How to cancel The Guardian
Opens The Guardian's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your The Guardian account.
How are you billed?
The Guardian can be cancelled direct, Apple and Google Play — and the steps are completely different. Check the last charge on your statement if you are not sure.
Cancelling The Guardian directly
About 4 minutes · Easy
Sign in at manage.theguardian.com
Select your contribution or subscription
Choose Cancel and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- The 14-day mark is what decides whether you get money back. Cancel within the first 14 days of your initial sign-up and, for most Guardian subscriptions and contributions, you are entitled to a FULL REFUND. Cancel after that and the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, with no refund for that period or any before it. Either way you keep your access until the end of the cycle you have paid for, and nothing further is charged. If you subscribed through an app store, the Guardian cannot refund you at all — that request has to go through Apple or Google. Two things worth knowing. The Guardian does make exceptions outside the 14-day window in some circumstances, a duplicate subscription among them, so it is worth asking if that is your situation rather than assuming. And live event tickets follow different rules entirely: non-refundable if you cancel, fully refundable only if the Guardian cancels the event.
- How we checked
- Checked against The Guardian'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 The Guardian 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 The Guardian'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 The Guardian 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 The Guardian'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.