So you’ve got all you can get from PlayStation Plus. You signed up for a cheap (or even free) trial subscription, but you don’t want it to run over into a period of Sony actually charging you for the service. Or, perhaps, you love your PlayStation Plus – playing Fall Guys with your friends, chatting online, and reaping the rewards of your subscription, but have fallen on hard times, and need to cut back on unnecessary expenditures. Maybe your partner, flatmate, or child has inadvertently signed you up to the Plus subscription service, and you’ve only just noticed!
Well, you’re probably wondering how to cancel your subscription, and you’d probably rather that the process was relatively quick and pain-free. Thankfully for you, it is.
To cancel your Plus subscription, just follow these few simple steps:
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Cancel a PlayStation Plus subscription in your web browser
- Open up your preferred web browser, and navigate to the Sony Entertainment Network website – https://id.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/signin/.
- Once there, log-in to your account (using the same ID and password with which you set-up the PlayStation Plus account in the first place)
- From the menu on the left of the Account Management page, select ‘Subscription’
- Next to PlayStation Plus, select ‘Turn Off Auto-Renew’
- Your subscription has now been effectively cancelled, and will complete cancellation once any previously-paid for subscription period ends (i.e. if your PlayStation Plus subscription has already been paid until the end of the month, you will still have access to PlayStation Plus until then, after which point your subscription will be cancelled)
Cancel a PlayStation Plus subscription on a PS4
- Turn on your PS4 and sign-in to the account attached to your PlayStation Plus subscription
- Navigate to PlayStation Plus
- Locate and click on ‘Manage Membership’, then click on ‘Subscription’
- Select ‘Turn Off Auto-Renewal’
- Your subscription has now been effectively cancelled, and will complete cancellation once any previously-paid for subscription period ends (i.e. if your PlayStation Plus subscription has already been paid until the end of the month, you will still have access to PlayStation Plus until then, after which point your subscription will be cancelled)
Cancel a PlayStation Plus subscription on a PS5
- Turn on your PS5 and sign-in to the account attached to your PlayStation Plus subscription
- Navigate to Settings, then Users & Accounts
- Select Account, then Payment and Subscriptions, then Subscriptions, and finally select PlayStation Plus
- Select ‘Turn Off Auto-Renew’
- Your subscription has now been effectively cancelled, and will complete cancellation once any previously-paid for subscription period ends (i.e. if your PlayStation Plus subscription has already been paid until the end of the month, you will still have access to PlayStation Plus until then, after which point your subscription will be cancelled)
And there you have it, as easy as following the relevant five-step tutorial above, and you can cancel your unwanted PlayStation Plus subscription, safe in the knowledge that should you ever wish to reactivate it, all of the games, data, and perks you previously had access to through your Plus membership, will be there waiting for you.
Frequently asked questions
What will happen to my games when I cancel PS Plus?
After canceling your Plus subscription, and once the pre-paid period comes to an end, all of the content you downloaded for free through the subscription (e.g. monthly games) will not now be available to you. Nevertheless, anything you have paid for (as well as packs and avatars downloaded as part of Plus) will remain yours forever.
What happens if I reactivate my cancelled Plus subscription at a later date?
If you cancel your subscription and leave it to expire, but later wish to reactivate it, once you have done so you will once again be granted access to all of the content which you previously enjoyed as part of Plus (monthly games, for example). So fear not, you can cancel your subscription without deleting any of your saved data, and with the knowledge that everything you downloaded through the subscription will be yours again if you ever decide to reactivate it.
