YouTube (Premium, Music Premium and YouTube TV): cancellation problem
Cancel Premium on the Paid memberships page and YouTube TV in Settings, Membership; benefits continue to the end of the billing period.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 17 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- cancellation confirmation
- Status field on the Paid memberships page
- any later charge
Steps
For Premium or Music Premium, sign in and cancel on the Paid memberships page.
For YouTube TV, cancel or pause at tv.youtube.com, Settings, Membership.
If you joined through the YouTube iOS app, cancel in your Apple account.
If you pay through Google Play, cancel in Google Play subscriptions.
If you got YouTube TV through a mobile carrier or internet provider, cancel with that provider.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Policy
After you cancel, you are not charged again unless you re-subscribe, and benefits continue "until the end of the billing period."
Source: support.google.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
After cancelling YouTube TV, "you'll still have access to YouTube TV until the end of your payment period." Immediate removal requires contacting support.
Source: support.google.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
At the end of a free trial "you will be automatically charged the price of the subscription." To avoid charges "you must cancel your subscription before the end of the trial period" (YouTube Paid Service Terms, section 3.2).
Source: youtube.com, verified 2026-10-12
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
- Cancel, refund and contact pages need sign-in to the Google account that pays for the membership.
- Memberships billed by Apple, Google Play, Pixel Pass, a mobile carrier or an internet provider must be cancelled and refunded through that party.
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