How to unsubscribe from YouTube Premium emails
The fastest way to unsubscribe from YouTube Premium emails is through YouTube's notification settings: click your profile picture, open Settings → Notifications, and turn off everything under Email notifications. Because YouTube Premium is a Google product, the email switches live in your YouTube/Google account rather than in any Premium-specific dashboard - and billing receipts come separately from Google Payments, where there is no off switch. If "YouTube Premium unsubscribe" meant canceling the membership itself, that is a different page, covered below.
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Method 1: YouTube email notification settings
- Sign in at youtube.com and click your profile picture in the top-right.
- Choose Settings, then Notifications in the left menu.
- Scroll to Email notifications and switch off the categories you do not want - the general product updates and promotional streams are the noisy ones, and Premium perks and offers ride along with them.
- In the mobile app the same screen is under Settings → Notifications.
Email and push are separate toggles on this screen, so you can go email-silent while keeping push alerts for channels you subscribe to. One honest caveat: YouTube's email categories are coarse, and Google occasionally mails Premium members about plan changes from outside these toggles - those fall under account-level or transactional mail you cannot fully switch off.
Method 2: the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email
YouTube's own help docs confirm the shortcut: clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of any YouTube email turns off that email notification category. Gmail also shows its native one-click Unsubscribe button on these messages - and since Premium mail lands in the same Google inbox it comes from, the mailbox-side controls in how to stop unwanted emails on Gmail pair naturally with this.
Method 3: bulk-unsubscribe across every subscription service
If Premium mail is one strand of a bigger knot, ClearMyInbox lists every promotional sender in your inbox and clears them in one pass. The account-level pattern here is common in music streaming: Apple Music keeps its switches on your Apple Account the way YouTube keeps them on your Google account, while Spotify at least gives you a per-list preference center.
Unsubscribing vs canceling YouTube Premium
To cancel the membership itself, go to youtube.com/paid_memberships, click Manage membership, then Deactivate. If you subscribed on an iPhone or iPad, cancel through Apple's subscription settings instead. You keep Premium until the end of the paid period. Canceling does not change your email toggles - if anything, expect "come back to Premium" offers afterward unless email is switched off too.
Verify it actually stopped
With categories spread across YouTube settings, per-email links, and Google account mail, it is easy to think you are done when one stream is still live. ClearMyInbox re-checks the sender about 30 days after your opt-out and labels it Confirmed stopped or flags it as still emailing, so a straggling category gets caught instead of quietly refilling the inbox.
What stays on (transactional email)
Premium billing receipts from Google Payments, renewal and price-change notices, family-plan membership changes, and Google security alerts are transactional and keep arriving regardless of every toggle above. That is the correct default - the price-increase email is the one Premium subscribers actually need to see.
Frequently asked questions
Does unsubscribing from YouTube Premium emails cancel my membership?▾
No. Email settings and billing are separate systems. Your membership keeps renewing until you cancel it at youtube.com/paid_memberships or, if you signed up on iOS, through Apple subscription settings. Turning off emails only silences the marketing.
Where are the YouTube email notification settings?▾
Sign in to YouTube, click your profile picture, choose Settings, then Notifications. Scroll to the Email notifications section and turn off the categories you do not want, such as general product updates and promotional mail. The same screen exists in the mobile app under Settings and then Notifications.
Why do YouTube emails come from several different senders?▾
Because the emails come from different Google systems. Recommendations and product updates come from YouTube itself, while Premium billing receipts come from Google Payments. Each marketing category has its own switch or unsubscribe link, but payment receipts are transactional and have none.
Will turning off email notifications also stop push notifications?▾
No. Email and push are separate columns in the same Notifications settings screen. You can silence email completely and keep push alerts for subscribed channels, or the reverse.
How do I stop the recommended videos and "top picks" emails?▾
Those fall under the general email notification toggles in Settings, then Notifications, then Email notifications. Alternatively, click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of one of those emails - YouTube confirms that link turns off that email notification category.