Quick answer
Open Settings, tap your name at the top of the screen, then tap Subscriptions. The list shows the active subscriptions Apple bills you for, with the price and renewal date, and the expired ones underneath. Subscriptions paid outside the App Store, straight to your card, never appear on that screen and have to be hunted down on your statement.
Your iPhone keeps the list of your subscriptions somewhere almost nobody finds on the first try, and that list only covers part of what you actually pay for. This guide covers both halves: where to see the subscriptions Apple bills, step by step, and how to find the ones that never go through Apple and therefore never show up in Settings.
Tap any item and you get the plan you are on, the price, the next renewal date and the options to change plan or cancel. The path is identical on iPad, and it is the same one described on Apple's official support page on viewing, changing and cancelling subscriptions.
There is a shortcut that works well when you are in a hurry: open the App Store, tap your profile picture in the top right corner, then tap Subscriptions. It lands on the same screen.
Can't find the Subscriptions row? Check that you are signed in with the same Apple Account that made the purchases. Subscriptions bought on another account do not show up, and that is by far the most common cause of "all my subscriptions vanished".
On the same screen, scroll to the bottom: below the active ones sits the expired section, with the history of everything you subscribed to and let lapse. That is where you check whether the free trial you started really ended, or whether it quietly converted into a paid plan.
That list is history, which is why it cannot be wiped. Expired subscriptions drop off on their own after a while, but there is no delete button. If your goal is a clean screen, the route is different: cancel whatever is still active and let the history rotate out. The behaviour of this screen, including the expired section, is described on the same Apple support page for subscriptions.
If you want a record of your own, independent of Apple, covering everything you have ever subscribed to and what it cost, that is exactly where a dedicated subscription tracker beats the native screen.
"Remove" can mean two very different things, and mixing them up costs money:
If a subscription is already cancelled and you just want it out of sight, there is nothing to do but wait: it moves to the expired section and eventually disappears.
Prism brings your App Store subscriptions and the ones charged to your card into a single monthly total, and warns you a day before every renewal. Free, private, no account.
Download Prism freeThis is the part the native screen does not solve. Settings only shows subscriptions billed by Apple, meaning ones bought inside an app through the App Store. Among the ones left out:
To find those, go through the last three months of your card statement. Flag every line that repeats with the same amount at roughly the same point in the month. Something forgotten usually surfaces on the first pass. Detailed guides for that: how to cancel subscriptions on your credit card and how to stop recurring payments at your bank.
Seeing the list is step one. The number that matters is the monthly total, with everything converted to the same basis:
It is worth doing once by hand to grasp the size of the problem. Keeping it up to date is the hard part, and it is where a dedicated app such as Prism, the subscription manager for iPhone, beats a spreadsheet: it adds up on its own, converts currencies and warns you before every charge, keeping the data on the device.
Finding out about a charge after it has landed does not help much. What changes the outcome is being warned before, with time to decide. You can do this on the iPhone itself with repeating reminders, one per renewal date, or use an app that does it automatically. For free trials, set the alert two days before the trial ends: that is the window where most unwanted charges are born.
If you use Family Sharing, part of what shows up on your statement may not have been bought by you. The family organiser pays for every member's purchases, and those charges all land on one card. On the Subscriptions screen, the organiser sees the group's shareable subscriptions; each member sees their own.
Two practical consequences. First, an "unknown" charge may belong to a family member, so it is worth asking before you dispute it. Second, not every subscription is shareable, so the same service can end up paid for twice inside the same household. Reviewing the list with the people you live with usually produces an easy cut.
When the charge has already gone through and you believe it should not have, Apple has its own channel: the Report a Problem site, where you sign in with your Apple Account, find the purchase and request a refund with a reason. Requests are reviewed case by case and typically take a few days.
Worth knowing: that route only covers purchases made through the App Store. For a subscription billed straight to your card by the service's own website, the dispute goes through your bank, not Apple. And before any request, cancel the renewal first, because a refund does not stop the next charge.
In Settings, tap your name and then Subscriptions. The same list lives in the App Store, under your profile picture, then Subscriptions.
Usually because you are signed in with a different Apple Account from the one that made the purchases. Check the account in Settings. Subscriptions that have lapsed also move to the expired section and eventually drop out of the history.
There is no option to delete the history of expired subscriptions. They stop appearing on their own over time. What you can do is cancel the ones still active.
No. Billing continues even after the app is removed from the device. Cancellation has to be done in Settings, your name, Subscriptions.
Because Apple does not bill it. Services signed up for on a website and charged straight to your card, by direct debit or through another app store are not on that list. To find them, look for repeating lines on your card statement.
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