How to cancel Spotify Premium
If Spotify bills you, cancel under Manage your plan, then Cancel subscription. If that option isn't there, Apple, Google Play or a partner company is billing you and only they can stop it. Either way Premium runs to your next billing date, then the account drops to free — your playlists and saved music stay.
The only question that matters: who charges you?
Spotify Premium is sold through four different tills, and the cancel button only exists in the one that took your money. That is the entire reason this is confusing, and it's why "I cancelled and I'm still being charged" is one of the most-repeated questions in Spotify's own community.
Open Manage your plan in your Spotify account. If you can see a Cancel subscription option, Spotify bills you directly and you're two clicks from done. If you can't, Spotify's guidance is that the subscription is "associated with a partner company (ex. your mobile or internet provider)" — and the Payment section holds the link to reach them.
| Who bills you | Where you cancel |
|---|---|
| Spotify, directly | Spotify account → Manage your plan |
| Google Play | Spotify Android app → Settings and privacy → Account |
| Apple | iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions |
| A mobile, broadband or TV partner | The partner, via the link under Payment |
Cancel when Spotify bills you
- Go to Manage your plan in your Spotify account.
- Select Cancel subscription.
- Follow the flow to the confirmation — don't stop halfway.
Premium then runs "until your next billing date, then your account switches to free." Nothing is charged again in the meantime.
Cancel when Google Play bills you
If you subscribed inside the Android app, Google takes the payment — but Spotify still hosts the cancel button. Spotify's instructions for Google Play Billing customers:
- Tap your profile picture at the top of the Spotify app.
- Tap Settings and privacy, then Account.
- Scroll to Spotify Free and select Cancel Premium.
- Continue through to the confirmation message.
Anything about the money itself — a refund, the wrong card, a duplicate charge — is Google's department, not Spotify's. And uninstalling the app does nothing: Google states plainly that "when you uninstall the app, your subscription won't cancel."
Cancel when Apple bills you
If Premium started on an iPhone, Apple is the merchant and Spotify's website cannot stop the charge. Spotify's own answer is to use Apple's steps:
- Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap your name, then tap Subscriptions.
- Tap Spotify, then tap Cancel Subscription. Scroll down if you don't see it.
No Cancel button, or an expiry date shown in red? It's already cancelled — there's nothing else to do.
Cancel when a phone company or bundle bills you
Premium is packaged with mobile plans, broadband deals and hardware promotions in a lot of markets, and those are cancelled with the partner. In your Spotify account, open Manage your plan and check Payment; the partner's contact link sits there. Expect the bundle's notice period to apply rather than Spotify's — telecoms contracts rarely stop on the same day you ask.
Trials end on a different rule. Cancelling a paid month keeps Premium until your next billing date. Cancelling "during a zero-priced free trial period" switches the account to free immediately. So if you're on a trial and you've decided against it, you can still use the days you have left — cancel near the end of the trial, not the minute you make up your mind. Just don't leave it to the last hour.
Cancelling Premium doesn't delete anything
This is the part that stops people cancelling, and it shouldn't. Premium ending is a downgrade, not a deletion: "You keep your playlists and saved music when your account is free. You can also still log in and play with ads." Your library, your follows and your listening history stay exactly as they are. Deleting the account is a separate, deliberate action you have to go looking for.
Duo and Family: owner or member?
Two people can press cancel on the same Family plan and get completely different results.
- If you're the plan manager — the one paying — cancelling ends the plan for everyone. Spotify notes that "if you cancel a family plan, any managed accounts will move to our free, ad-supported plan." Everyone on it loses Premium on the same date you do, so tell them first.
- If you're a member, the cancel steps "remove your account from the plan, but won't cancel it." The plan carries on billing the manager. If you're a member and you want the charge to stop, the manager has to act — all you can do is take yourself off it.
Members also can't change the payment method; that's the manager's job too. If you're splitting a Duo or Family plan with friends, write down who the manager is while you still remember. It saves an awkward group chat eleven months from now.
Still charged after you cancelled?
Nine times out of ten it's a channel mismatch — cancelled inside Spotify while Apple was the biller, or removed yourself from a Family plan and assumed that ended it. Look at the charge itself: an "APPLE.COM/BILL" line or a Google entry on your statement means the app store owns that subscription, and only the app store can close it. Then cancel in the right place, and keep the confirmation email.
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