How to manage and cancel app subscriptions on Google Play

Open the Play Store app, tap your profile picture, tap Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. On a computer, go to play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions. You can also review subscriptions and recurring payments at pay.google.com.

If a subscription you're paying for isn't listed, you're probably signed in to a different Google account. Switch accounts from the profile picture and check again. If it isn't on any account, the app bills you directly or through Apple, so check the app's website or your bank statement.

These are Google's steps for Android. On a computer, the same subscriptions page works in any browser.

Some apps let you pause rather than cancel, which is handy for a gym or learning app you'll return to. A pause starts at the end of your current billing period and lasts from one week to three months, depending on the app. To pause: open Subscriptions, select the subscription, tap Manage, then Pause payments, choose the period and tap Confirm. To restart early, select the subscription and tap Resume.

If you pay for Play subscriptions with UPI AutoPay, Google notes two things. A subscription you cancel on Play may continue to show as active until the end of its billing period, so don't panic if it still appears. And you can't remove the UPI AutoPay payment method from your Google account until every subscription using it reaches the end of its billing cycle. Once that date passes, you can remove it, and revoke the mandate in your UPI app if it's still listed.

You keep what you've paid for. Google's example: cancel a one-year plan bought on 1 January on 1 July, and it stays active until 31 December with no renewal charge.

It's worth a quarterly look at the Subscriptions list. Four ordinary plans paid monthly come close to ₹10,000 a year. Where a plan has a family or shared tier, splitting it in a Subspace group usually costs far less than everyone paying solo.