How to cancel YouTube Premium
Last verified 2026-06-16 · official source
Difficulty: EasyTime: About 2 to 5 minutesOnlineIn-app
Go to the YouTube Premium cancellation page →If you subscribed through an app store: App-store billing matters. If you joined via the YouTube iOS app you are billed by Apple and must cancel in Apple's Subscriptions settings (Settings, your name, Subscriptions, or in-app via Manage Apple Subscriptions); refunds go through Apple. If you joined via Google Play on Android you cancel in Google Play account settings; refunds go through Google Play. Direct Google web/account subscriptions are canceled at youtube.com/paid_memberships. Roku and Amazon are not standard YouTube Premium billing channels.
Steps to cancel YouTube Premium
- FIRST determine how you are billed. On a computer go to youtube.com/paid_memberships and open your membership details. If it shows you joined through Apple (the YouTube iOS app), you must cancel through Apple (see the iPhone steps). If it shows you joined through Google Play, cancel in Google Play. Otherwise (billed directly by Google) use the web steps below.
- WEB / COMPUTER (billed by Google): Sign in to your Google account and go to youtube.com/paid_memberships.
- Open your membership (for example 'YouTube Premium') by clicking 'Manage membership' if shown.
- Click 'Deactivate'.
- Click 'Continue' to proceed past any pause or save offer. If YouTube offers to pause your membership instead of canceling, decline it and continue.
- Select a reason for canceling, then click 'Next'.
- Click 'Yes, cancel' to confirm.
- Confirm it worked: youtube.com/paid_memberships should show the membership ending, you will see an on-screen confirmation, and you should receive a cancellation confirmation email shortly after.
- ANDROID (billed by Google): Open the YouTube app, tap your profile picture, tap 'Paid memberships', tap the membership, tap 'Continue' to cancel, select a reason, tap 'Next', then tap 'Yes, cancel'. If you have access through a Google Play subscription, cancel within your Google Play account settings instead.
- IPHONE / IPAD (joined via the YouTube iOS app, billed by Apple): In the YouTube app tap your profile picture, tap 'Purchases and memberships', tap the membership, tap 'Manage Apple Subscriptions', tap the subscription, then tap 'Cancel'. You can also cancel from iPhone Settings: open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, select YouTube Premium, then tap Cancel Subscription.
- IPHONE / IPAD billed through Google (not Apple): you cannot cancel on the iOS device. Use a non-iOS device such as a computer and follow the web steps above.
Watch for the save offer. YouTube's main retention play is the 'Pause' option (1 to 6 months) shown as an alternative to canceling. Pause only takes effect after your current billing cycle, is not available on annual plans or for Apple-billed users, and resumes automatically. To truly cancel, decline the pause and continue through to selecting a reason and clicking 'Yes, cancel'.
Things to watch out for
- YouTube Premium has no cancellation phone line. Cancellation is entirely self-serve online or in-app.
- WHERE you signed up controls where you cancel. If you joined through the YouTube iOS app you are billed by Apple and MUST cancel in Apple's subscription settings, not on YouTube. If you joined through Google Play, cancel in Google Play. Canceling in the wrong place will not stop the charge.
- iPhone/iPad users who are billed through Google (not Apple) cannot cancel on the iOS device at all and must use a computer or other non-iOS device.
- No prorated refund: your benefits continue until the end of the current billing period and you are not refunded for the days between when you cancel and when the period ends.
- Free trial: you must cancel before the trial end date or your membership auto-renews at the full price. If you cancel during the trial you keep access until the trial's final day. A temporary authorization charge may appear when the trial starts; it is not processed and disappears within 1 to 14 days.
- Retention 'save offer' = Pause. YouTube offers a Pause option (1 to 6 months) instead of canceling. Pause only takes effect after the current billing cycle. Pause is NOT available for annual plans or for memberships billed through Apple. To actually cancel, decline the pause and continue to 'Yes, cancel'.
- Annual / prepaid plans: no refund for the unused portion if you cancel partway through.
- Watch for duplicate subscriptions: if you accidentally subscribed through more than one method (for example web and Apple), each one must be canceled separately.
Refunds
No prorated or partial refunds. Benefits run to the end of the paid period and you are not refunded for the remaining days after canceling. Refunds are not available for partially used prepaid (for example annual) plans. Google may issue a refund only in limited cases, such as when videos or features related to your purchase do not work. If you were billed through Apple, refunds must be requested from Apple under Apple's refund policy; if billed through Google Play, refunds go through Google Play.
Verified against Google's official YouTube Help (support.google.com) in June 2026. YouTube Premium is fully self-serve to cancel online or in-app with no phone call required. The most important step is checking your billing source first, since Apple-billed and Google Play-billed subscriptions cannot be canceled on YouTube itself.