How to cancel Google Play subscriptions.

For a subscription billed through Google Play. A Chromebook with the Google Play Store installed follows the same Android steps.

1. Open the Google Play app and check you are signed in to the Google Account that has the subscription.
2. Tap your profile icon at the top right, then Payments & subscriptions, and open Subscriptions.
3. Select the subscription you want to cancel.
4. Tap Cancel subscription and follow the instructions.

Google states that uninstalling the app does not cancel the subscription. Cancel it here even if the app is already gone.

Google's web route. It needs no Android device, so it still works when the phone is lost, reset or replaced.

1. Go to play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions and sign in with the Google Account that has the subscription.
2. Next to the subscription you want to cancel, click Manage.
3. Click Cancel subscription.
4. In the confirmation pop-up, select a reason, then click Continue.

A Google Play subscription is billed to your Google Account, not to the device in your hand. An iPhone's Settings will not list it, because Apple's subscription list covers what Apple bills. Google documents two places to cancel: the Play app on Android and play.google.com on a computer.

1. Open play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions in a web browser, ideally on a computer, since that is the version Google documents.
2. Sign in with the Google Account that pays for the subscription, then follow the computer steps: Manage, Cancel subscription, a reason, Continue.
3. If the receipt came from Apple rather than Google, the subscription was bought through the App Store and is cancelled in your Apple subscriptions instead.

Google has two places to look. Google Play's Subscriptions page shows what you pay for through Play. Your Google payments profile also lists recurring charges for Google products and services under Subscriptions & services.

1. For Play subscriptions, open play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions, or Payments & subscriptions in the Google Play app.
2. For other Google products and services, sign in to your payments profile at payments.google.com and open Subscriptions & services. Select Manage next to a product to see its details.
3. To cancel from that list, select Manage, then Cancel subscription. Google says that if the option is missing, cancel in the Google product itself, and if neither offers it, cancel with the subscription provider.
4. Cancelled subscriptions are under Canceled at the top of the same page.
5. Each list only covers the Google Account you are signed in to, so repeat this for every account you use.

Only some apps offer pausing. When they do, the pause starts at the end of the current billing period, and the available lengths range from one week to three months depending on the app and subscription.

1. Go to your subscriptions in Google Play and select the subscription you want to pause.
2. Tap Manage, then Pause payments.
3. Set the time period to pause payments, then tap Confirm.
4. To restart before the pause ends, select the subscription and tap Resume.

If Pause payments is not offered, the app does not support pausing, and cancelling is the way to stop the next charge.

A Google One plan is billed by Google, or by Apple if you signed up through the App Store on an iPhone or iPad. For a plan Google bills, Google's own route is the Google One app.

1. On Android, open the Google One app, tap Menu, then Settings, then Cancel membership, and tap Cancel membership again to confirm.
2. Storage and benefits stay until the end of the billing cycle. After that, each person keeps the default storage of up to 15 GB at no charge.
3. If someone else manages your Google family group, ask the family group manager to cancel the plan, or leave the family group.
4. Bought on an iPhone or iPad? Cancel it in your Apple subscriptions instead.

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium can be billed by YouTube directly, by Google Play, or by Apple if you joined from the YouTube iOS app. Each is cancelled where it is billed.

1. Billed by YouTube: go to youtube.com/paid_memberships, click Manage membership, then Deactivate, then Continue to cancel. Choose a reason, click next, then click Yes, cancel.
2. Billed by Google Play: cancel it in Google Play subscriptions with the steps above.
3. Billed by Apple: cancel it in your Apple subscriptions.
4. Benefits continue until the end of the billing period.

Many Android subscriptions are paid on the company's own website, through a carrier or with PayPal, and never appear in Google Play. Those are cancelled with whoever bills you, which the Android guide covers.

1. Check Google Play's order history: on play.google.com, click your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions, then Budget & order history.
2. If the charge is not there on any of your Google Accounts, Google Play did not bill it.
3. Cancel with the company named on the receipt or your bank statement, in its app, on its website or in its account settings.