Turning off auto-renew takes about fifteen seconds and does not cut your access short. Do it the day you subscribe, not the day before it renews.
Cancelling is not hidden or difficult, but it is not where people look for it, and the wording confuses everyone the first time.
The switch
Auto-renew lives on the creator's page, in your subscription details for that specific creator. Not in a global billing menu, not in your account settings. Each subscription is switched off separately.
If you subscribe to five pages, that is five switches.
Cancelling does not end your access
Turning off auto-renew stops the next charge. You keep the page until the 30 days you paid for run out.
Which means there is no reason to wait. Subscribe, switch off renewal immediately, enjoy the month you bought, and let it lapse. You lose nothing by cancelling early and you lose a month's fee by forgetting.
What it does not undo
- Money already spent on paid messages. Those are separate purchases, and cancelling a subscription has nothing to do with them.
- The current period's charge. It is already taken.
- Tips. Gone the moment you send them.
If a charge appears that you did not expect
Check whether it is a renewal or a paid message. They look similar on a statement and they mean very different things: a renewal means you left the switch on, a message charge means something was unlocked.
Both go to the platform, not to the creator directly, and the platform's support handles disputes. Chargebacks through your bank can get your whole account closed, so that is a last resort rather than a first move.
Keeping the number under control
The realistic failure mode is not one expensive page, it is four cheap ones you forgot about. At the $10 median, four forgotten subscriptions is $40 a month for pages you are not reading.
The wishlist on this site helps here in a small way: the heart on any card saves a profile without subscribing, so you can keep a shortlist instead of keeping four live subscriptions.
Figures pulled from the OnlyLocus catalog on August 19, 2026, covering all 182,191 published profiles.
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