How to Delete Stations on Pandora

To delete a station in the Pandora iPhone app, open My Collection, swipe left on the station, and tap Delete. If you have Pandora Premium, touch and hold the station instead, tap the highlighted Collected checkmark, and then tap Delete to confirm.

Version scope: the current Pandora app on iPhone and iPad, including iOS 27, following Pandora’s guide to using the iOS app. Pandora says its app needs iOS 15 or later and is only available in the United States. The steps depend on your plan: Free and Pandora Plus listeners swipe, while Premium subscribers use the Collected checkmark. The Pandora website and Android phones are covered further down.

What Happens When You Delete a Station

A Pandora station is saved to your account, not to your phone. When you delete one, it disappears from My Collection everywhere you sign in with that account, including the website, other phones, and smart TVs or car systems that use the same login. You don’t need to repeat the steps on each device.

Pandora doesn’t have a trash folder or an undo button for stations. If you delete one by mistake, you can rebuild it from the same artist or song, as explained in the FAQ below.

If you only want a station to sound different, or you just want it out of Shuffle, you don’t have to delete it. You can edit the station or take it out of Shuffle instead. Both options are covered near the end.

Delete a Pandora Station on iPhone (Free and Pandora Plus)

Use these steps if you listen with a free account or a Pandora Plus subscription.

1. Open the Pandora app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Collection at the bottom of the screen. Your stations appear in a list. Stay on this list; swiping doesn’t work from inside a station’s page or the Now Playing screen.
3. If the list is long, tap the sort option above the Shuffle bar (it usually says Recent) and choose A – Z. Your stations are now in alphabetical order.
4. Swipe left on the station you want to remove. A Delete button appears on the right side of the row.

5. Tap Delete. If Pandora asks you to confirm, tap Delete again. The station disappears from your list.

Delete a Pandora Station on iPhone (Pandora Premium)

Premium turns My Collection into a library that can hold stations, songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts. Instead of swiping, you remove a station by “uncollecting” it.

1. Open the Pandora app and tap My Collection at the bottom of the screen.
2. To see only your stations, filter your collection by Stations. Premium sorts your collection by most recently played, so the filter makes a specific station easier to find. You can also search for the station by name.
3. Touch and hold the station name. A menu of options opens.
4. Tap the highlighted Collected checkmark. Pandora asks whether you want to delete the station.

5. Tap Delete. The station is removed from My Collection.

Delete a Station on the Pandora Website

The website is handy when you want to clear out several stations with a mouse and a bigger screen. These steps follow Pandora’s help article on creating, editing, and deleting stations, and they’re the same for every plan.

1. Go to pandora.com in a web browser and sign in.
2. Click My Collection at the top of the page.
3. Hover your pointer over the album art of the station you want to remove. An ellipsis (three dots) appears.
4. Click the ellipsis, then select Remove from your collection.

5. Confirm if prompted. The station disappears from your collection on the web, and from the app the next time it refreshes.

Pandora doesn’t offer a way to select several stations at once, so repeat these steps for each station you want gone.

Delete a Station on Android

The Android app uses a long press for every plan, as described in Pandora’s Android help page.

1. Open the Pandora app and tap My Collection.
2. Press and hold the station you want to remove.
3. On a free or Pandora Plus account, tap Delete. On Premium, tap the highlighted Collected checkmark, then tap Delete when prompted.

Take a Station Out of Shuffle Instead

If a station keeps coming up when you shuffle but you still want it in your collection, remove it from Shuffle rather than deleting it. In the iPhone app:

1. Open My Collection. On Free and Plus, swipe the Shuffle bar from right to left and tap the pencil. On Premium, filter by Stations and tap the pencil to the right of Shuffle stations.
2. Tap the stations you want to leave out so they’re no longer selected.
3. Tap Save in the top-right corner. The station stays in My Collection but no longer plays in Shuffle.

If You Can’t Delete a Station

• Shuffle is playing. Pandora won’t let you edit or delete individual stations from the Now Playing screen or while Shuffle is active. Stop Shuffle, go back to My Collection, and try again.
• Swiping does nothing. Swiping is the Free and Plus method, and it only works on the My Collection list. If you have Premium, touch and hold the station and use the Collected checkmark instead.
• You can’t find the station. On Free and Plus, switch the sort to A – Z. On Premium, filter by Stations or search for the station name.
• The app looks different from these steps. Update Pandora from the App Store. Open the App Store, tap your profile picture at the top right, and look for Pandora in the list of available updates. If your iPhone is older than iOS 15, Pandora’s current app won’t install.
• A deleted station comes back on the website. Pandora says this can happen if you open the site from an old bookmark that points to a specific station. Change the bookmark so it goes to plain https://www.pandora.com/ with nothing after the slash, then reload the page.
• The station still shows on your TV or in your car. Close and reopen Pandora on that device, or sign out and back in, so it reloads your collection from your account.

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