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Cancel a directly billed Washington Post digital subscription from My Post: sign in on the website, open My Post from the profile menu, manage the subscription and choose Cancel subscription. It takes about 3 minutes and access continues through the current billing period. Cancellation stops the next renewal but no automatic refund is documented for the current paid period.
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Digital news subscription from The Washington Post. This guide covers every place the subscription can live - the website, the iPhone and iPad app, and Google Play - plus what happens to refunds, pausing and your data afterwards.
Use the Washington Post account only when the subscription was purchased directly.
Sign in on the Washington Post website and open My Post from the profile menu.
Select the option to manage the digital subscription and billing.
Choose Cancel subscription and follow the confirmation prompts until the cancellation is recorded.
Amazon-billed subscriptions must be canceled through Amazon rather than the Washington Post account.
Apple-billed subscriptions are managed by Apple.
If Apple billed the subscription, open Settings on the iPhone or iPad, tap your name, then tap Subscriptions.
Open The Washington Post subscription from the active subscriptions list.
Follow Apple's confirmation prompts. If there is no Cancel button or an expiration message appears, Apple says it is already canceled.
Google Play-billed subscriptions are managed in Google Play.
If Google Play billed the subscription, open Google Play with the purchasing Google account and go to Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.
Open The Washington Post subscription from the list.
Follow Google's on-screen instructions to confirm cancellation.
Tick a step to keep your place - nothing is stored. Tap a step to tick it off - nothing is stored.
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Canceling stops the next renewal but does not create a documented automatic refund for the current paid period. Access continues through the current billing period for a directly billed digital subscription.
After a directly billed digital subscription ends, the account remains and receives the limited number of articles available to non-subscribers. Switching between Core and Premium is separate from cancellation.
The Washington Post's digital cancellation instructions do not document a pause option.
Canceling a subscription does not delete the Washington Post account. The privacy policy provides separate privacy request rights and allows retention where needed for legal, security and business purposes.
Cancel in My Post when the publisher bills you directly. Apple, Google Play and Amazon purchases must be canceled through the original billing platform.
For a directly billed digital subscription, access continues through the current billing period and then the account returns to limited non-subscriber access.
The digital cancellation instructions do not promise an automatic refund for the current paid period.
The official digital cancellation instructions do not document a pause option.
No. The account and privacy requests are separate from subscription cancellation.
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