How to Cancel Apple News+
Before anything else: Apple News (free app, red icon) and Apple News+ ($12.99/mo paywall inside that app) are two different things. You are cancelling the paid one. The free app stays put. Once that is straight, the cancel itself is four taps.
The fast path (iPhone or iPad)
Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Apple News+ → Cancel Subscription. You keep access until the end of the current billing period. Apple does not throw a discount, a pause offer, or a survey at you.
If Apple News+ does not show up in that list, skip down to the Apple One Premier section. That is almost certainly what is going on.
The four taps, slower
Open Settings and tap your name at the top
Your name and Apple ID photo sit above everything. Must be the same Apple ID that bought News+, not a family member's.
Tap Subscriptions
About a third of the way down the panel, between Family and iCloud. You will see every active and expired subscription tied to this Apple ID, not just the Apple ones.
Tap Apple News+
If you see it as its own row, you have a standalone subscription. If you don't, you got News+ via Apple One Premier, and the cancel lives somewhere else entirely. See below.
Tap the red Cancel Subscription button, confirm
Tap it, confirm in the pop-up, done. You'll get an email receipt within a few minutes. If you don't, check Subscriptions again: News+ should now show "Expires on [date]" instead of a renewal date.
On a Mac: App Store, click your name, Account Settings, scroll to Subscriptions, Manage, Cancel. On the web: account.apple.com/account/manage/section/subscriptions, sign in, pick News+, cancel.
The thing Apple's cancel doc doesn't put up front
If News+ came via Apple One Premier, you can't cancel just News+.
Premier ($37.95/mo) is the only tier with News+, and the bundle is sold as one product. No "Cancel News+" button exists. Cancel the whole bundle or downgrade to Family/Individual (drops News+ and Fitness+; cuts iCloud+ from 2TB to 200GB or 50GB). See our Apple One cancel guide for the per-tier breakdown.
When the charge actually stops
Paywalled access (magazines, newspapers, curated WSJ) runs to the end of the current billing period. No prorated refund, no early-termination fee, monthly only. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal per Apple's cancel-a-subscription doc, or next month's charge often still goes through.
Got charged anyway? Apple's policy is all transactions final, but Support frequently grants one-time goodwill refunds via reportaproblem.apple.com. Ask once, politely. The second time, the answer is usually no.
Two heads-ups before you tap
If you're a Family Organizer
Standalone News+ includes Family Sharing for up to five others. The moment you cancel, all of them lose access at the same time. No grace period for them.
If you bought a new iPhone or iPad recently
Eligible device purchases come with a 3-month News+ trial that converts silently to $12.99/mo with no reminder email. Multiple users on the Apple Community forums only found out when the charge hit. Cancel now and Apple keeps your access through the trial end date anyway.
Questions people actually ask
I cancelled, but the Apple News app is still on my phone. Did it work?
Yes. Apple News (free app) and Apple News+ (paid tier inside it) are different. Cancelling News+ only removes paywalled magazines and newspapers. Confirm at Settings → your name → Subscriptions: News+ should show under Expired.
Did I just cancel my full Wall Street Journal access too?
You never had it. News+ gives you a curated selection of WSJ articles, not the full subscription. A standalone WSJ account was always separate.
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