LinkedIn: cancellation problem
Cancel Premium in the Admin Center (Purchases) at least one day before the billing date. Paid plans stay active to the end of the cycle. Apple App Store purchases are cancelled on the Apple device.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 29 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- cancellation confirmation
- billing date
- receipt from purchase history
Steps
On desktop: Me > Premium features > Manage subscription > Purchases > select the Active subscription > Cancel subscription > Confirm cancel.
In the United States, some subscriptions can be cancelled without signing in.
If you bought through the Apple App Store, cancel from the LinkedIn app on your Apple device or in Apple subscriptions.
If you bought through Google Play, cancel on LinkedIn or in Google Play.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Deadline
"Cancel at least one day before your billing date to avoid being charged for the next cycle."
Source: linkedin.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
A cancelled paid subscription stays active until the end of the current billing cycle. "If you cancel a Premium free trial, the trial will end immediately, and Premium access will stop right away."
Source: linkedin.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
User Agreement 2.3: "If you purchase a subscription, your payment method automatically will be charged at the start of each subscription period" and "To avoid future charges, cancel before the renewal date."
Source: linkedin.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
For users outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, "the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern," and claims are litigated in federal or state courts in Santa Clara County, California (User Agreement section 6, effective November 3, 2025).
Source: linkedin.com, verified 2026-10-13
Rules in force
- Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
3 citable points
- Policy
Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
The seller must provide "simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges" on the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial account.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Rules not in force (do not cite)
- FTC "Click-to-Cancel" amendments to the Negative Option Rule (2024) Vacated16 CFR part 425 (2024 amendments, published November 15, 2024)
Vacated in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025 (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, 142 F.4th 1060). The FTC removed the 2024 text effective February 12, 2026 and restored the pre-2024 prenotification rule. A new rulemaking is only at the ANPRM stage (March 13, 2026), with no proposed text as of 2026-10-12. What remains in force: ROSCA (rules/rosca-negative-option), Section 5 of the FTC Act, and state automatic renewal laws (for example rules/ca-automatic-renewal-law, rules/ny-automatic-renewal-law).
Not in force. Do not cite it as current law.
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Written complaint
Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card dispute for charges after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
Watch out
- The Admin Center (Purchases) and purchase history need sign-in; only some US and German subscriptions can be cancelled without signing in.
- LinkedIn offers no customer support phone number; support is by help center forms only.
- LinkedIn cannot give billing support or refunds for Apple App Store purchases.
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