With its announcement to discontinue Google Podcasts last December 2023 comes the anticipated ‘Mark as Played’ option on YouTube Music for podcast episodes. Google discontinued Google Podcasts and migrated its podcasts to YouTube Music. However, many listeners missed the ease of marking each episode as played or done from the previous platform.
Seven months forward, Google is living up to its promises of giving users the “Mark as played” playback tool. YouTube Music is now rolling out the feature on each played podcast episode. Each time you open the overflow menu, you will see the message Mark as played or Mark as unplayed depending on the status of the episode.
This makes it much easier to listen and manage your podcasts library and see if you have played an episode or not. Unfortunately, the option is not available on the Now Playing UI.
Users have longed for the feature to appear on their YouTube Music app, as such has been integrated in other dedicated podcasting apps. It will be seen in the YouTube Music mobile app for Android and iOS devices and the web app.
