Manage and cancel all your Amazon subscriptions

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Amazon Prime, and how to cancel

Subscribe & Save, and how to cancel

Prime Video, and how to cancel

Prime Video channels, and how to cancel

Kindle Unlimited, and how to cancel

Audible, and how to cancel

Software subscriptions, and how to cancel

How to cancel Prime membership

App: Tap the profile icon > Account > Prime Membership > Manage Membership, cancel and more > Manage membership > End membership then follow the cancellation screens until you confirm.

Browser: On the Amazon homepage, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Your Prime membership > Manage membership > Manage Membership > End membership then follow the cancellation screens until you confirm.

Once you cancel, you keep your Prime benefits until the end of the current billing cycle, after which all of the above-listed perks will cease (though you do get to keep any free PC games you claim forever).

NOTE: If you subscribed via Google Play or App Store, you'll be redirected to your subscription management page on those platforms).

Subscribe & Save

Amazon's Subscribe & Save feature lets you subscribe to certain items instead of just buying them as a one-off. This will usually net you a discount of 5-15% (though sometimes up to 25%) per delivery, depending on how many items you're buying. You set the frequency with which you want to receive the item, ranging from every two weeks to every six months.

You can save some money by subscribe-and-saving, then cancelling your subscription after only receiving one. Of course you don't need to cancel – you'll also save if you actually need to get the item in question on a regular basis.

How to cancel Subscribe & Save

Browser: Hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Your Subscribe & Save. Click the item you want to cancel your subscription for, then click Cancel subscription.

App: Tapthe menu icon at the bottom (three horizontal lines) > Subscribe & Save. Tap the item you wish to cancel > scroll to the bottom of the page > Cancel subscription.

Prime Video

Prime Video is Amazon's answer to Netflix, and includes hundreds of TV shows and movies, such as Clarkson's Farm, Fallout, and Conclave, among plenty of other high (and low) quality entertainment.

It is included in a Prime membership, but you can also subscribe to it separately. Prime Video sometimes offers a free 30-day trial, after which it rolls onto either the ad-supported version (which you also get with a full Amazon Prime membership) for £5.99/month, or the ad-free version for £8.99/month.

Not everything you see on Prime Video is included in the subscription, as within it you'll find content from 'channels' that you need a separate subscription for, as well as movies and TV to rent and buy for one-off prices. You can filter these out by selecting the 'Prime' logo when browsing.

How to cancel Prime Video subscription

Browser: Hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions > Cancel next to Prime Video. Then click through all the cancellation screens. After cancelling, you can continue watching Prime Video until the next billing cycle, even if you're only on a free trial.

Prime Video channels

The extra subscriptions within Prime Video are probably the the biggest 'subscribe and forget' banana peel on Amazon. Once you have a Prime Video subscription, you can subscribe to 'channels' such as Paramount+, Apple TV+, MUBI and BFI Player.

Many of these offer a free trial, and it's all too easy to just sign up to the trial so you can watch the movie or show you want, then forget you did it.

How to cancel Prime Video channels

Browser: Go to Prime Video > Subscriptions. Here you'll see your channel subscriptions under 'My subscriptions'. Click Manage > Cancel for the channel(s) you want cancel. You can keep watching until the end of the current billing cycle.

TV: Go to Settings > Channel subscriptions > Manage your subscriptions. Here you can see and cancel all your channel subscriptions.

How to cancel Kindle Unlimited subscription

Browser: Hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions > Kindle Unlimited settings. On the Kindle Unlimited Membership screen, click Cancel your membership > Cancel membership.

App: Tap your profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Kindle Unlimited Settings then cancel from there.

The £8.99 'Premium' plan gets you access to a vast selection of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals, as well as one credit per month to claim any Audible audiobook to keep forever (even after your subscription expires).

There are a few variants of the above Audible plans, so click the dropdown below for all the details:

How to cancel Audible subscription

Audible app: tap Profile > View Account > Manage Membership > Cancel membership > Cancel membership > Continue cancelling.

They may try to retain you with a extended discounted period or a free credit (at which point you can take the credit, grab another audiobook with it, then unsubscribe).

Browser: You can cancel Audible via your Amazon Memberships & Subscriptions page.

When you cancel, you keep your unused credits and membership perks until the end of the current billing cycle, so you'll want to make sure you use any outstanding credits before then otherwise you'll lose your opportunity to claim audiobooks.

Amazon Music

If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you get the 'Prime' tier of Amazon Music included, which lets you shuffle songs (except for All-Access Playlists, within which you can pick songs on-demand), and listen to stations and podcasts.

Amazon Music Standard and Unlimited feature all the above, as well as on-demand listening, offline listening, and various high-definition audio formats. The only difference between Standard and Unlimited is that Unlimited also lets you listen to one Audible audiobook each month (equivalent to the Audible Standard plan).

The paid Amazon Music tiers usually come with a 30-day (or longer) free trial. Given that there are four tiers of Amazon Music, here's a breakdown on what you get with each one:

How to cancel Amazon Music Unlimited

Browser: Hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions > Cancel subscription next to Amazon Music Unlimited. Follow the instructions (you can't cancel your subscription directly through the Amazon Music app).

Amazon App: Tap the profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Amazon Music settings.

Software subscriptions

One of the less heralded subscription offerings on Amazon is for the various software you can buy on the site. Office 365, Adobe Acrobat, antivirus software, and tons of other software is available to subscribe to via Amazon, which means you need to manage and cancel those subscriptions via Amazon instead of by the software publisher.

Not all software subscriptions are managed by Amazon, only the ones where 'Auto-Renewing Subscription' appears as a purchase configuration option.

How to cancel software subscriptions on Amazon

Browser: hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions, then click Cancel next to your software subscription. You can also access this page via Your Games and Software Library.

App: tap your profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Cancel next to your software subscription.