How to Cancel YouTube TV
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your YouTube TV subscription. Covers direct billing, Apple billing, carrier billing, and how to pause your membership instead.
YouTube TV has grown into the largest live TV streaming service in the country, with over 8 million subscribers. But at $82.99 a month, it is not cheap. The price has more than doubled since the service launched at $35 in 2017, and every increase pushes more people toward the cancel button.
The cancellation process depends on how you signed up. If you subscribed directly through YouTube TV, you cancel on their website. If you went through Apple, you cancel in your iPhone settings. And if your subscription came bundled with a carrier like Verizon or T-Mobile, you have to go through them.
The good news is that there are no cancellation fees, no contracts, and you keep access until the end of your billing cycle. Here is how to cancel on every platform.
Figure out who bills you
Before you start clicking around, you need to know how you signed up. The cancel button lives in a different place depending on who handles your billing. If you subscribed directly through YouTube TV (which most people do), you will cancel on their website. If you signed up through the Apple App Store on your iPhone or iPad, you need to cancel through Apple. And if YouTube TV came bundled with your phone or internet plan through a carrier like Verizon, T-Mobile, or Frontier, you have to cancel through that carrier's account portal. The quickest way to check is to open tv.youtube.com in a browser, click your profile photo, go to Settings, and click Membership. If you see a Manage button next to your plan, you subscribed directly and can cancel right there. If instead you see a message telling you to manage your subscription elsewhere, that tells you who actually bills you.
Good to know: Check your bank or credit card statement if you are not sure. Charges from "Google" or "YouTube" mean you subscribed directly. Charges from "Apple.com/bill" mean you went through the App Store. Charges from your carrier mean it is bundled.
Cancel on the YouTube TV website
This is the most common method and works on any computer or phone with a browser. Go to tv.youtube.com and sign in with the Google account that holds the subscription. Click your profile photo in the top right corner, then click Settings. Select the Membership tab on the left side. Click Manage next to your YouTube TV plan. Then click Cancel membership. YouTube TV will try to keep you. You will probably see a screen offering to pause your membership instead, or a discounted rate for a few months. If you want to fully cancel, click through these offers until you reach the final confirmation screen. Confirm the cancellation. You can also do this from the YouTube TV app on Android. Open the app, tap your profile photo, go to Settings, tap Membership, and tap Manage. The app may redirect you to a browser to finish, but the steps are the same. Google's support page has the latest screenshots if the menu layout has changed since this guide was written.
Cancel through Apple if you subscribed on iPhone
You cannot cancel an Apple-billed YouTube TV subscription from the YouTube TV website or app. Apple handles the billing, so Apple handles the cancellation. On your iPhone or iPad, open Settings and tap your name at the top of the screen. Tap Subscriptions. Find YouTube TV in the list and tap it, then tap Cancel Subscription and confirm. If you do not see YouTube TV in your subscriptions list, you did not subscribe through Apple. Go back to step 2 and cancel through the YouTube TV website instead. Apple's subscription management page covers the full process if you need help finding the option on your version of iOS.
Heads up: If you signed up through a carrier like Verizon, T-Mobile, or Frontier, neither YouTube TV nor Apple can cancel your subscription. You need to log into your carrier's account portal or call their support line to remove YouTube TV from your plan.
Consider pausing instead of canceling
If you are canceling because of the price during an off-season (no football, no basketball), pausing might be the better move. YouTube TV lets you pause your membership for anywhere from 4 weeks to 6 months. You are not charged during the pause, and your account picks up right where you left off when it resumes. To pause, follow the same path as canceling. Go to tv.youtube.com, click your profile photo, then Settings, then Membership, then Manage. Instead of clicking cancel, look for the Pause option and choose how long you want to pause. You keep access until the end of your current billing cycle, then the pause kicks in. No new recordings are made during the pause. When the pause ends, you are automatically charged at the regular monthly rate and your recordings and preferences are restored.
Heads up: When your pause ends, YouTube TV charges you automatically. There is no reminder before it happens. Set a calendar alert for the day before your pause expires so you can cancel for real if you have not decided to come back.
Check what happens after you cancel
After you confirm the cancellation, you keep full access to YouTube TV until the end of your current billing cycle. No charges hit your account for the next period. Your DVR recordings stick around for 21 days after cancellation. After that, they are deleted. Even with an active subscription, YouTube TV only stores recordings for 9 months, so do not count on them being there if you come back much later. If you canceled during a free trial, you still get access until the trial period ends. No charge at all. There are no cancellation fees. YouTube TV is month-to-month with no contracts. And if you change your mind, you can resubscribe at any time at tv.youtube.com. Your account preferences and settings are preserved even after cancellation. YouTube TV also tends to offer comeback deals, so you might see a discounted rate when you return.
The whole process takes about two minutes once you know where to click. The harder part is deciding whether to cancel, pause, or just ride out the retention discount YouTube TV throws at you on the way out. If price is the main issue, it is worth knowing that YouTube TV introduced cheaper genre-specific plans in 2026, starting at $55 a month. Check your Membership page to see if a smaller plan fits what you actually watch. The FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule requires subscription services to make canceling as simple as signing up. YouTube TV already does a decent job of this compared to some cable companies, but if you ever feel like a service is making cancellation intentionally difficult, that rule is worth knowing about.
Questions we get asked about this
Answers from experience, not a textbook.
No. You keep full access to YouTube TV until the end of your current billing cycle. After that date, your subscription ends and you can no longer watch live channels or access your DVR.
Your DVR recordings remain accessible for 21 days after your subscription ends. After 21 days, they are permanently deleted. There is no way to download or export recordings from YouTube TV, so watch anything important before your access expires.
YouTube TV does not issue refunds for partial billing periods by default. You keep access until the end of the cycle you already paid for. If you believe you were charged in error or want to request an exception, you can contact Google support, but refunds are not guaranteed.
Yes. You can resubscribe at any time by going to tv.youtube.com and restarting your membership. Your account preferences are preserved. YouTube TV often offers promotional rates to returning subscribers, so you might get a discount when you come back.
If you subscribed through the Apple App Store, the cancel option will not appear on the YouTube TV website or app. You need to cancel through your iPhone's Settings under Subscriptions. The same applies if you subscribed through a carrier like Verizon or T-Mobile. You have to cancel through that provider's account portal, not through YouTube TV.
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