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You can cancel Medium via Website (Settings → Membership and payment) or iOS App Store (if purchased via Apple) or Google Play Store (if purchased via Google). Subscription fees are final and nonrefundable unless Medium decides otherwise. If you cancel, you keep member access until the start of the next billing period but get no refund or credit for the remaining days. Medium gives no price protection or refunds when prices drop or for promotional offers.. Steps: Go to medium.com and sign in to your account.. On your homepage, click your profile picture and click 'Settings'..

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Website (Settings → Membership and payment), iOS App Store (if purchased via Apple), Google Play Store (if purchased via Google)

Refund Eligibility

Subscription fees are final and nonrefundable unless Medium decides otherwise. If you cancel, you keep member access until the start of the next billing period but get no refund or credit for the remaining days. Medium gives no price protection or refunds when prices drop or for promotional offers.

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How to Cancel — Step by Step

  1. 1Go to medium.com and sign in to your account.
  2. 2On your homepage, click your profile picture and click 'Settings'.
  3. 3In the 'Membership and payment' section, click 'Cancel your membership.'
  4. 4Follow the on-screen prompts to confirm.
  5. 5You keep all member benefits until the end of your current billing cycle.

Billed Through a Third Party?

  • If subscribed via Apple (iTunes): on your iPhone/iPad go to Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Store > your Apple ID > View Apple ID > Subscriptions > Medium membership > Cancel subscription. Uninstalling the Medium app does NOT cancel your subscription.
  • If subscribed via Google Play: in the Play Store tap the profile icon > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions, select the Medium subscription and tap Cancel subscription.
  • Deleting your Medium account does NOT automatically cancel an iTunes or Google Play subscription — you will still be charged until you cancel through that store.

Reactivating Your Account

  • Gift Memberships last one year from activation; to use one while you already have a membership, first cancel your existing membership via yourfriends.medium.com.

Additional Notes

  • Medium Member: $50/year — member-only stories, audio narrations and offline reading.
  • Friend of Medium: $150/year — all Member benefits, plus writers earn 4x when you read their stories and you can share member-only stories with anyone.
  • Medium may offer free trials to new members; cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged.
  • Your membership is for one Medium account only and can't be shared with other accounts.

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