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How to cancel Medium Membership

Free · no accountUpdated 20 August 2026

Sign in at medium.com and open Settings > Membership > Cancel membership. App store purchases are cancelled in the app store. Membership runs to the end of the paid term. Your highlights and reading list stay on the free account.

Step by step

  1. 1Sign in at medium.com and open Settings > Membership > Cancel membership.
  2. 2App store purchases are cancelled in the app store.
  3. 3Membership runs to the end of the paid term.
  4. 4Your highlights and reading list stay on the free account.
Open Medium Membership’s cancel page

Cancelled and still charged?

Then the charge is not coming from Medium Membership. Whoever took your money holds the subscription — if you subscribed inside an app, it is the app store, and only the app store can stop it.

How to subscribe to Medium Membership

For when you want it back — or want to start on the right plan this time.

  1. 1Create an account at medium.com.
  2. 2Open Settings > Membership and choose monthly or annual.
  3. 3Annual is roughly two months cheaper.
  4. 4You can read a limited number of member stories free each month first.
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And the rest of them?

Medium Membership was one. Most people are paying for between eight and twelve things and can name four. TotalSubs puts them on one screen with one number, and warns you before the next one renews.

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