{
  "slug": "youtube-premium",
  "name": "YouTube Premium",
  "domain": "youtube.com",
  "category": "streaming",
  "categoryName": "Streaming",
  "description": "YouTube paid memberships for fewer or no ads, with plan-dependent background play, downloads and YouTube Music Premium.",
  "directAnswer": "Cancel YouTube Premium from youtube.com/paid_memberships: choose Manage membership, then Deactivate, Continue to cancel and confirm with Yes, cancel. It takes about 2 minutes and benefits normally stay active through the current billing cycle. There is normally no refund for unused time, and partly used annual or other prepaid plans are not refundable.",
  "price": "Shown at checkout",
  "priceMonthlyUsd": null,
  "planName": "Individual monthly",
  "subscriptionPlans": [
    {
      "id": "individual-monthly",
      "name": "Individual monthly",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "The current US price is shown in the signed-in membership or checkout flow",
      "sourceUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16475192"
    },
    {
      "id": "premium-lite",
      "name": "Premium Lite",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "The current US price is shown at youtube.com/premiumlite for the signed-in account",
      "sourceUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883?hl=en"
    },
    {
      "id": "family",
      "name": "Family",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "The current US price is shown in the signed-in membership or checkout flow",
      "sourceUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16475192"
    },
    {
      "id": "student",
      "name": "Student",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "The current US price is shown in the signed-in membership or checkout flow and requires annual eligibility verification",
      "sourceUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16475192"
    },
    {
      "id": "individual-annual-prepaid",
      "name": "Individual annual prepaid",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "Prepaid and non-renewing; the current US price is shown in the eligible signed-in checkout flow",
      "sourceUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11417260"
    }
  ],
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "difficultyScore": 1.6,
  "billingMethods": [
    "web",
    "ios",
    "android",
    "google"
  ],
  "accountTypes": [
    "personal"
  ],
  "cancellationUrl": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308278?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en",
  "cancellationTime": "~2 minutes",
  "cancellationTimeSeconds": 120,
  "steps": {
    "web": [
      {
        "title": "Open paid memberships",
        "body": "Go to youtube.com/paid_memberships and choose Manage membership for YouTube Premium."
      },
      {
        "title": "Deactivate",
        "body": "Choose Deactivate, then Continue to cancel."
      },
      {
        "title": "Confirm",
        "body": "Select a reason, choose Next and then Yes, cancel."
      }
    ],
    "ios": [
      {
        "title": "Check who bills the membership",
        "body": "If Apple bills it, open Settings, tap your name, choose Subscriptions and select YouTube Premium."
      },
      {
        "title": "Cancel",
        "body": "Tap Cancel Subscription and confirm."
      }
    ],
    "android": [
      {
        "title": "Open Google Play subscriptions",
        "body": "If Google Play bills it, open subscriptions in Google Play and select YouTube Premium."
      },
      {
        "title": "Cancel",
        "body": "Tap Cancel subscription and follow the instructions. Otherwise use YouTube Paid memberships and the Deactivate flow."
      }
    ],
    "team": []
  },
  "platformNotes": {},
  "refundInfo": "Cancellation stops auto-renewal and normally leaves benefits active through the billing cycle without a refund for unused time. A refund may be available when paid features do not work. Google Play and Apple-billed purchases use their respective refund routes. Partly used annual or other prepaid plans are not refundable.",
  "pauseInfo": "Eligible monthly memberships can be paused for one to six months after the current billing cycle. Benefits become unavailable while paused, but downloads are retained until resumption. Annual, Apple-billed and Google Play-billed memberships cannot be paused.",
  "downgradeInfo": "The cancellation guide documents switching to an annual or family plan, and Premium Lite can be upgraded to Premium. No universal direct downgrade to Premium Lite is documented. Available choices depend on the current plan and billing provider.",
  "dataRetentionInfo": "Cancelling YouTube Premium does not delete the Google Account or its YouTube data. Deleting the Google Account is separate and removes account data and access to subscriptions and purchased YouTube or Google Play content.",
  "factRows": [
    {
      "k": "Cancellation fee",
      "v": "None"
    },
    {
      "k": "Refund window",
      "v": "Only for service failures or store eligibility"
    },
    {
      "k": "Effective",
      "v": "End of billing period"
    },
    {
      "k": "Free plan after",
      "v": "Yes, free YouTube"
    }
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "How do I cancel YouTube Premium?",
      "answer": "Open youtube.com/paid_memberships, choose Manage membership, Deactivate, Continue to cancel and confirm Yes, cancel."
    },
    {
      "question": "When does YouTube Premium cancellation take effect?",
      "answer": "Benefits normally continue through the current billing period and auto-renewal stops."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can YouTube Premium be paused?",
      "answer": "Eligible monthly memberships can pause for one to six months. Annual, Apple-billed and Google Play-billed memberships cannot."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is the annual plan refundable?",
      "answer": "A partly used annual or other prepaid plan is not refundable."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does cancellation delete my YouTube data?",
      "answer": "No. Google Account deletion is a separate action with much broader data loss."
    }
  ],
  "officialSources": [
    {
      "title": "Join YouTube Premium",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16475192",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Get YouTube Premium Lite",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883?hl=en",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cancel YouTube Premium",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308278?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pause YouTube Premium",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11950175?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "YouTube Premium refunds",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12014038?hl=en",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "YouTube Premium annual plan",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11417260",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cancel an Apple subscription",
      "url": "https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cancel a Google Play subscription",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=En",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Delete a Google Account",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046?hl=en",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    }
  ],
  "verified": true,
  "manuallyVerifiedAt": "2026-08-08",
  "nextReviewAt": "2026-10-07",
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    "json": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/youtube-premium.json",
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}