iPod Touch – Delete Video Trick
by: George Starcher, Associate Editor
I stumbled onto this last night after I watched the last episode of Heroes I had converted onto my iPod Touch. Want to delete video content from the touch directly? Press and hold the video in the list, after a second slide your finger to the left. It will expand out a delete button. Press delete and poof.
The weird thing is that it doesn’t delete it from iTunes. Just the iPod and only till you resync if you have your sync rules setup to put it there. Like in my case it is set to sync all unplayed tv shows. Since I deleted it, the fact I watched it does not get sync’d back to iTunes. Thus it goes right back on my iPod.
I suspect this option is best if you need room while on the road. Such as if you wanted to buy music from the online music store and needed space. A quick way to delete a video to make that space.
Great post George. This also works on the iPhone by the way.
Comment by Administrator — December 8, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
Great tip! I was wondering how I made that delete button appear…
Comment by barfbite — June 23, 2008 @ 7:22 am
Worked for me. Thanks for the tip.
Comment by Ash Chuan — December 12, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
Yea! Thank you so much. My son added a scary pod cast thing -”haunted” and we both wanted it off his touch. Your directions worked! Thanks!
Comment by Tiffany — December 28, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
Its worked. But when i am restarting the ipod. its still there. I am not connect to the Itunes.
Comment by Toss — January 20, 2009 @ 4:43 am
It worked!
Comment by Samuel Valles — June 7, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
It worked!
Comment by Samuel Valles — June 7, 2010 @ 7:55 pm
thank you sooooo much, i had some pretty weird stuff on there that doesn’t even show up on my itunes library ( i have no clue how it got there in the first place). so glad to be rid of them!
Comment by Bluechild — August 11, 2010 @ 4:18 pm