Finding subscriptions you forgot you had
Most people are paying for at least one thing they no longer use. They are listed in three places.
What's usually going on
Subscriptions get started on a phone, through a website, or as a free trial that quietly became a paid one. Deleting the app does not cancel them. Each has to be canceled where it was started.
Worth trying first
Check your Apple subscriptions.
On an iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Everything billed through Apple is listed there, with a cancel button.
Check your Google subscriptions.
On Android, open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions. On any device, the same list is at play.google.com.
Read one month of statements.
Go through a recent card and bank statement and mark anything that repeats. This catches the ones started on a website, which the phone lists never show.
Cancel at the source.
Sign in to the service's own website and cancel there. Deleting the app or removing your card does not reliably stop the billing.
Keep the confirmation.
Save the cancellation email. If the charge appears again, it is what your card company will ask for.
When to hand it over
If you can't tell what a charge is for, can't get into the account that's being billed, or would like every device, account, and subscription in the household listed in one place.
Your own technologist, on call.
Tell us a little about your setup. We'll take it from there.