Cancel TikTok Premium 2026: Is Ad-Free TikTok Worth $4.99/Month?

How to Cancel TikTok Premium

If You Subscribed via iPhone

1. Open Settings on your iPhone
2. Tap your Apple ID at the top
3. Tap Subscriptions
4. Find TikTok and tap it
5. Tap Cancel Subscription

If You Subscribed via Android

1. Open Google Play Store
2. Tap your profile icon
3. Tap Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions
4. Find TikTok
5. Tap Cancel subscription

In the TikTok App

1. Open TikTok → tap Profile
2. Tap the menu (three lines, top right)
3. Tap Settings and Privacy
4. Tap Manage account → Subscriptions
5. Cancel from there (may redirect to app store)

What TikTok Premium Actually Gives You

• Ad-free viewing: Removes in-feed ads and sponsored content
• That's basically it. No exclusive content, no download features, no creator tools
• You still see branded content from creators (paid partnerships)
• You still see TikTok Shop product placements

Why Most People Should Cancel

• Ads are your only speed bump. The algorithm already knows you perfectly. Removing ads means removing the only thing that might snap you out of a scroll spiral
• $60/year for a free app. TikTok is free. You're paying to make a free app slightly smoother
• You can just swipe past ads. TikTok ads are short and swipeable. Unlike YouTube pre-roll, they take 0.5 seconds to skip
• Screen Time is the real issue. If you're spending enough time on TikTok that ads bother you, the solution might be less TikTok, not smoother TikTok

The Screen Time Audit

Before canceling, check your actual TikTok usage:

• iPhone: Settings → Screen Time → See All Activity → TikTok
• Android: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → Dashboard → TikTok
• TikTok: Profile → Menu → Digital Wellbeing → Screen Time

The average TikTok user spends 95 minutes/day on the app. At $4.99/month, that's roughly $0.002 per minute of ad-free scrolling. You could also set a daily time limit for free and solve both the ad problem and the time problem.