How do I cancel Amazon Prime? Here's how to quit your Prime subscription

It isn't hard to leave Amazon Prime, here's an easy step-by-step guide

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With the news that Amazon is to increase its Prime subscription service from £7.99 to £8.99 per month in the UK (and even more across parts of Europe) from 15th September, it's no surprise that many people will be looking to cancel their Amazon Prime subscription in the face of the cost of living crisis. 

It isn't hard to quit Prime either, as I'll show you in this step-by-step guide. However, before you do, consider my hack to pay less for your Prime membership. It's a change that monthly subscription members can make, as I have, to lower the equivalent monthly cost to £6.59 per month by adopting an annual payment plan.

Anyway, if that's not for you, and you really and truly want to cancel Amazon Prime entirely, here's how you can easily do so, whether using a web browser of the Amazon Shopping app.

*Update*: shortcut link for quick access to Amazon's Edit Membership cancellation page

1. Login and go to Your Account

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Go to www.amazon.co.uk (or www.amazon.com if you're in the US) and, if you're not signed in, do so under the 'Hello, sign in / Account & Lists' to the upper right. If you're using the Amazon Shopping app on Apple or Android instead then this will automatically prompt you to login.

Once you're signed in, the browser format offers a drop menu under that same Accounts & Lists: the top right of this list houses Your Account. If you're instead using the Amazon Shopping app, click the trio of lines to the bottom right and then the Your Account from the menu that pops up. 

2. Access Prime, change membership

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Within this Your Account section you'll see a series of tiles, the top right of which is access to all things Amazon Prime. Within the app it's to the top left under the trio of lines menu, otherwise under Your Account > Account Settings > Prime Membership

In here is where you can view your plan type and the renewal date. To cancel you'll want to select the 'Manage / Membership' to the far right, then click the 'Update, cancel and more' drop menu from there. Within the app there's a 'Manage membership' drop menu up top of the Prime Membership section, which reveals the same 'Update, cancel and more' option. 

3. End your membership

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'Update, cancel and more' reveals a very clear 'End membership' option, which it's easy to click if you wish to surrender your Prime benefits. Which, obviously, Amazon doesn't want you to do. So here's the part where you'll have to jump through a few pages to absolutely confirm you're done with the service.

The first screen will tell you all about your delivery, Prime Video, and other benefits. Select 'I Do Not Want My Benefits' and you'll be taken to a 'Confirm membership cancellation' page. Here you can select the 'End Prime Benefits on X date' and you'll have until the end of your subscription period to make use of Prime before you're not longer a member. 

During your exit period – which Amazon will try and get you to reconsider, using my money-saving annual Prime subscription hack – you might want to watch these 3 unmissable shows first, before your Prime membership dries up. Although, given that The Boys is coming back for season four in 2023, you might well end up signing back up to Prime again in the future anyway...

Mike Lowe
Tech Editor

Mike is the Tech Editor and AV Editor at T3.com. He's been writing about consumer technology for 15 and, as a phones expert, has seen hundreds of handsets over the years – swathes of Android devices, a smattering of iPhones, and a batch of Windows Phone products (remember those?). But that's not all, as a tech aficionado his beat for T3 also covers tablets, laptops, gaming, home cinema, TVs, speakers and more – there's barely a stone unturned that he's not had a hand on. Previously the Reviews Editor at Pocket-lint for a 10 years, he's also provided work for publications such as Wired, The Guardian, Metro, and more. In addition to his tech knowledge, Mike is also a flights and travel expert, having travelled the globe extensively. You'll likely find him setting up a new mobile phone, critiquing the next MacBook, all while planning his next getaway... or cycling somewhere.