Cancel it from wherever you started paying.
This is the part that trips most people up. You have to cancel LinkedIn Premium through the same channel you used to subscribe. If you signed up on the web, you cancel on the web. If you subscribed inside the iPhone app, Apple is billing you, so you cancel through Apple. Cancel in the wrong place and the charge keeps coming.
Here's how to do it in each case.
On desktop (web)
If you subscribed on linkedin.com, this is you.
- Click your profile photo (the Me icon) at the top right of LinkedIn.
- Click Access My Premium or Premium features.
- On the Premium page, find Manage Premium account on the right side.
- Click Cancel subscription, pick a reason, then confirm with Continue to cancel.
That's the whole flow. You'll get a confirmation that your plan won't renew.
On iPhone (cancel through Apple)
If you tapped "subscribe" inside the LinkedIn iOS app, Apple handles the billing, not LinkedIn. Cancelling in the LinkedIn app does nothing on its own.
- Open the iPhone Settings app.
- Tap your name at the top.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Tap LinkedIn, then Cancel Subscription.
On Android (cancel through Google Play)
Same idea if you subscribed in the Android app.
- Open the Google Play Store.
- Tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions.
- Tap Subscriptions, select LinkedIn, then Cancel subscription.
Why won't LinkedIn let me cancel?
Almost always, it's the channel mismatch above. If there's no cancel button on the website, you subscribed through Apple or Google, so the option lives in your phone's subscription settings, not on LinkedIn. The other common case is a Premium Company Page subscription, which is separate from your personal Premium and is cancelled from the company page admin settings.
Does it end immediately, and do I get a refund?
No, and usually no. When you cancel, you keep Premium until the end of the billing period you already paid for, then it drops to a free account. LinkedIn generally does not refund unused time on a monthly plan, so there's no benefit to cancelling the same day you're charged. You might as well use the rest of the period.
Cancelling before a free trial ends
If you're on a free trial and you don't want to be charged, cancel before the trial end date shown on your Premium page. You keep the trial features until that date, and no charge goes through. Set a reminder a day or two early, since the charge lands the moment the trial expires.
Before you cancel, ask what you were actually paying for
Most people buy Premium for one of three things: to see who viewed their profile, to send InMail, or to get better analytics on their posts. If it's the analytics you'll miss, you don't need a $40-a-month subscription to get them.
MyFeedIn's LinkedIn analytics tracks your posts and comments over time, in one place, for a fraction of Premium's price, so you can see which hooks and topics actually grow your reach. If you're still deciding whether the subscription is worth it at all, we broke down the math in is LinkedIn Premium worth it?.