How to Cancel YouTube TV Subscription (2026 Guide)
Cancel YouTube TV on the web, App Store, Google Play, or Roku. Plus how to pause and keep your DVR instead of canceling outright.
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Sofia Marin
Streaming & Deals Editor · July 24, 2026
Cancel YouTube TV on the web, App Store, Google Play, or Roku. Plus how to pause and keep your DVR instead of canceling outright.
YouTube TV costs $72.99 a month. That’s $876 a year, and if you’ve been watching a handful of channels out of the 100+ it includes, the math isn’t adding up in your favor.
The cancellation itself takes under 5 minutes. The catch is knowing which platform to cancel through, because going to the wrong place means the subscription keeps billing you while you think you’ve already dealt with it.
This guide covers the web cancellation steps, how to cancel if you subscribed through Apple, Google, or Roku, and a middle option most subscribers skip past: pausing instead of canceling outright.
To cancel YouTube TV, go to tv.youtube.com in any browser, sign in, click your profile icon, then go to Settings, Membership, and “Cancel membership” to confirm. Your access continues through the end of your current billing period. If you subscribed through the App Store, Google Play, or Roku, you’ll need to cancel through that platform instead.
The YouTube TV website is where you cancel if you signed up directly through YouTube or through the YouTube app on Android. The mobile app itself has no cancellation option at all, which catches a lot of people off guard when they’re hunting through menus trying to find it.
Steps to cancel on the web:
Your access doesn’t cut off at the moment of cancellation. You keep full service, live TV, cloud DVR, and any add-ons, through the end of your current billing period.
YouTube TV launched in the United States in April 2017 as Google’s live TV streaming service. The base plan cost $35/month at launch and has reached $72.99/month as of 2026. The subscription includes 100+ live channels, unlimited cloud DVR storage with a 9-month recording window, and up to 3 simultaneous streams per household. A family group allows up to 6 accounts under one subscription. YouTube TV operates on a month-to-month basis with no annual contract and no early termination fee, so canceling and resubscribing carries no financial penalty. Billing runs through Google, which means the charge shows up as “Google LLC” on card statements, a detail that catches subscribers off guard when auditing their spending. As of late 2024, YouTube TV reported over 8 million paid subscribers, one of the largest live TV streaming services in the U.S. alongside Hulu + Live TV. A full year at the current rate totals $875.88.
Where you subscribed is where you have to cancel. The YouTube TV website only handles subscriptions billed through Google directly. If you used a different platform, follow the correct path below.
Signed up through the App Store (iPhone or iPad)
Apple is handling the billing, not YouTube.
Your access still runs through the end of the current billing period after you confirm through Apple.
Signed up through Google Play (Android)
Signed up through Roku
Roku handles the billing for YouTube TV if you added it through the Roku Channel Store.
Not sure which platform you used? Check your email for the original subscription confirmation. A receipt from Apple, Google Play, or Roku in your inbox tells you who’s billing you. Or pull up your card statement and search for the charge near your YouTube TV billing date: “Google LLC,” “Apple,” or “Roku Inc” will each appear if they’re the biller.
Canceling ends your subscription until you choose to restart it. Pausing is a different move: billing stops, but your account stays fully intact.
YouTube TV lets you pause for 2 to 24 weeks, in 2-week increments. During a pause:
To pause:
Pausing makes sense for seasonal viewers. If you subscribed for NFL season, NBA playoffs, or March Madness and won’t watch much until next season rolls around, a 12-week pause at $72.99/month saves you $219 without touching your account. The same applies if you’re traveling for an extended stretch and won’t have time to watch.
If you need more than 24 weeks away, canceling and resubscribing is the cleaner option. There’s no rejoining fee, no waiting period, and YouTube TV doesn’t restrict or penalize returning subscribers.
You don’t lose access the moment you cancel. Everything, live TV, cloud DVR recordings, and any add-ons, remains active until your billing period ends.
After that, here’s what happens:
If you want to cut an add-on but keep YouTube TV itself, you can remove individual add-ons from the Membership settings page without canceling the full subscription. That’s worth doing before you cancel everything, since some add-ons (particularly NFL Sunday Ticket) may have separate annual billing terms.
One thing to confirm before you cancel: if you have NFL Sunday Ticket bundled in, check whether it’s mid-season or has remaining term. Canceling the YouTube TV base plan cancels Sunday Ticket too, but a prorated charge may still apply depending on when in the season you’re canceling.
YouTube TV’s $72.99/month sits at the higher end of the streaming market. Hulu + Live TV runs around $82.99/month (with ads), and FuboTV starts around $79.99/month for the Pro plan. If you’re cutting YouTube TV, it’s worth scanning the rest of your streaming charges at the same time.
Most people cancel one service and then realize two or three others have been quietly billing them for months. A fitness trial that auto-converted. A channel add-on from last season. A streaming service a family member signed up for on your card.
Ditchr is a free subscription tracker for iOS and Android that puts all your recurring charges in one dashboard, with renewal reminders before billing dates hit. You can run a sweep by uploading a bank statement or email receipts to catch anything you’d forgotten, and the app shows your total monthly spend across all subscriptions so you can see where the money is actually going.
Ditchr doesn’t connect to your bank and doesn’t cancel subscriptions for you. It shows you what you’re paying, sends reminders before renewals, and points you to the right cancellation page when you’re ready to act. If YouTube TV is part of a longer list of subscriptions you’ve been meaning to sort out, starting with a full picture of your charges makes the rest of the decisions easier. Try it at ditchr.app.
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Get Ditchr — freeNo. The YouTube TV mobile app has no cancel option. Go to tv.youtube.com in any browser, or cancel through the App Store, Google Play, or Roku depending on how you originally signed up.
YouTube TV doesn't issue refunds for unused time. Your access continues through the end of your current billing period, so you still get the service for the days you've already paid for.
Not right away. Your DVR recordings stay accessible until your billing period ends, then are deleted approximately 21 days after that. Pausing instead of canceling keeps recordings intact indefinitely during the pause.
Yes. YouTube TV lets you pause for 2 to 24 weeks in 2-week increments. Billing stops during the pause and your DVR library, settings, and personalized content are all preserved.
Yes. Canceling the base membership cancels all add-ons at the same time, including NFL Sunday Ticket, HBO Max, Showtime, and any other channel packages. Remove add-ons separately from Membership settings if you only want to trim the plan.
Sofia covers streaming services, free trials, and getting the most out of what you pay for. She tracks trial lengths, price hikes, and cancellation quirks so readers don't get caught by a surprise renewal.
