To cancel Spotify Premium, go to spotify.com/account, open your plan details, and see who bills you. If Spotify charges your card directly, cancel on the website under “Manage your plan.” If Apple, Google Play, or a mobile carrier handles the billing, you have to cancel through them instead — Spotify can’t do it for you.1Spotify. How to Cancel Premium Plans
Find Out Who Actually Bills You
This is the step most people skip, and it’s why some users think they canceled but keep getting charged. Log in at spotify.com/account and look at your plan details. If you see a credit card or PayPal on file, Spotify is billing you and you can cancel on the site. If you see Apple, Google, or a wireless carrier listed, that company owns the subscription and you have to cancel through its system.1Spotify. How to Cancel Premium Plans
Cancel Directly on Spotify
If Spotify is your biller:
- Go to spotify.com/account and select “Manage your plan.”
- Select “Cancel subscription.”
- Follow the prompts past the retention screens — Spotify may offer a discount — until you reach the final confirmation.
Your account page will then show the date your Premium access ends. You keep every Premium feature until that billing cycle runs out, so there’s no reason to time the cancellation for the last day.1Spotify. How to Cancel Premium Plans Spotify also emails a confirmation. Save it in case a charge shows up later.
One catch: you can’t cancel inside the Spotify mobile app. It will send you to the website. That applies to both iPhone and Android users who are billed by Spotify directly.
Cancel Through Apple
If you signed up through the App Store, or Apple is listed on your Spotify account page as the billing partner, cancel from your Apple device. On an iPhone or iPad:
- Open Settings and tap your name at the top.
- Tap “Subscriptions.”
- Tap the Spotify entry.
- Tap “Cancel Subscription.”
On a Mac, open the App Store, click your name, go to Account Settings, scroll to Subscriptions, click Manage, and cancel from there.2Apple Support. If You Want to Cancel a Subscription From Apple If there’s no Cancel button and you see an expiration message in red instead, Apple has already processed the cancellation.
Cancel Through Google Play
If you subscribed through the Google Play Store, open your device’s Settings app, tap Google, then your name, then “Manage your Google Account.” Go to “Payments & subscriptions” and select “Manage subscriptions.” Find Spotify and cancel.3Google Play Help. Cancel, Pause, or Change a Subscription on Google Play
You can also get there from the Play Store app by tapping your profile icon and selecting “Payments & subscriptions.”
Cancel Through a Mobile Carrier or Other Partner
Some wireless carriers bundle Spotify Premium into phone plans or add it to your monthly bill. If your Spotify account page shows a carrier or other partner, you’ll need to contact that company. Spotify lists its contact information on your account page under your plan details.1Spotify. How to Cancel Premium Plans You’ll usually log into the carrier’s account portal or call customer service. Watch your next phone bill to confirm the charge is actually gone.
What Happens After You Cancel
Premium stays active until the end of your current billing cycle. When that cycle ends, your account drops to Spotify Free: ads between songs, no offline downloads, and shuffle-only playback on phones.4Spotify. Your Billing Date
You keep your library. Playlists, saved songs, and listening history all carry over to the free tier, and they’ll be waiting if you ever resubscribe.1Spotify. How to Cancel Premium Plans
If You’re on a Free Trial
Spotify runs free trials often — currently three months for new Premium Individual subscribers. Cancel during the trial and your account reverts to the free tier when the trial ends, not immediately. You keep every day of the trial you signed up for.5Spotify. Paid Subscription Terms The safest play is to cancel the moment you decide you don’t want to keep paying. You lose nothing by canceling early, and you eliminate the forgot-to-cancel charge that’s the hardest to get back.
Refunds for Charges You’ve Already Been Hit With
Spotify doesn’t prorate. When you cancel, you keep Premium until the period ends, but you don’t get money back for unused days. For charges billed directly by Spotify that look like an error — say, a charge after you already canceled — contact Spotify support through your account page and open a billing case.6Spotify. Refund Policy
If Apple handles your billing, Spotify can’t refund anything. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, select “Request a refund,” choose your reason, and submit. Apple typically responds within 24 to 48 hours.7Apple Support. Request a Refund for Apps or Content That You Bought From Apple Google Play has a similar refund request process in its help center for subscriptions billed through Google.
Canceling Is Not the Same as Deleting Your Account
Worth knowing before you click anything: canceling Premium and closing your account are different, and only one is reversible. Canceling drops you to the free tier. Your account, playlists, followers, and listening history all stay.
Closing your account permanently deletes your data from Spotify’s services. You lose access to any purchased audiobooks and live event tickets tied to the account. After you request closure, Spotify gives you seven days to change your mind using a reactivation link in your email. After that, the deletion runs and can’t be reversed.8Spotify. Closing Your Account and Deleting Your Data If all you want is to stop paying, cancel the subscription. Don’t close the account.
If Spotify Makes Cancellation Difficult
The FTC’s Click-to-Cancel rule, codified at 16 CFR Part 425, requires any business selling a recurring subscription to make canceling at least as simple as signing up. If you subscribed online, the company must let you cancel online.9Legal Information Institute. 16 CFR Part 425 – Negative Option Rule Burying the cancel button, forcing you to call when you signed up with a click, or routing you through endless retention screens all likely violate the rule.
If you run into those obstacles, you can file a complaint with the FTC at ftc.gov/complaint. Many states also have their own automatic renewal laws with similar or stricter requirements.