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hey guys Jason Cipriani here a CNET how-to contributor and today we're going to take a quick look at a neat tip for the podcast app on iOS Apple released this a while back and some users loved it some users hate it either way the tip we're gonna cover today is pretty handy and it's how to add any podcast to the podcast app on iOS now when you launch the app you don't have anything subscribed to in here you haven't synced its iTunes or you haven't added anything it tells you you can browser subscribe to free episodes and the podcast catalog or top stations now that means you either go through the catalog or the stop stations link here to browse podcasts what it doesn't tell you is you can actually subscribe to any podcast as long as you have a direct link to that podcast by using the search built here so I've already copied a URL or a link to a podcast to my clipboard I'm gonna paste that in and as you can see it's too seen it's Apple by the non iTunes version and we're gonna go ahead and hit search then be prompted to subscribe to podcast so as you can see here it shows me the direct link to that podcast make sure I want to subscribe to it if I tap Subscribe it has a podcast for me now I added that without going through iTunes as you saw the link wasn't the iTunes link and this will work for any podcast you have a direct link to you just have to pull down hit the search field enter the URL search for it and subscribe once again this is Jason Cipriani was seen at how to and now is how to subscribe to any podcast in the podcast app on iOS make sure to visit us at how to see Netcom for more great tech tips just like this one you