How to Cancel All Subscriptions? Different Ways to Cancel Subscriptions

Subscriptions and how to cancel them

Subscriptions as a whole have quickly become a common occurrence for people all over the world, presenting itself as a combination of convenience and relatively low recurring payments. This allowed a massive number of different companies to introduce their own subscription services, expanding the subscription service landscape as a whole.

However, an abundance of different subscription services created an entirely different problem on its own – the amount of funds spent on recurring payments for subscriptions and services. This number seems to be growing at an alarming pace, with more and more people losing a lot of money on a monthly basis due to subscriptions they simply forgot about, or subscriptions that were not canceled in the correct way.

Different ways to cancel subscriptions

This is one of the main reasons why there are so many articles that go over various subscription cancellation methods for a specific service or membership. In the modern day it is pretty much necessary to know how to cancel subscriptions, generally speaking.

The problem itself depends on two main groups of factors. The first group represents a device type that you are going to be using to cancel a specific subscription, while the second group is about how this particular subscription was billed in the first place.

There are multiple different methods that can be used to cancel subscriptions, but it is important to know that not every service supports every method. In fact, there are plenty of services that only rely on just a handful of specific methods. As such, we can figure out some of the general subscription cancellation methods:

• In person;
• With a phone call;
• Using a mobile app;
• Using an official website;
• Using a specific device.

Canceling a subscription in person

Of course, the most traditional method of canceling your subscription anyone can think of is in-person, and it is a rather common occurrence for all kinds of fitness chains. You can find multiple examples of such services in much more detail below:

• LA Fitness Membership Cancellation
• How to Cancel Planet Fitness Membership?

While the fitness membership revolves around physically going to a gym, which makes in-person cancellation somewhat relevant, there are also services that work in a similar field but offer multiple different subscription cancellation methods – Weightwatchers is one such example. Find out more in our “How to Cancel Weightwatchers?” article.

Canceling a subscription with a phone call

A phone call is also a rather well-known method of subscription cancellation – and it is still used quite often in many different situations. A vast majority of services are capable of canceling your subscription with just a phone call, making this a rather useful method – even though it can sometimes take a while, depending on the average waiting time of the service.

A good example of a popular modern service that you can cancel your subscription to with just a phone call is HelloFresh – a popular fresh meal subscription service. Find out more in our article “How to Cancel HelloFresh?”.

Canceling a subscription using a mobile application

Mobile applications can also often be used to cancel subscriptions, and pretty much every popular service has a mobile app nowadays. However, it is important to remember that there are two major mobile operating systems in the world: iOS and Android.

While there are some cases when there is a dedicated subscription cancellation method that can be performed using the app itself, it is often transferred to an operating system itself to work with subscriptions on a device as a whole.

Our “How to Cancel Subscriptions on iPhone, iPad and Mac” article explains in detail how you can use Apple devices (including iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads) to deactivate your subscriptions. It is also easy to compare iOS and Android subscription deactivation methods using one of our articles, such as “How to Cancel ABCmouse Subscription?”. The link above makes it easy to see how similar both of these processes are, especially in their later steps – finding out the “Subscriptions” or “Memberships” menu, looking for your specific service and choosing “Cancel Subscription” option.

Canceling a subscription online

Online subscription cancellation is where the differences are often bigger than just a few steps, mostly because a lot of the websites have their own UX and design choices, and it often affects how you can locate your subscription settings. We can take several different services described in our articles as an example:

• How to Cancel Amazon Prime Subscription?
• How to Cancel Microsoft Office 365 Subscription?
• How to Cancel HBO Subscription?
• How to Cancel Hulu Subscription?

It is fairly easy to see how many differences there are between these processes, mostly from a basic design standpoint – even though the process structure itself remains more or less similar to one another.

Canceling a subscription using a specific device

Additionally, we can also include subscription services that can be canceled using a very specific device – it can be a console, a streaming appliance, or pretty much anything else.

Our first example is a gaming console – both Sony and Microsoft’s consoles can be used to cancel their respective paid subscriptions to specific services. Here is our example with Xbox Live subscription: "How to Cancel Xbox Live Subscription?", One of the methods in the article explains how you can cancel the subscription in question with nothing but a console and a gamepad in hand.

Another example here is a streaming appliance of sorts – Amazon Fire Stick, Roku Express, and other methods of streaming content to your TV using a specialized appliance. Our examples here would be:

• A CBS subscription can be canceled using Amazon Fire Stick (“How to Cancel CBS Subscription?”)
• You can also cancel a Sling TV subscription with a Roku device (“How to Cancel Sling TV?”)

It is extremely important to mention that none of these subscription cancellation methods are exclusive, and none of them are presented as a single possible choice for an end user. The overwhelming majority of services nowadays offer multiple different ways to handle a subscription, be it cancellation, pausing, or something else.