In case you use a Fire TV and need to cancel a Prime Video channel or streaming service app subscription, it is not precisely simple to do. Fortunately, Pocket-lint has discovered how, so you do not have to spend one other minute clicking round, attempting to determine all of it out.
Prime Video channels vs streaming service apps
The very first thing it is advisable do is ask your self if the service you need to cancel is an “Amazon Prime Video channel” that you just instantly subscribed to by a Fireplace TV or the Amazon Prime Video app. If not, is it a service you’ve got subscribed to by the supplier’s app? You additionally want to recollect whether or not you used your Amazon billing data to subscribe. Confused? Permits us to clarify…
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What are Amazon Prime Video Channels?
As an Amazon Prime subscriber, you get a number of advantages together with entry to Amazon Prime Video which incorporates an enormous catalogue of TV reveals, motion pictures and Amazon Prime exclusives. However in the event you’re a Prime member who makes use of a Fireplace TV or good TV with the Prime Video app, you can even seek for a present like Star Trek Discovery or Yellowstone and see the choice to look at it by Paramount+.
Amazon will even allow you to join with just some clicks. All the pieces will undergo your Amazon account, eliminating the necessity to create a password or enter your data. Doing so means you’ve got subscribed to a Prime Video channel and the fee shall be added to your account.
Now here is the place the issues start: Prime Video channel subscriptions don’t switch over to a supplier’s personal app or different platforms like Apple TV and Roku. You possibly can solely entry them by Prime Video on Fireplace TV or the Prime Video app on a competing streaming media participant corresponding to Apple TV or Roku.
So, if Paramount+ is a Prime Video channel of yours, you possibly can’t set up the app on one other system and signal into it. You could keep in mind that you subscribed to Paramount+ by Prime Video, and you may solely entry it there.
What Prime Video channels are there?
There are a variety of various Prime Video channels you possibly can subscribe to through Amazon Prime Video. This record contains (however will not be restricted to):
- Britbox
- Starz/Lionsgate Plus
- Showtime
- Hallmark
- FreeVee
- Curiosity Stream
- Paramount+
- Mubi
- HBO Max
- AMC+
Clearly, there are fairly a number of channels that you may subscribe to and the fee can quickly mount up. So that you would possibly need to cancel a number of the Prime Video channels to chop down in your month-to-month subscription prices.
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Streaming service apps defined
So, for example you go to the Paramount+ web site and enter your billing data and join the service that manner, or possibly you instantly put in the Paramount+ app in your Fireplace TV and manually signed up there. If that’s the case, it is not a Prime Video channel. It is an app you’ve got subscribed to, and that is the distinction. You possibly can obtain and use that app on any supported system, no Prime Video is required.
Right here is the place it will get difficult: In case you obtain a streaming service’s supplier app instantly in your Fireplace TV system after which use your Amazon billing data to subscribe to the service, you possibly can solely handle that subscription on Amazon’s web site. You can’t handle it on the supplier’s personal web site. Nonetheless, for subscriptions that do not use your Amazon data, you possibly can handle the subscription on the supplier’s web site.
How one can cancel Prime Video channel subscriptions
Whenever you need to unsubscribe to a Prime Video channel corresponding to Paramount+ or HBO Max, comply with these steps:
- Go to Amazon’s Prime Video Channels page (have to be signed into Amazon).
- Scroll all the way down to Your Channels.
- Discover the Prime Video channel you need to cancel, and click on Cancel Channel subsequent to it.
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How one can cancel streaming service app subscriptions
If you wish to cancel a streaming service that you just subscribed to utilizing your Amazon billing data, comply with these steps:
- Go to Amazon’s App Subscriptions page (have to be signed into Amazon).
- Click on on the Actions drop-down subsequent to the subscription.
- Choose Flip off auto-renewal.
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