If you have received an unusual download detection notification or if you'd like to temporarily revoke access for one of your members, you can pause their feed. Once a member's feed is paused, their RSS feed title and description can be updated and access to all episodes is revoked.

You can customise the text displayed in a member's paused feed under settings - restricted access and then unfurl the 'Paused RSS Feed Settings' caret menu.

Here's what is displayed for a paused member in Apple Podcasts with the default settings:

You can pause a member's feed via the UI by navigating to the member's management page and clicking pause here:

The pause button will change to an 'un-pause' if you wish to reinstate a member's access.

You can also pause a member's feed by using this management API endpoint.

Unpause by using this management API endpoint.