How to Cancel Kindle Unlimited
Kindle Unlimited is the $11.99-a-month subscription Amazon does not include with Prime, and the one most people forget about after they cancel Prime. The cancel itself takes three clicks on amazon.com. You just have to be on the web, not the Kindle app.
Read this first
Kindle Unlimited is not Prime Reading.
This is the single biggest reason people show up on our Amazon Prime cancel guide a month later, furious. They cancelled Prime, assumed every Amazon-flavored book benefit went with it, and only noticed the $11.99 still hitting their card when the next statement landed.
Prime Reading is the small rotating library bundled with Prime. Kindle Unlimited is the bigger all-you-can-borrow catalog that costs $11.99 a month on its own. They share a brand and a reading app. They do not share a bill. Canceling one does nothing to the other.
The three clicks (web only)
Heads up: Amazon removed cancellation from the iOS Kindle app. If you are on an iPhone, open Safari or Chrome instead. Privacy.com's KU writeup confirms the button is gone.
Sign in at amazon.com/kindleunlimited
In any browser, go straight to amazon.com/kindleunlimited and sign in. If you have a household with multiple Amazon logins, make sure you are on the one that owns the KU subscription. They are billed separately.
Click Manage Membership, then Cancel Kindle Unlimited Membership
Under Membership Settings you will find Cancel Kindle Unlimited Membership. If that link is missing on mobile (a known and very irritating UX bug), open a private window and sign in fresh. That fixes it nine times out of ten.
Skip the pause offer and click Continue to Cancel
Amazon will pitch a one-month pause, and sometimes a discount or "3 months for $0.99" win-back. These are real options, not blockers. Click Continue to Cancel to finish. The next screen confirms the date your membership ends. Take a screenshot of it.
When the charge stops, and what happens to your books
You will not get a prorated refund. Amazon's terms only issue prorated refunds when they terminate a membership, not when you do. The flip side: you keep full KU access until the end of the current billing period, so finish what you are reading.
On that end date, every book you borrowed is removed from your library. Downloaded copies on your Kindle or Kindle app stay visible but become locked, which is its own special kind of confusing. Anything you actually bought from Amazon is untouched and stays yours. Highlights and notes you made in KU books are saved to read.amazon.com/notebook indefinitely, but you cannot reopen them in context unless you re-borrow the book on a future membership or purchase the title.
If your free trial just charged you
Amazon's stated policy is no refund for user-initiated cancels. In practice, support reps grant one-time goodwill refunds for charges that hit right after a 30-day trial auto-converted, especially if you have not borrowed anything that cycle. Open chat from Amazon's contact page, be brief, be polite, ask once. Many people get it. It is a courtesy, not a guarantee.
Questions readers actually ask
Will canceling Amazon Prime also cancel Kindle Unlimited?
No. They are separate subscriptions on separate bills. Prime includes Prime Reading (a smaller catalog). Kindle Unlimited is its own $11.99-a-month membership and you have to cancel it directly at amazon.com/kindleunlimited.
Can I get a refund if my free trial just auto-converted to a paid month?
Amazon's terms say no refund for user cancels. In practice, support reps often grant a one-time goodwill refund for a surprise post-trial charge, particularly if you did not borrow anything that month. Contact them within a few days of the charge, via chat or phone, and ask once.
What happens to my borrowed books after I cancel?
They stay readable until the end of the current billing period, then they are removed from your library. Downloaded copies on your device become locked. Books you purchased separately are not affected.
Will I lose my highlights and notes from KU books?
No. They are saved indefinitely to read.amazon.com/notebook. You can view them after canceling. To reopen them inside the actual book, you have to re-borrow it on a future KU subscription or buy the title outright.
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