How to cancel The Washington Post
Opens The Washington Post's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your The Washington Post account.
How are you billed?
The Washington Post can be cancelled direct, Apple, Google Play and Amazon — and the steps are completely different. Check the last charge on your statement if you are not sure.
Cancelling The Washington Post directly
About 10 minutes · Hard
Sign in at washingtonpost.com
Open Account, then Subscription
Select Cancel subscription
Decline the discount offers and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- Digital access continues for the remainder of the current billing period, and billing stops from the following cycle. Afterwards the account is not closed — you can still read the limited number of articles a month that any visitor gets. The thing to check first is who is charging you. A subscription bought through the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon is billed by them, and The Post cannot cancel it: you have to do it in that store. Only a subscription bought directly can be cancelled from your My Post profile. Print and home delivery are a separate subscription from digital, with their own cancellation — stopping one does not stop the other.
- How we checked
- Checked against The Washington Post'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 Washington Post 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 Washington Post'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 Washington Post 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 Washington Post'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 Washington Post through Amazon
About 5 minutes · Medium
Open Your Memberships & Subscriptions on Amazon
Find the subscription and select Manage subscription
Choose to end the subscription and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- Access runs to the end of the current billing period and Amazon shows you that date when you confirm — write it down, because it is the day to check your statement. Nothing is refunded for the unused part. This ends the subscription only: your Amazon account, and your account with the service itself, are both untouched.
- How we checked
- Checked against The Washington Post'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.