How to cancel Disney+

Disney+ is one of the services where the cancel button genuinely moves around: you may be billed by Disney directly, by Apple, or as part of a bundle. Finding out who bills you is the whole job; the cancelling itself takes a minute.

Step one: check who bills you

Look at where the charge lands. A Disney+ line on your card means direct billing. An Apple charge means you subscribed through the App Store. A Hulu, Max or telecoms charge means a bundle, and the bundle owner is who you cancel with.

If Disney bills you directly

1. Sign in at the Disney+ website in a browser.
2. Open your account settings and select your subscription.
3. Choose cancel and confirm.

You keep watching until the end of the paid period.

If you subscribed through Apple

Open Settings, your name, Subscriptions, tap Disney+, and cancel there. The general iPhone guide covers the details, including why deleting the app changes nothing.

Worth knowing

• Bundles cancel as a unit. If your Disney+ comes in a duo or trio bundle with Hulu or ESPN+, cancelling the bundle ends all of it; check what you’d actually lose first.
• Annual plans refund poorly. Cancelling an annual plan mid-year generally just stops renewal rather than refunding the remainder, so set a reminder before the yearly date instead of paying for a thirteenth month you didn’t want.