How-to · 5 min read
How to Cancel a DramaBox Subscription
You cannot cancel DramaBox inside the DramaBox app, which is why this is harder than it should be. The subscription lives with Apple or Google, and that is where you have to end it.
Published 19 August 2026
The short answer
On an iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, tap DramaBox, then tap Cancel Subscription. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, tap Payments & subscriptions, tap Subscriptions, select DramaBox and tap Cancel subscription. It takes about a minute either way.
Why there is no cancel button in the app
People search for this several thousand times a month, and it is not because the steps are complicated. It is because they are in the wrong place. If you subscribed through the App Store or Google Play, DramaBox never held your subscription — Apple or Google did, and they take the payment, issue the receipt and own the cancel button.
So you can search DramaBox’s own settings for as long as you like and find nothing to cancel. Nothing is hidden; the control was never there to begin with. Every app sold through the stores works this way.
The steps in full
On an iPhone or iPad
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap your name at the top of the screen.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Tap DramaBox.
- Tap Cancel Subscription. You may need to scroll down to find it.
If there is no Cancel button, and instead you see an expiry message in red text, the subscription is already cancelled and will simply run out on the date shown.
On Android
- Open the Google Play app.
- Tap your profile icon in the top right.
- Tap Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.
- Select DramaBox.
- Tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts.
Google keeps your access running for the time you have already paid for, so cancelling on day one of a billing period does not cut you off on day one.
If you subscribed on DramaBox’s website
A subscription bought directly on the web with a card or PayPal never touches either app store, so neither store can cancel it. Sign in to your account on their site and cancel there, or contact their support and ask them to stop the renewal. Keep the reply.
Confirm it actually worked
Do not skip this. Go back to the same subscriptions screen. A cancelled subscription shows an expiry date rather than a renewal date — wording along the lines of “expires on” instead of “renews on”. If it still says it renews, the cancellation did not go through and you should repeat it.
Cancelled, but still being charged
This is the most common follow-up, and it almost always has the same cause: the subscription is not where you are looking for it. Work through these in order.
- You subscribed on a different platform. If you first subscribed on an iPhone and later installed DramaBox on Android, the charge still lives in Apple’s system. Cancelling in Google Play does nothing to it, and vice versa.
- You are signed in to a different account. A second Apple Account or Google account — a work one, an old one, a family member’s — holds the subscription. The charge follows the account that bought it, not the one you are using now.
- You subscribed on the web. If you paid through DramaBox’s own website with a card or PayPal, neither app store has any record of it. Cancel from your account page on their site, or contact their support directly.
- You deleted the app and assumed that cancelled it. It does not. Deleting an app removes the app; the subscription keeps billing until it is cancelled at the store.
To find a mystery charge, search your email for the app name — both stores email a receipt for every renewal, and the receipt names the account it was billed to.
Getting a refund for a charge you did not mean to make
Cancelling stops the next payment. It does not return the last one. Refunds are handled by the store, not by the app, and both treat them as discretionary rather than guaranteed:
- Apple: go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, find the charge and choose Request a refund.
- Google: request it from your Google Play order history. Google states that past subscription charges generally cannot be refunded, with exceptions set out in its refund policy.
An accidental renewal you report quickly, and a charge on a subscription you genuinely never used, are the two cases most likely to succeed. Say plainly which one applies.
Before you go: check what you were paying
Worth two minutes while you are in there. DramaBox is free to download, and its App Store listing shows membership tiers at $5.99, $17.99 and $19.99, alongside one-off “special offer” purchases at $4.99, $9.99 and $19.99 (checked 19 August 2026). Which tier you were on, and how often it renewed, is on the subscription screen you just used.
We wrote more about that in Is DramaBox free?, and about the category’s pricing generally in our comparison of the major apps. Leaving ReelShort too? Same guide for ReelShort.