ITunes podcast sync help

Hi, this is concerning Podcasts. If I want to keep everything on my iPhone "clean" - only unplayed podcasts exist on phone and iTunes after syncing procedure it seems necessary to go through the following steps:
1. Sync -- to update iTunes "played" count
2. Refresh -- to removed played podcasts from iTunes & download new podcasts
3. Sync - to remove played podcasts from iPhone
Is this really the way it works? Is there no setting in the iPhone or iTunes that makes the Sync delete all played podcasts on the iPhone directly - so step "1" would not be needed?
Please tell me there is a better way!
Thanks

In iTunes you can select your iPhone and then look at the podcasts tab. There you have the option to sync only unplayed episodes with your iPhone. In the podcasts section of iTunes you can change the settings so that only unplayed podcasts will be kept and also set the refresh rate. So, if the refresh rate is once a day for example, once a day iTunes will check for new podcasts and if there is a new one download it and delete any older ones. Now, you can use your iPhone in the following way:
Listen to Podcast episode 1 on your phone. Lets say you finish it.
iTunes checks for a new podcast during the day, while your at work for example, and downloads episode 2. Episode 1 is kept because as far as iTunes knows you haven't listened to it.
You get home and click 'sync' in iTunes. At this point iTunes finds out you have listened to episode 1 on your phone and deletes it from the phone and iTunes. Since episode 2 has not been played it adds it to your phone
I think this is the behavior you were asking for. This reduces the three steps you described to just one.

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