How to Cancel Spotify Premium
Cancel Spotify Premium through whoever bills you (Spotify, Google Play, or your phone or internet provider) and keep your playlists and saved music when your account switches to Free.
You will end up with Spotify Premium canceled through whoever bills you (Spotify, Google Play, or your phone or internet provider) and your account on Spotify Free with your playlists and saved music still there.
In its earnings report, Spotify reported 300 million Premium subscribers in the second quarter of 2026. The US Individual plan now costs $12.99 a month, the price on Spotify's Premium plans page. Spotify's own cancel steps start on your account page, and the right path depends on who bills you, so step 1 starts there. We checked these steps against Spotify's, Google's, and Apple's help pages in September 2026.
Figure out who bills you
Find out who charges you for Spotify Premium before you start. The cancellation process is different depending on whether you subscribed directly through Spotify, through Google Play, or through your phone or internet provider. The easiest way to check is to look at your billing history. If your bank statement shows charges from "Spotify," you subscribed directly and will cancel through Spotify's website. If it shows "Google," you went through Google Play. If Spotify appears on your phone or internet bill instead, your provider bills you and you cancel through them. You can also check on Spotify's account page. Log in at account.spotify.com, scroll to the Your plan section, and look at your payment method. If a partner such as your mobile or internet provider bills you, Spotify shows its contact link there.
Heads up: Spotify's cancel instructions start on your account page at account.spotify.com, so open it in a web browser instead of looking for a cancel option in the app. If Google Play bills you, cancel there (step 4). If your phone or internet provider bills you, cancel with them through the contact link on that account page.
Cancel through Spotify's website if you subscribed directly
This method works if you signed up on spotify.com or through the desktop app and Spotify bills you directly. Open a web browser on your phone or computer and go to account.spotify.com. Log in with your Spotify credentials. Scroll down to the Your plan section and click Manage your plan. If you are still in a free trial, know before you click that Spotify switches a canceled zero-priced trial to Free immediately, and that the trial cannot be reactivated. Click Cancel subscription. If the flow shows you an offer or a cheaper plan before the final screen, decline it to keep going. Select a reason for canceling when asked, then confirm your cancellation on the final screen.
Good to know: If price is your reason for leaving, read any discount the cancel flow shows you before you confirm, and compare it with switching to a cheaper plan such as Duo, or Student if you qualify.
If you use an iPhone, cancel on the website
Spotify stopped selling Premium through the App Store in 2016, and in July 2023 it moved the last App Store subscribers to Free at the end of their billing cycle. If you use an iPhone today, Spotify bills you directly, so cancel on the website as in step 2. If an old Apple charge for Spotify still shows up, open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, and cancel it there. Apple's subscription management page has the full walkthrough.
Cancel through Google Play if you subscribed on Android
If you subscribed through the Google Play Store, you need to cancel there. Google says uninstalling an app does not cancel its subscription, so deleting Spotify leaves the charge running. Open the Google Play Store app on your Android phone. Tap your profile icon in the top right corner. Tap Payments and subscriptions, then tap Subscriptions. Find Spotify and tap it. Tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts to confirm. If you do not have your phone handy, you can also cancel from a browser. Go to play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions, sign in with the same Google account, and cancel from there.
Confirm the cancellation on your account page
Go back to account.spotify.com to check that the cancellation went through. Under the Your plan section, it should now show when your Premium access ends. You will keep all Premium features until that date. After that, your account automatically switches to Spotify Free. Spotify says you keep your playlists and saved music on Free, and you can still log in and play with ads.
Heads up: If you are a member of a Family or Duo plan rather than its manager, these steps only remove you from the plan. Spotify says the plan itself keeps running until the plan manager cancels it.
Once your billing cycle ends, your account switches to Spotify Free, with ads between songs and no offline downloads. Free is less restrictive on a phone than it used to be, though. Spotify's September 2025 update lets free listeners pick and play any song or search for a track and play it straight away. If a Spotify charge shows up after your Premium end date, work through FAQ 1 below. If you manage a Family or Duo plan, tell the other members before you cancel, as Spotify asks, because they lose Premium from the next payment date too. If losing offline downloads is the part that stings, our guide on how to convert YouTube to MP3 legally covers the legal ways to keep audio for offline listening.
Questions we get asked about this
Answers from experience, not a textbook.
Spotify says an account on Free has no Premium plan to cancel, and that if you are being charged, you most likely have Premium on a different Spotify account. Log out and log back in with your other email address or sign-in method, then cancel from that account's page. Also check your Google Play subscriptions and your phone or internet bill, as step 1 describes. If you cannot get into the paying account, Spotify's cancel page links a form you can fill in and send to Spotify instead.
No. Spotify's refund policy is that you can cancel any time and keep what you paid for, so your account stays on Premium until the end of the billing period and then switches to Free. Spotify also says it cannot refund Premium payments made through a partner, so if Google Play or your phone or internet provider bills you, ask them.
Only the plan manager can cancel a Family or Duo plan. If the manager cancels, all members lose their Premium benefits at the end of the billing cycle. Individual members cannot cancel the plan, but they can leave it on their own, which only removes them without affecting the rest of the group.
Canceling Premium stops your subscription payments and downgrades your account to Spotify Free. Your account, playlists, followers, and listening history all stay intact. Closing your Spotify account is a different, bigger step. Spotify emails you a link that can reactivate the account within 7 days. After that, Spotify says, the account cannot be reactivated and the process to delete your data begins. You also lose any audiobooks you bought and any tickets for future live events. Cancel Premium first so the billing stops, then close the account separately if that is what you want.
Yes. Resubscribe at any time from account.spotify.com by choosing a plan. Canceling Premium does not close your account, and Spotify says you keep your playlists and saved music while you are on Free.
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