How to Cancel YouTube TV
Step-by-step guide to canceling your YouTube TV subscription. Covers the web, iPhone, Android, carrier billing, and how to pause your membership instead.
YouTube said in February 2024 that YouTube TV had more than 8 million subscribers. At $82.99 a month for the main plan, it is not cheap. That is more than double the $35 a month it cost at launch in 2017.
Canceling happens in your YouTube TV Membership settings, whether Google bills you or your mobile carrier or internet provider does. What your billing changes is whether you can pause and who handles a refund.
There are no cancellation fees and 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, it helps to know who bills you. The cancel button is in the same place either way, but your billing decides whether you can pause and who handles a refund. Either Google bills you directly, or your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you and YouTube TV shows up on that bill. Google's page on provider billing sends both groups to the same cancel steps. The warning in step 3 covers what is different when your provider bills you. Your plan lives at tv.youtube.com under your profile photo, then Settings, then Membership, and that is where you cancel, no matter who bills you. The tip below is the fastest way to find out who that is.
Good to know: Check your phone or internet bill first. Google says YouTube TV billed through a provider shows up as an expense on that bill. If it is not there, Google bills you directly on the payment method you gave YouTube TV.
Cancel on the YouTube TV website
This 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. The Manage screen offers a pause as well as a cancel, so check that you picked the cancel option before you confirm. 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. Then tap Cancel membership and confirm. Google's support page has the latest screenshots if the menu layout has changed since this guide was written.
Cancel from an iPhone or iPad
Google's iPhone and iPad instructions start in a web browser rather than the app. Open Safari or another mobile browser, go to tv.youtube.com, and tap your profile photo. Go to Settings, then Membership. Tap Manage, then Cancel membership, and confirm. Do not look for an active YouTube TV plan under Subscriptions in your iPhone's Settings. YouTube TV stopped accepting Apple in-app payments on March 13, 2020, and the subscriptions Apple was billing were canceled automatically after one final month. If you are being charged for YouTube TV today, that charge is not coming through Apple, so the browser steps above are the ones that apply.
Heads up: If your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you for YouTube TV, Google still points you to these same cancel steps. Three things work differently. You cannot pause a provider-billed membership, refunds follow your provider's policy rather than YouTube's, and if you cancel and sign up again later, Google bills you directly from then on.
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, unless your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you. 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 your normal monthly price, and that date becomes your new billing date. Recordings you already had are kept through the pause, but they still expire 9 months after they aired.
Heads up: When your pause ends, YouTube TV charges you automatically. Google's help page describes that charge and does not mention any reminder before it. 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, recordings expire 9 months after they aired, 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. Google says it saves your library preferences in case you sign up again.
The whole process takes about two minutes once you know where to click. The harder part is deciding whether to cancel or pause. If price is the main issue, YouTube TV launched genre-based plans in February 2026. The cheapest at launch was the Entertainment Plan at $54.99 a month, or $44.99 for new users, against $82.99 for the main plan. Check your Membership page to see if a smaller plan fits what you actually watch. Google says a new plan starts right away when you switch. You may have read that a federal Click-to-Cancel rule requires services to make canceling as easy as signing up. That rule was struck down before its main requirements took effect. A federal appeals court vacated it in July 2025, and in March 2026 the FTC asked for public comment on writing a new one, so where this lands is still open as of September 2026. The FTC can still act against deceptive subscription practices under older law, including the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act. If a service makes canceling unreasonably hard, that is worth reporting to the FTC.
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. Watch anything important before then.
No. YouTube TV's refund policy says it does not give refunds or credits for partial billing periods, so you keep access until the end of the cycle you already paid for. The exception it names is a membership feature that is defective or does not perform as stated, which you can report through that page. If your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you, YouTube cannot grant the refund and your provider's policy applies.
Yes. You can resubscribe at any time by going to tv.youtube.com and restarting your membership. Google saves your library preferences. If your phone or internet provider used to bill you, a new sign-up is billed by Google instead.
Check where you are looking first. On an iPhone or iPad, Google's instructions begin in a web browser at tv.youtube.com rather than in the app. The option sits under Settings, then Membership, then Manage, and you need to be signed in with the Google account that holds the subscription. That same page applies if your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you.
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