How to cancel peacock free account?

Canceling your Peacock TV subscription is as simple as changing from a premium plan to NBC’s free option. But if you want to delete your account entirely, you’re going to have to fill out a form. Here’s everything you need to know.

Unlike streaming platforms such as Disney+, Hulu, and Netflix that kick you out of the service when you unsubscribe, Peacock doesn’t immediately offer you a way to leave the free plan. After a bit of digging, we found that you have to request your data be removed from NBCUniversal’s servers.

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Starting several pages inside of Peacock’s Help Center, you will find a guide that details the request process for the deletion of personal information from NBCUniversal. Doing so will also delete your Peacock profile. To proceed, you need to view the company’s Privacy Page.

Peacock now wants you to read a bunch of legal jargon that relates to your rights to your digital information. Scroll down and click on the deletion request link (if you’re a U.S. resident) or email your request to privacy@nbcuni.com if you’re outside of the country.

Finally, you will be taken to the NBCUniversal Individual Rights Request Portal. Here, you can request your Peacock account be deleted or ask the company to provide any of your personal information that it has on file.

Choose the “Delete My Information” button, select “Peacock” from the “Select Applicable Brand(s)” drop-down box, enter your name, email address, and the state you reside in, prove that you’re not a robot, and then click the “Submit” button.

Neither Peacock nor NBCUniversal state how long it will take for a response or your account to be deleted. You should hopefully receive confirmation of deletion within several weeks to a month.

• Log in to your account.
• Go to Plans & Payments.
• Select Change or Cancel Plan.
• Select Cancel Plan.
• Once confirmed, you will see a confirmation message on screen and receive a confirmation email, which may take a few hours.

NBC’s streaming service Peacock launched in early 2020 and quickly proved to be a massive success. With 28 million subscribers and an extensive content variety, it’s one of the biggest competitors in the streaming market.

Still, if you want to end your subscription for whatever reason or just downgrade from a premium to a free plan, we’ll explain in this article how to cancel Peacock on desktop and mobile and how to switch to a higher or lower tier.

The Peacock streaming service is available across the US and several other countries – the UK, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. You can try Peacock for free if you live in any of these countries. Otherwise, you’ll need to use a VPN to access it.

The service has three tiers with different pricing and features:

One interesting thing about Peacock is that canceling payments on any Premium plan doesn’t disable your account afterward. Instead, you’ll be downgraded to the free, limited plan.

Here’s how to manage your subscription and cancel payments:

You’ll receive an email confirmation that your payments have been canceled. The email will include the date when your premium plan will end. Keep in mind that this doesn’t erase your account but pauses payments. If you change your mind, you can restart your premium subscription using this same method.

Like most other popular streaming services, Peacock is also available on mobile. The native mobile apps are available on Android and iOS, so in this section, we’ll cover the cancellation process for both platforms.

It’s very easy to upgrade or downgrade your subscription via the iOS app on your iPhone or iPad. Here’s how to do it in a few simple steps – although, note that you can cancel Peacock in this way only if you initially subscribed via its iOS app:

Aside from using your phone’s browser to manage your subscriptions, there’s also a native Peacock app for Android. But we won’t be using the app to cancel the subscription. Instead, we’ll use Google Play:

Just like with iOS, the subscription management on Android only works if you subscribed through the mobile app. If you used the website to create your account on Peacock, then you’ll have to use the website, as explained above, to cancel payments and manage your subscription.

The good news is that you can finally cancel your Peacock subscription outright. Formerly, back when free Peacock subscriptions were a thing, the way to stop paying for Peacock mostly revolves around plucking the Premium Peacock feather out of your account. Then, you still had a Peacock account — just one that isn't taking between $4.99 and $9.99 (or even less if you used a Peacock TV promo code) from you each month.

Now? Not so much.

Personally, I'm stuck with Peacock. It's the home of WWE live streams in the U.S., so I'll have to finally stop watching those before I can get away from Peacock. The streaming service also has popular exclusives like The Office and Harry Potter movies.

Here's how to downgrade your Peacock subscription to a free account.

1. Log into PeacockTV.com and click your profile icon in the top right corner.

2. Select the Account option, which is also in the top right corner.

3. You'll (probably) need to sign into Peacock to confirm your right to access your account.

4. Next to your current Peacock plan, click "Change or Cancel Plan."

5. Click Cancel plan. If you're grandfathered into Peacock Free, your window may look different.

6. Select "Cotintue" to confirm.

7. Under the images of all the stuff that Peacock already tried to get you to watch, select "Cancel Plan." Never give into the 'begging' phase of account cancelation.

Congratulations, you've canceled Peacock!