Okay, I gave Apple Music a shot. It’s been two months. But I don’t want to keep it and I don’t have a clue how to turn off or disable autorenewal in iTunes. Help!
That’s a great question because we’re just about at the three month mark post introduction of Apple Music, so I think a lot of people are going to be darn curious about how to check their Apple Music auto-renewal settings and possibly turn them off. Here’s the good news: If you turn it off you can still pay on a monthly basis for Apple Music manually, or just for those months you think you’re really going to be listening to a lot of music. There’s also a family plan for just a few dollars more: perhaps your friends can get together and you can divide and conquer that pesky price tag? (then again, it’s cheaper than buying one CD/month)
To start, Apple Music is all controlled within iTunes, either on your iOS device or, as I’ll demonstrate in this tutorial, within the iTunes program on your Mac (or Windows PC) too.
To start, get to the main iTunes Window and click on the tiny silhouette icon:
As you can see, choose “Account Info” to proceed (though some of the other entries are worth exploring if you have a few minutes).
A click on Account Info and you’ll be prompted to enter your password – which is good!
On the assumption you have correctly entered your password, click on “View Account”.
You’ll need to scroll down a bit to find “Settings”, as shown:
Notice the entry for Subscriptions. That’s where your Apple Music account is set up. Not very overt, is it?
Hint: if you have “subscriptions: 0” then you’re good to go, never having turned on Apple Music’s auto-renewal.
In any case, click on the Manage link adjacent to the Subscriptions field.
Here’s the first useful bit of information: Our Apple Music subscription is active, it’s the “Free Trial” and it’ll be free until Nov 19, 2015, almost 6 weeks from today! You can let it ride, but even if you turn off automatic renewal of your Apple Music account, you can still enjoy it until that date, right?
In the middle you can see the two options: $9.99/mo for an individual membership in Apple Music, or $14.99/mo for a family membership, which gives you up to six accounts that can share a single membership (which means that it turns out to be about $2.50 per person/mo if you wanted to share it with your own family).
We’re going to turn off automatic renewal for Apple Music by clicking on the “Off” button in the “Automatic Renewal” section of the window. A click on “Done” and, well, it seeks confirmation:
I always read these as “awww, come on, won’tcha just keep it on so we can bill you automatically?” but you might see it slightly less skeptically 🙂
Click “Turn Off” if you’re sure you want to disable auto-renewal for your Apple Music account.
That’s it. No renewal, just options to pay for more time.
Hope that helps you out!