Key Takeaways
- There are numerous streaming services available, and Amazon Prime Video also offers additional subscription channels such as Paramount+ and Max.
- Cancelling Prime Video channels and streaming service apps involves a different process for each channel and app.
- If you signed up directly through a streaming service, you’ll need to cancel through that service’s website.
There are so many streaming services out there these days it’s hard to keep track. Gone are the days when everything was online. Netflix ; the current Many options There are also services such as Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+, and MGM+, as well as services that do not have the “+” in the title, such as Max and Hulu. Chick-fil-A Join the movement: There’s nothing worse than someone telling you about a great show they just watched, only to find out it’s on a service you don’t use.
Amazon Prime Video The streaming service is packed with great content, but it also caters to people who want to watch content from elsewhere. Prime Video lets you sign up for additional subscription channels from big players like: Paramount+ And with Max, you can watch all that content without having to sign up for another streaming service.
Some services, such as Apple TV, do not have Prime Video channels. Amazon Fire TV By installing the appropriate app, you can also sign up using your Amazon payment information, so you don’t have to go through the hassle of adding a new payment method to a new streaming app.
The problem is, with so many great Prime Video channels and apps available now, it can be tempting to subscribe to too many, especially when many of them offer free trials. Luckily, canceling your Amazon Prime Video channel or app subscription is easy, once you know how. Here’s how it works:
Prime Video Channels and Streaming Service Apps
Before you cancel, you need to know which is which.
Paramount+
First, check if the service you want to cancel is subscribed to directly through Amazon Prime Video Channels. Fire TV Or the Amazon Prime Video app. If not, is it a streaming service that you subscribed to through the provider’s app on your Fire TV? We’d also like to know if you used your Amazon billing information to sign up.
That’s because the way you cancel Prime Video Channels is different than the way you cancel a streaming service app that you signed up for using your Amazon billing information. If you signed up for a streaming service in a different way, you’ll need to cancel the service directly through that service’s app or website.
What are Amazon Prime Video Channels?
Sign up for additional content directly through Prime Video
When you become an Amazon Prime member, Wide range of benefits These include free shipping, Amazon Photos cloud storage, access to Amazon Music, free e-books and magazines with Prime Reading, and access to special discounts during events like Amazon Prime Day.
One of the biggest perks is free access to the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, which includes a vast catalog of TV shows, movies, and Amazon Prime exclusives. The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power Wheel of Time, The Boys, Reacher, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
While Prime Video has a lot to offer for free, you may want to watch a show or movie that’s available on another streaming service. If you’re a Prime member and have a Fire TV or smart TV with the Prime Video app, you can also search for shows like Star Trek Discovery or Yellowstone to see the option to watch them on Paramount+ directly within the Prime Video app.
With Amazon, you can sign up with just a few clicks. It’s all done through your Amazon account, so you don’t need to create a password or enter any information. Once you sign up, you’re subscribing to Prime Video Channels and the fee is added to your account.
Here’s where the problem begins: your Prime Video Channels subscription doesn’t transfer over to the provider’s own app or to other platforms like Apple TV or Roku. It’s only accessible through Prime Video on Fire TV, the Prime Video app on your laptop or mobile, or devices like Apple TV or Roku.
This means that if Paramount+ is your Prime Video channel, you cannot install the Paramount+ app on another device and sign in. You can only access Paramount+ through Prime Video.
What channels are available on Prime Video?
Amazon offers a wide selection of major channels
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Amazon Prime Video allows you to subscribe to a variety of Prime Video channels, the list includes (but is not limited to):
- Paramount+
- Max
- MGM+
- BritBox
- Discovery+
- Stars
- AMC Plus
- Cinemax
- MLB.TV
- NBA League Pass
- WNBA League Pass
- Crunchyroll
- High Dive
- Retro Crush
- Acorn TV
- PBS Masterpiece
- All Black
- Bet+
- PBS Documentary
- A treasure trove of history
- Movie
- Lifetime Movie Club
- Movie Sphere
- AMC Plus
- Horror
- Sundance Now
There are many more channels you can subscribe to than those listed above, and costs can add up quickly if you’re not careful. You may want to cancel some of your Prime Video channels to reduce your monthly subscription costs.
Amazon Streaming Service App Description
The app is not the same as Prime Video Channels
Subscribe to channels like Paramount+ That’s not the only way to access the streaming service. You can go to the Paramount+ website, enter your billing information and sign up for the service that way, or you can install the Paramount+ app directly on your Fire TV and sign up. If you do, you won’t have access to the Paramount+ Prime Video channel; that’s the app you subscribe to, and that’s the difference. You can download and use that app on any supported device, and it doesn’t require Prime Video.
Download the streaming service provider app directly to your device.
Fire TV Devices
Then, once you subscribe to the service using your Amazon billing information, you can manage your subscription exclusively through Amazon’s website.
Here’s the problem: if you download a streaming service provider’s app directly onto your device, Fire TV Devices If you then subscribe to a service using your Amazon billing information, you can only manage that subscription on Amazon’s website, not on the provider’s own website, except for subscriptions that do not use Amazon information, where you can manage your subscription on the provider’s website or app.
How to Cancel a Prime Video Channels Subscription
You can cancel your subscription through the Prime Video website.
If you want to unsubscribe from Prime Video channels like Paramount+ or Max, follow these steps:
- Sign in to your Amazon account and click Prime Video It’s in the menu bar.
- In the banner at the top of the Prime Video page, Subscription.
- click management button.
- under Your subscriptionFind the channel you want to cancel and click on it Unsubscribe.
- choice Turn off automatic updatesThis will stop any future payments, but you will still have access to the channel until your next subscription payment date.
- You can also go directly to Amazon’s Prime Video Channels page and follow steps 4 and 5 above.
How to cancel a streaming service app subscription
If you signed up with your Amazon payment information, you’ll need to cancel through Amazon.
Amazon
If you want to cancel a streaming service that you subscribed to using your Amazon billing information, follow these steps:
- Go to Amazon’s App Subscriptions page and sign in to your Amazon account if you’re not already signed in.
- Next to your subscription,[アクション]Click the dropdown.
- choice Turn off automatic updates.
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon’s streaming service has a huge selection of shows and movies, including Amazon original content that you can’t find anywhere else.
