How to Cancel Apple Music (2026)

Apple Music is one of those subscriptions that quietly runs in the background. Maybe you switched to Spotify six months ago, or the free trial rolled into a paid plan and you never noticed. Either way, cancelling takes under a minute.

Cancel on iPhone or iPad

1. Open Settings and tap your name at the top
2. Tap Subscriptions
3. Find Apple Music and tap it
4. Tap Cancel Subscription

Your access continues until the end of the current billing period.

Cancel on Mac

1. Open the App Store
2. Click your name in the bottom-left corner, then Account Settings
3. Scroll to Subscriptions and click Manage
4. Click Edit next to Apple Music
5. Click Cancel Subscription

Cancel on the web

1. Go to account.apple.com and sign in
2. Find Apple Music under Subscriptions
3. Click Cancel Subscription

This works from any browser, including on Windows or Android.

What happens to your music

This is the part people worry about, and rightly so.

When your subscription ends, you lose access to every song you added from the Apple Music catalogue. Downloaded tracks disappear. Playlists built from streamed music become unplayable.

Purchased music is safe. Anything you bought through iTunes stays in your library permanently, regardless of your subscription status.

Playlists may survive briefly. Apple appears to keep your library data for roughly 30 days after cancellation. If you resubscribe within that window, your playlists and library usually come back. After that, there are no guarantees. Plenty of users on Apple's support forums have resubscribed after a few months only to find everything gone.

Export your playlists first. If you're moving to Spotify or another service, use SongShift (free for individual playlists, $4.99/month for bulk transfers) to copy your playlists across before you cancel. Your source playlists are not affected by the transfer.

Watch out if you have Apple One

If your Apple Music comes through an Apple One bundle, cancelling the bundle removes all included services, not just music. If you want to keep iCloud storage or Apple TV+ but drop Apple Music, you will need to cancel Apple One and subscribe to the individual services you want separately.

Apple One Individual is $19.95/month. If you only use Apple Music ($11.99) and iCloud+ 50GB ($1.49), buying them separately is cheaper than the bundle.

Current pricing (AUD)

Worth knowing

• No free tier. Unlike Spotify, Apple Music has no ad-supported plan. Once you cancel, you lose access to streaming entirely. Purchased music still plays through the Music app.
• Free trial trap. Cancel at least 24 hours before a trial ends. If you wait until the last day, Apple may charge you for the next month.
• Family plan members. If someone else manages your Family plan, cancelling from your account only removes you. The plan manager has to cancel the whole plan.