How to Cancel YouTube TV
Cancel or pause your YouTube TV membership on the web, Android, or iPhone, including when your carrier or internet provider bills you, and know what happens to your recordings and refund.
You will end up with your YouTube TV membership canceled, or paused if you plan to come back, knowing exactly when your access and your recordings end.
YouTube said in February 2024 that YouTube TV had more than 8 million subscribers. The main plan costs $82.99 a month, the price YouTube gave in its February 2026 plans announcement, more than double the $35 a month YouTube announced 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.
Google lets you cancel or pause at any time, and you keep access until the end of the billing period you already paid for. We checked these steps against Google's YouTube TV Help pages in September 2026.
Figure out who bills you
Find out who bills you before you start. 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 shows how 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. If the menus look different, Google's support page shows the current steps.
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.
Pause instead of canceling if you plan to return
If you are canceling because of the price during an off-season (no football, no basketball), pause instead. 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, use the slider to choose how many weeks to pause, then click Pause. You keep access until the end of your current billing cycle, then the pause kicks in. During the pause you cannot watch YouTube TV, and no new programs are recorded. A pause cannot be extended, but you can resume early at any time and pause again later. 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: Google's help page describes the automatic charge when a pause ends 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 the billing period you paid for, or until your free trial ends if you canceled during one, and you are not charged for the next period. When that period ends, you also lose any add-on networks. Your DVR recordings expire 21 days after the billing period ends, and the 9-month expiry from step 4 still applies, so watch anything you want to keep before your access runs out. FAQ 3 and FAQ 4 below cover refunds and rejoining.
If price is the main issue, YouTube TV launched genre-based plans in February 2026. The cheapest plan priced in that announcement 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 covers what you actually watch. If a subscription service makes canceling unreasonably hard, report it to the FTC. The FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule, which would have required canceling to be as easy as signing up, never took full 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.
Questions we get asked about this
Answers from experience, not a textbook.
Yes. Google's cancel page notes that you can remove add-on networks individually and keep the base membership. If you cancel the whole membership instead, you lose your add-ons when the billing period ends, and you cannot add networks again without a membership.
Google says recorded programs in your library expire 21 days after your billing period ends. Watch anything important before your billing cycle ends, and do not count on getting old recordings back if you rejoin, because Google warns you may not have access to them.
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 Google grants that refund, you lose access to YouTube TV immediately. 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, but its help page also warns that if you restart, you may not be eligible for promotional prices and may not have access to previous recordings. 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. The same steps apply if your mobile carrier or internet provider bills you.
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