How to cancel a subscription on iPhone or Android
On iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, choose the subscription and tap Cancel Subscription (Apple). On Android, open your subscriptions in Google Play, choose the subscription and tap Cancel subscription (Google). If it isn’t in either list, another company may bill you, so cancel with that company.
On iPhone or iPad
- Open Settings and tap your name.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Tap the subscription you want to cancel.
- Tap Cancel Subscription. You may need to scroll to find it.
Apple says that if there is no Cancel button, or you see an expiration message in red text, the subscription is already cancelled. On a Mac, open the App Store, go to your name and then Subscriptions, select the subscription and click Cancel Subscription. On a Windows PC, use the Apple Music or Apple TV app.
On Android
- On your Android device, go to your subscriptions in Google Play.
- Select the subscription you want to cancel.
- Tap Cancel subscription.
- Follow the instructions on screen.
Google notes that uninstalling an app does not cancel its subscription. After you cancel, you keep access for the time you have already paid for: in Google’s example, a yearly plan bought on January 1 and cancelled on July 1 stays active until December 31 and isn’t charged again. Some apps also let you pause payments instead, for between a week and three months depending on the app.
Can’t find the subscription?
- Check the receipt. Search your email for receipts from Apple and check which Apple Account each names. If it is a family member’s account, they need to cancel it; you can’t cancel it for them.
- Check your other devices. If you signed up on another phone or tablet, look in that device’s store too.
- Find who bills you. With no Apple receipt, Apple says you may have bought the subscription from another company. Your bank or card statement shows who is charging you; cancel with that company directly, usually in your account on its website.
If you’re still being charged
Keep a note of when and how you cancelled. If a company won’t let you cancel or keeps charging you, the FTC suggests calling your credit card company and asking it to stop the payments, and disputing any charge you didn’t authorize.
Cancelling a free trial
Apple says to cancel a trial you don’t want to renew at least 24 hours before it ends. See how to avoid being charged after a free trial.
Where Renewal Day helps
Renewal Day keeps one list of what renews and when, entered by you, with no bank linking and no account. It reminds you before charges, and for popular services its cancel help links to each provider’s cancel page, showing the date the link was last checked, alongside App Store and Google Play subscription shortcuts. If you are deciding what to cut, “Still worth it?” walks through your renewals, most expensive first.
Renewal Day can’t cancel anything for you. It opens the provider’s page or your store’s subscription settings, and you confirm the cancellation there.
Renewal Day is coming soon to iPhone and Android.
Sources
- Apple Support: Cancel a subscription from Apple
- Google Play Help: Cancel, pause, or change a subscription on Google Play
- Federal Trade Commission: Getting In and Out of Free Trials, Auto-Renewals, and Negative Option Subscriptions
Steps follow Apple’s and Google’s published help pages as of October 2026; menus can change, so their pages, linked above, are the current reference. Renewal Day is an independent app from intellidip and is not affiliated with Apple or Google. This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice.