How to cancel Xbox Game Pass
Opens Xbox Game Pass's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your Xbox Game Pass account.
How are you billed?
Xbox Game Pass 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 Xbox Game Pass directly
About 6 minutes · Medium
Sign in at account.microsoft.com
Open Services & subscriptions
Select Manage next to Game Pass
Turn off recurring billing or cancel
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- Your saves, achievements and progress are safe. As long as you were signed in the last time you played, all of it is stored against your account, so a game you come back to later — bought, borrowed, or back in the catalogue — picks up where you left off. What stops is the catalogue itself. Games installed through Game Pass will not launch once the membership ends; they are licensed for as long as you subscribe, not owned. So do the useful thing BEFORE you cancel, not after: members get a discount on buying catalogue games outright, and a game you buy at that discount is yours permanently. Once the membership lapses the discount goes with it. Check whether you are on a recurring subscription or prepaid time, and whether any Game Pass came bundled with a console payment plan, because that is billed separately and does not stop here.
- How we checked
- Checked against Xbox Game Pass'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 Xbox Game Pass 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 Xbox Game Pass'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 Xbox Game Pass 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 Xbox Game Pass'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 Xbox Game Pass 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 Xbox Game Pass'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.