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Sign in and open Settings
Click your profile photo at the top right, then Settings & Privacy. Confirm you are in the account that holds the plan before going further.
Cancelling is quick once you know which company is actually billing you. That one fact decides where the cancel button lives, who can issue a refund, and whether you are about to hunt for a control that was never on LinkedIn’s site to begin with.
LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Searcora Digital Ltd is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially partnered with LinkedIn unless stated otherwise. Menu names and refund windows described here belong to LinkedIn, Apple and Google, change without notice, and their own help centres are the authority.
Open the inbox attached to your card and find the latest receipt. The sender name is the whole answer, and getting it wrong is why people cancel something and get charged anyway.
A plan bought in a browser on linkedin.com is held by LinkedIn. One bought by tapping upgrade inside the iPhone app is held by Apple; on Android, by Google Play. LinkedIn displays all three as active, but it can only end the one it sold you directly — its own help pages say so and send store customers away.
| Receipt comes from | Cancel it here | Refunds handled by |
|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn or Microsoft billing | LinkedIn settings, on desktop or in the app | |
| Apple, App Store or iTunes | Apple Account subscription settings on your iPhone, iPad or Mac | Apple only |
| Google Play | Play Store subscriptions on your Android device or play.google.com | Google only |
| An employer, admin or seat invitation | Nothing to cancel — the seat holder removes it | Whoever paid |
Two traps to rule out. If you cannot find Premium controls at all, the plan may sit on a second LinkedIn profile you forgot you had — that case is covered on our page for Premium that is not showing after payment. And if you are billed twice, you hold one LinkedIn subscription and one store subscription on separate clocks. Both need cancelling.
If LinkedIn billed you directly, this takes about two minutes in a browser. Use a laptop rather than a phone — the desktop settings pages are more complete and the confirmation is easier to save.
Click your profile photo at the top right, then Settings & Privacy. Confirm you are in the account that holds the plan before going further.
Find the Premium subscription or subscriptions and payments section. It names your current plan and shows the next renewal date and amount.
LinkedIn puts downgrade and plan-comparison links beside the cancel option. Changing plan keeps you subscribed on another tier, and keeps you billed.
You will be asked why you are leaving and shown alternatives. This is a real flow, not a formality — abandoning it halfway leaves the subscription live.
Screenshot the confirmation and keep the email. If a charge appears later, that dated evidence is what settles the argument.
Cancel a few days before the renewal date, not on the day. Billing runs on LinkedIn’s clock, not your timezone, and a cancellation landing hours late is a full term’s charge you then have to argue back as a refund.
The app can cancel a subscription LinkedIn sold you. It cannot cancel one Apple or Google sold you, however confidently the screen appears to offer it.
For a LinkedIn-billed plan: open the app, tap your profile photo, then Settings, then the Premium or subscriptions entry, and follow the same cancel-and-confirm sequence as desktop. Wording differs between iOS and Android and moves between app versions, which is why the desktop route is the more reliable recommendation.
For a store-billed plan the rule is absolute: you cancel where you bought it. On iPhone or iPad that is your Apple Account subscription settings; on Android, the Play Store subscriptions list. Turning off auto-renew there is what stops the billing. Deleting the LinkedIn app does nothing — the subscription belongs to the store account, not the app.
The symptom is distinctive: LinkedIn shows Premium as active but offers no cancel control, or points you at the store. That is not a bug, and the store-versus-LinkedIn split is explained in depth here.
Cancelling a subscription and ending a subscription are two different events, sometimes months apart. Nearly every anxious question about cancelling comes from confusing them.
Confirming the cancellation switches off renewal. You have already paid for the current term, so you keep everything until it expires. There is no partial month, no pro-rata credit, and no reason to wait until the last night to get your money’s worth.
| When | What changes |
|---|---|
| The moment you confirm | Auto-renewal stops. Your plan, badge and every Premium feature keep working exactly as before. |
| Between now and the end date | Nothing changes. The subscriptions page should now show an end date instead of a next-payment date. |
| On the end date | The account drops to free. Premium features and the badge disappear that day, without a further warning. |
| After that | No further charges. Your profile, connections, messages and content stay exactly as they are. |
Reopen the subscriptions page after cancelling and confirm it names an expiry date. A page still showing a renewal date means the flow never completed — the single most common cause of the “I cancelled and was charged anyway” complaint.
Everything Premium adds switches off together when the term ends. The item people forget is the one with real cash value: unused InMail credits.
Credits accrue while you are subscribed and belong to the subscription, not your profile. They are not refunded, not transferable and not banked for a future plan, so any still unspent when the term expires are gone. If you have a stack of them and people you meant to contact, spend them before the end date. Replies you already received stay in your inbox permanently — only the unspent allowance lapses.
The rest goes at the same moment: the badge, the expanded view of who viewed your profile, salary and applicant insights, extended search limits, unlimited profile browsing and LinkedIn Learning. Courses you completed and certificates already added to your profile stay on the profile; the library itself closes.
Sales Navigator is a separate subscription with its own losses — saved leads, lead lists and saved searches live inside that product, and its trial has its own end-of-term behaviour, covered on our Sales Navigator free trial page. Recruiter Lite is separate again, and notably cannot be downgraded in place; see the Recruiter Lite page.
Cancelling and refunding are separate requests. Cancelling stops the next payment; it does not return the one already taken. If you want money back, you have to ask, and ask quickly.
LinkedIn’s published guidance describes a window of roughly seven days from the charge, and generally expects that Premium features went unused. Send an InMail or run Premium-only searches after the charge lands and you materially weaken the request. UK and EU buyers also hold statutory cancellation rights on top of any company policy, commonly described as fourteen days — worth naming politely if a first request is declined. Read LinkedIn’s current refund article first, because the wording is revised periodically.
Ask whoever took the money. Apple refunds Apple purchases through its report-a-problem process, Google refunds Play purchases through your order history, and LinkedIn refunds only what LinkedIn charged. Being redirected between them is not a brush-off; it is how the billing genuinely works.
Make it easy to approve: the order reference, the charge date and amount, one plain sentence saying why, and the cancellation confirmation attached. Keep it short and unemotional — an agent is matching your request to a policy, not weighing a story. A bank chargeback is a last resort, since disputing a charge with a platform you still use can leave the account restricted.
Cancelling a trial does not end it early. LinkedIn runs it to the original end date and simply stops it converting, so there is no benefit whatsoever in waiting.
Cancel on day two if you like — you still get the full trial. Waiting for the final evening is how people get charged, because conversion runs on LinkedIn’s billing clock rather than yours and a few hours’ drift becomes a full month. Set a reminder three days before the end date.
If the trial started inside the iOS or Android app, the conversion charge comes from the store, and the store is where you stop it. If it already converted while you were not looking, you are no longer cancelling a trial — you are cancelling a paid plan and asking for a refund on a days-old charge, which is what the refund section above is written for.
Eligibility does not reset because you cancelled cleanly. Accounts that have used a trial often never see the offer again, and passing twelve months guarantees nothing. If a trial was your plan, read the honest routes on our free LinkedIn Premium page.
Cancelling a subscription does not touch your LinkedIn account. This is the fear that keeps people paying for months they do not want, and it is unfounded.
Your profile stays published. Connections, followers, recommendations, endorsements, messages, posts, saved jobs and applications are account data, not subscription data, and none of it depends on Premium. InMail conversations you already had remain readable. What you lose is the ability to start new ones and the Premium-only reporting layers.
You can resubscribe whenever you like and the features switch back on. Two caveats. The price offered on return is the current list price, not whatever you were paying — there is no legacy rate. And a returning subscriber is very unlikely to be offered another free trial. If you are weighing whether to come back at all, our worth-it verdict on Premium argues both sides.
One case that surprises people: if you move country, LinkedIn generally expects you to cancel and resubscribe rather than switch billing country on a live plan. Card and country mismatches are a hard wall, not a payment glitch.
Cancel and buy nothing. For most people reading this that is the right answer, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
If you have not sent an InMail in two months, if the analytics were interesting once and never again, or if you subscribed for one job search that is now over, leave and come back when there is a reason. Paying to keep a badge is not a strategy.
The narrower case is different: the plan was earning its keep and the monthly figure is what broke. Check LinkedIn’s own site for current retail pricing, because third-party figures conflict badly — see why published Premium prices disagree. Searcora activates the same plans as a paid service on shorter terms: Premium Career at $25 for two months, $90 for six or $140 for twelve; Premium Business at $30, $100 or $150; Sales Navigator Advanced from $30 for one month to $340 for twelve; Core at $30 a month; Recruiter Lite at $50 a month.
The mechanic matters more than the number. A licence seat is assigned to your own email address, and you accept the invitation while logged into your own LinkedIn account — same profile, same connections, same message history. No password is requested, shared or needed. Activation typically completes within 24 hours and 30 days of working support follows; the walkthrough is on the activation page. Anything you meet elsewhere involving a ready-made account, a shared login or region spoofing breaches LinkedIn’s terms and risks the profile you spent years building.
Searcora Digital Ltd is a UK registered company at 78 Dulverton Road, London, SE9 3RL. Prices above are our own activation-service prices, not LinkedIn discounts or official rates. If a free trial or a student, veteran or nonprofit entitlement covers you, take that instead. Our written terms say what happens if an activation cannot be completed.