How to cancel EA Play
EasyAbout 3 minutesChecked against published steps 2 September 2026
Opens EA Play's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your EA Play account.
How are you billed?
EA Play can be cancelled direct, Apple, Google Play and Microsoft — and the steps are completely different. Check the last charge on your statement if you are not sure.
Cancelling EA Play directly
About 5 minutes · Medium
Sign in at myaccount.ea.com
Open Subscriptions
Select Cancel next to EA Play and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- You keep everything — the Play List games, the trials and the member discount — until the end of the membership period, and then the catalogue games stop being playable unless you buy them or rejoin. Your progress is not deleted. EA keeps save files unless you remove them yourself, so buying a game later or rejoining picks up where you stopped. Anything you bought with the 10% member discount is yours to keep permanently, discount included. If there is a game in the Play List you know you want, buying it before the membership ends is cheaper than buying it after. EA Play sold through PlayStation, Xbox or Steam is billed by that platform and has to be cancelled there instead.
- How we checked
- Checked against EA Play's published instructions on 2 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
Cancelling EA Play through Apple
About 3 minutes · Easy
Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, then tap your name
On the web, go to apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions
Tap Subscriptions
Select the subscription, then Cancel Subscription
- Notice period
- At least 1 day before your renewal date. Apple requires cancellation at least 24 hours before the renewal date.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for — Apple does not refund the unused part, and cancelling early does not end it sooner. The subscription disappears from your Apple subscriptions list on that date. Two things this does not do: it does not close your account with the service, so anything stored there stays where it is, and it does not get you a refund. Refunds for Apple-billed subscriptions are asked for at reportaproblem.apple.com, not from the merchant, who genuinely cannot issue one.
- How we checked
- Checked against EA Play's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
Cancelling EA Play through Google Play
About 3 minutes · Easy
Open the Play Store, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions
Tap Subscriptions and select the app
Tap Cancel subscription and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Google Play does not refund the remainder, and the subscription shows as cancelled with its end date until then. Cancelling here stops Google charging you; it does not close your account with the service or delete anything in it. A refund, if you want one, is requested through Google Play — and only within a short window, after which Google sends you to the developer.
- How we checked
- Checked against EA Play's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
Cancelling EA Play through Microsoft / Xbox
About 5 minutes · Medium
Sign in at account.microsoft.com
Open Services & subscriptions
Select Manage, then Cancel subscription
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- This is cancelled in your Microsoft account rather than with the service itself, and Microsoft offers two different endings that are easy to confuse. Turning off recurring billing leaves the subscription running to the end of the period you have already paid for and simply stops the next charge. Cancelling outright can end it there and then, and for some subscriptions Microsoft returns the unused part of what you paid — which is worth knowing, because it is the opposite of how Apple and Google handle the same situation. Which of the two you are offered depends on the subscription and how recently you were charged, so read the screen rather than assuming. Neither closes your Microsoft account or removes anything you bought outright; only the subscription ends. If the service stored files for you, check what happens to them before you confirm — storage that came with the subscription goes away with it.
- How we checked
- Checked against EA Play's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
What else are you paying for?
Find possible recurring subscriptions in your bank statement. Cancel OS reads a statement export you give it and flags the charges that look recurring, for you to confirm.