How to Cancel a Twitch Subscription and Turn Off Auto-Renew
To cancel a Twitch subscription, open the Subscriptions page on the Twitch website, find the channel you no longer want, and switch off auto-renew. The subscription is cancelled per channel, so repeat this for each one. If you subscribed inside the iPhone or Android app, you cancel through Apple or Google instead, not on Twitch.
How Twitch subscriptions actually work
Twitch subscriptions are not a single account-wide plan. Each one is tied to a specific channel, and each renews on its own monthly cycle. That design is why charges pile up quietly. You support one streamer in January, another in March, and a few months later you are paying for four or five channels you have half-forgotten.
There are three flavours to know about. A paid sub is the standard one, usually around €4.99 a month at the entry tier, charged directly by Twitch. A Prime sub is the free one included with an Amazon Prime membership, which lets you support one channel per month at no extra cost. And a gifted sub is one someone bought you, or one you bought for someone else. Gifted subs are normally one-off and do not auto-renew, but the paid and Prime ones do keep going until you stop them.
Because the Prime sub is free but still has to be re-applied each month, people often think they have cancelled everything when a paid sub is still ticking over in the background.
How the charge shows up on your statement
If you subscribed through the Twitch website, the line item usually reads as Twitch or Twitch Interactive. If you subscribed inside a phone app, the charge is bundled by the app store, so you will see Apple.com/Bill or Google instead, with no obvious mention of Twitch at all. This matters: the place the charge appears tells you where you have to go to cancel. A Twitch-branded charge cancels on Twitch. An app-store charge cancels in the app store.
Amounts vary by region and by the sub tier, and currency conversion can make the figure look slightly different month to month, so do not assume two similar charges are duplicates without checking the channel behind each one.
How to cancel on the Twitch website
- Sign in at the Twitch website on a desktop or mobile browser.
- Click your profile picture in the top corner, then open Subscriptions.
- You will see a list of every channel you are subscribed to, with the renewal date for each.
- Find the channel you want to drop and turn off auto-renew for it.
- Confirm when prompted.
Turning off auto-renew does not cut your access immediately. You keep your sub perks, the emotes, ad-free viewing where it applies, and the badge, until the end of the period you have already paid for. After that date it simply does not renew. Repeat the steps for every channel you want to stop, since switching one off has no effect on the others.
How to cancel a sub you bought in the app
If you tapped subscribe inside the Twitch iPhone or Android app, the billing runs through the app store and you cannot turn it off from the Twitch Subscriptions page. Cancel it where it was bought instead.
On iPhone or iPad: open Settings, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, select Twitch, and choose Cancel Subscription.
On Android: open the Google Play Store, tap your profile icon, go to Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, pick Twitch, and tap Cancel subscription.
As with the web, access usually continues until the end of the current billing period rather than stopping the moment you cancel.
Do not forget your free Prime sub
If one of the channels you cancelled was your free Prime sub, that monthly support is now sitting unused. You can re-apply it to any channel you like through the Subscriptions area, so a streamer you enjoy still gets backed without costing you anything. There is no reason to leave a free benefit on the table.
What to do with the money you free up
A couple of forgotten paid subs at roughly €5 each is around €120 a year. That is not nothing. The honest move is to keep supporting the one or two streamers who genuinely earn it and redirect the rest somewhere useful, whether that is savings, a debt payment, or simply not spending it.
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Common questions
If I turn off auto-renew, do I lose access right away?
No. You keep the channel sub and all its perks until the end of the period you already paid for. It just will not renew after that date.
Why is there still a Twitch charge after I cancelled one channel?
Subs are per channel, so cancelling one leaves the others active. Check the Subscriptions page and turn off auto-renew on each channel you no longer want.
I cancelled but the charge says Apple or Google, not Twitch. What now?
That sub was bought in the mobile app, so it has to be cancelled in your Apple or Google subscriptions. Turning it off on the Twitch website will not stop an app-store charge.
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