app. In this week’s column, I discuss one question about a podcast view that has been removed from iTunes. I also look at a question about backups, and explain how I got my iPad Pro to load my iCloud Music Library library.

Where are my recent podcasts?

There used to be a Recent Updates section for podcasts in iTunes. I could browse it and see which podcast episodes had been updated recently. Is this gone in the latest version of iTunes?

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In the past, if you were viewing My Podcasts, there was a Recent Updates entry at the top of the podcasts column, and you could see podcasts as you say, from this week, this month, and so on. Unfortunately, that has been removed from iTunes 12.4.

If you select Podcasts from the Media Picker (the menu near the top left of the iTunes window), and then click Stations, you may see Most Recent. This is a default station that iTunes creates when you first launch it. It lists the newest episodes from your podcasts. Click the Settings button, and then