How to Cancel YouTube Premium

Go to youtube.com and sign in. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner and select "Purchases and memberships". Click "Manage membership" next to YouTube Premium. On the next screen, click "Deactivate" or "Cancel membership". Google will ask you to confirm and may offer a discounted rate or a pause as an alternative. Decline if you want to fully cancel. Your Premium benefits continue until the end of the current billing period. If you're on a family plan as the manager, cancelling removes Premium from all family members at the same time.

If you subscribed through the YouTube iOS app, the charge goes through Apple and you cannot cancel on the YouTube website — it won't give you the option. Open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then "Subscriptions". Find "YouTube Premium" in the list and tap it, then tap "Cancel Subscription" and confirm. Your access continues until the billing date. If you subscribed directly through Google on a browser, the App Store won't show the subscription — use the web method above.

If you subscribed through the Google Play Store, open the Play Store app and tap your profile icon. Go to "Payments & subscriptions" → "Subscriptions". Find YouTube Premium and tap "Cancel subscription". If you subscribed through the YouTube website or Google account directly rather than through Play, cancel via the web method above. Note that a Google One membership sometimes bundles YouTube Premium — if that's the case, cancelling Google One removes it.

After cancellation, ads return on all YouTube videos immediately once your billing period ends. Background play — which lets you listen with the screen off — is disabled on mobile. Your YouTube Music access also ends, and you revert to the free ad-supported tier there. Downloaded videos for offline viewing are deleted. Your watch history, playlists, and subscribed channels are unaffected. If you mainly used Premium for background play or YouTube Music, consider whether a standalone YouTube Music subscription ($10.99/month) covers what you actually need.