How to Cancel Spotify Premium Subscription on iPhone and Android (2026)

If you’ve tried to cancel Spotify Premium from inside the iPhone app and hit a wall, you’re not imagining things — Spotify’s iOS app genuinely does not have a cancel button. That’s an Apple App Store rule, not a Spotify decision. Android works a little differently, and if you pay Spotify directly through spotify.com, it’s different again. Below is exactly what to tap on each platform, what happens to your account the moment you cancel, and where people usually get tripped up (mostly: still getting charged because they cancelled in the wrong place).

Last verified: July 18, 2026, against Spotify’s official support pages, Apple’s subscription support page, and Google Play’s subscription help center. Spotify occasionally reshuffles its account page menus, so if a label looks slightly different on your screen, the underlying steps below still apply.

First, figure out how you’re actually being billed

This is the step most people skip, and it’s the reason cancellations “don’t work.” Spotify Premium can be billed three different ways, and you have to cancel through whichever one is actually charging you:

• You signed up and pay directly on spotify.com — cancel from your Spotify account page.
• You subscribed through the Spotify iOS app, or your card on file is billed by Apple — cancel through your iPhone’s Settings or the App Store, not inside Spotify.
• You subscribed through the Spotify Android app via Google Play — cancel through the Google Play Store, not inside Spotify.
• Your plan came bundled with a carrier or internet provider (this shows up on your account page as a partner-associated plan) — you have to cancel through that provider.

Not sure which one applies to you? Open the Spotify app, go to your profile and tap “Manage your plan” (or check your account page on the web). If it shows a “Cancel subscription” option there, you’re billed directly by Spotify and can cancel on the spot. If it doesn’t, you’re being billed by Apple, Google, or a partner, and you’ll need one of the methods below.

How to cancel Spotify Premium on iPhone

If you started your Premium subscription through Apple’s App Store (this is the default for most people who sign up from inside the iOS app), Spotify has no control over the billing and can’t cancel it for you — you have to go through Apple. Per Apple’s own support documentation, here’s the path:

Option 1: Cancel from the Settings app

• Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
• Tap your name at the top of the screen.
• Tap Subscriptions.
• Tap Spotify from the list.
• Tap Cancel Subscription (scroll down if you don’t see it right away).
• Confirm when prompted.

If you don’t see a “Cancel Subscription” button and instead see red text noting when access ends, the subscription is already cancelled — you’re just riding out the paid period.

Option 2: Cancel from the App Store app

• Open the App Store app.
• Tap your profile icon in the top-right corner.
• Tap Subscriptions.
• Select Spotify and tap Cancel Subscription.

You can also manage it from a browser at account.apple.com without touching your phone at all — useful if the Settings app is misbehaving. Either way, cancelling through Apple stops future billing but doesn’t touch your Spotify account settings directly; Spotify is just notified that the subscription won’t renew.

How to cancel Spotify Premium on Android

Same logic applies here: if you subscribed through the Play Store, Google is the one billing you, and cancelling has to happen through Google Play, not the Spotify app itself.

Option 1: Cancel from the Google Play Store app

• Open the Google Play Store app.
• Tap your profile icon, then tap Payments & subscriptions.
• Tap Subscriptions.
• Select Spotify.
• Tap Cancel subscription and follow the on-screen prompts.

Option 2: Cancel from play.google.com on a browser

• Go to play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions in any browser, signed into the Google account tied to the subscription.
• Find Spotify in the list.
• Select Cancel subscription and confirm.

Google’s own help documentation is explicit on one point that trips people up: uninstalling the Spotify app does not cancel the subscription. You’ll keep getting billed until you actually cancel through Play Store subscriptions, app or no app.

How to cancel on desktop or the web (if Spotify bills you directly)

This is the method Spotify actually documents on its support site, and it applies if you signed up on spotify.com or the desktop app rather than through an app store:

• Log in to your account at spotify.com/account.
• Go to “Manage your plan.”
• Select “Cancel subscription.”
• Confirm the cancellation when Spotify asks you to.

You can also cancel by filling out Spotify’s cancellation form and submitting it through the support site if the account-page option isn’t showing up for you for some reason, though the account page method is faster for almost everyone.

Quick reference: which method to use

How you subscribed	Where to cancel
Signed up directly on spotify.com or the desktop app	Spotify account page → Manage your plan → Cancel subscription
Signed up in the iOS app / billed by Apple	iPhone Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions → Spotify → Cancel Subscription
Signed up in the Android app / billed by Google Play	Google Play Store → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Spotify → Cancel
Bundled with a carrier or internet provider	Contact that provider directly; check the Payment section of your Spotify account page for their details
You’re a member on someone else’s Family or Duo plan	You can leave the plan yourself, but only the plan manager can cancel the plan’s billing

What actually happens after you cancel

You keep Premium until the billing period ends

Cancelling doesn’t cut you off immediately. Per Spotify’s support page, “your Premium stays until your next billing date, then your account switches to free.” So if you’re a week into a monthly cycle when you cancel, you keep ad-free, on-demand, offline listening for the rest of that period — you just won’t be charged again. The one exception: if you cancel during a zero-cost free trial, your account drops to Free immediately, and Spotify notes those free trials can’t be reactivated once cancelled.

Your offline downloads stop working

Offline downloads are a Premium feature, not something that transfers to a free account. Once your account switches to Free at the end of the billing period, downloaded tracks and albums stop playing — the files are still technically on your device but Spotify’s DRM won’t let the Free tier play them back. Your playlists and saved music library aren’t deleted, though; they’re just waiting for you if you resubscribe, and Spotify explicitly confirms you keep access to your playlists and saved music after downgrading.

How to make sure you’re not charged again

• Confirm you cancelled in the right place (see the table above) — cancelling in Spotify’s app settings does nothing if Apple or Google is actually billing you.
• Look for a confirmation email or on-screen confirmation after you cancel; both Spotify and Apple send one.
• Recheck the subscription status a day or two later — on iPhone, Settings → Subscriptions should show your access end date in place of a renewal date; on Android, Play Store → Subscriptions should show “Cancelled.”
• If you cancelled and still see a charge, that’s usually a sign the cancellation didn’t fully process before the next billing date — contact Apple or Google support for a refund request on that specific platform, since Spotify can’t refund charges it never processed.

Cancelling a Family or Duo plan is different

Only the plan manager — the person whose payment method is on file — can cancel the plan’s billing entirely, using the same account-page or app-store steps above. If you’re a member on someone else’s plan and want out, you don’t have a “cancel” option; instead you remove yourself from the plan through your account page, which drops you to Free but doesn’t touch the manager’s billing or the rest of the group. If you’re the manager and want to shut the whole plan down, cancelling it removes Premium for every member on the next billing date, so it’s worth giving everyone a heads-up first.

Bottom line

The cancel button lives wherever the money actually comes out of your account — Spotify’s own account page if you pay Spotify directly, Apple’s Subscriptions settings if you pay through the App Store, and Google Play’s subscriptions page if you pay through Play Store. Get that part right and cancellation itself takes under a minute, and you’ll keep full Premium access through the rest of whatever you already paid for.

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