How to cancel your Hulu subscription on desktop and on your phone

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In a world where new streaming services seem to be announced every day, it can be exhausting to keep track of your subscriptions and what's streaming where. We get it: Sometimes you just have to consolidate.

If your next steps to consolidate include canceling your Hulu subscription, you've come to the right place. There are several ways to end your Hulu subscription, depending on what device or operating system you're using. We've assembled a guide on the three different ways you can cancel Hulu: from your desktop, your iOS device, and your Android device. Check them out below.

How to cancel Hulu on desktop

Total Time
  • 2 minutes
What You Need
  • Laptop or computer
  • Hulu account

Step 1: Log into your Hulu account. Click on your profile icon in the top right of the screen.

The Hulu home page, with a red arrow pointing at the user profile icon in the top right corner.
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards / Hulu

Step 2: Select "Account" from the drop-down menu that appears.

Doing this will bring you to your account page.

The account drop-down menu on Hulu's homepage, with a red oval around "Account."
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards / Hulu

Step 3: Scroll to the bottom until you find "Cancel Your Subscription."

Then, hit the "Cancel" button.

The Hulu account management page, with a red circle around the word "Cancel."
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards / Hulu

Step 4: Press "Cancel Subscription" again.

Hulu may offer you the chance to pause your subscription instead of canceling it completely. Simply press "continue to cancel" to keep canceling your account. To finish, select the reason why you are canceling the account, and click "continue to cancel."

The Hulu cancellation page, with a red circle around "Cancel Subscription."
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards / Hulu

You will have access to your account until the end of your billing period. You can reactivate your subscription by returning to your account page and resubscribing.


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How to cancel Hulu on iOS

If you are an iOS user, you won't be able to cancel your subscription in the Hulu app. However, you can cancel your subscription on your desktop browser using the above set of instructions, or you can cancel it through your iPhone's subscriptions.

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Total Time
  • 2 min
What You Need
  • iPhone

Step 1: Open your "Settings" app and select your Apple ID.

A screenshot of the iPhone Settings app.
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards

Step 2: Select "Subscriptions."

A screenshot of an Apple ID page in iPhone's Settings app, with a red circle around "Subscriptions."
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards

Step 3: Choose your Hulu subscription.

A screenshot of the Apple Subscriptions screen, with a red circle around "Hulu."
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards

Step 4: Select "cancel your subscription."

A screenshot of the "edit subscription" screen in the Settings app, with "Cancel Free Trial" circled in red.
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards

Step 5: Confirm the cancellation one last time.

A screenshot saying "confirm cancellation," with "confirm" circled in red.
Credit: Screenshot: Belen Edwards

You will have access to your account until the end of your billing period. If you want to resubscribe, you can return to your subscriptions page and choose to renew your subscription.

How to cancel Hulu in the app on Android

Unlike iOS users, Android users can cancel Hulu subscriptions in-app. First, open the app. Click on your profile icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. You may have to re-enter your password.

Once you're on your account screen, scroll down until you see "Cancel your subscription," and select "Cancel."

Hulu will offer you the option to pause your account instead of canceling it completely. You can set the length of time you'd like to pause your account, or you can choose "continue to cancel."

To finish the cancellation, select the reason why you are canceling the account. Click "continue to cancel."

You will have access to your Hulu account until the end of your billing period. You can reactivate your subscription by returning to your account page and resubscribing.

UPDATE: Sep. 22, 2025, 3:51 p.m. EDT This article was originally published on Oct. 14, 2021. It has since been updated.

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Belen Edwards
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Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.

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