How to Cancel Tide Guide

A 8-step walkthrough with real screenshots from the live cancel flow.

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Quick answer

Apple bills Tide Guide Pro, so you cancel it with Apple. In the app, open Settings → Pro → Manage Subscription, then tap Cancel Subscription on Apple's sheet. Without the app, go to Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your iPhone, or sign in at account.apple.com. Pro stays on until the paid period ends. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with nothing to cancel.

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Step-by-step instructions

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Open Settings and tap Pro

Open Tide Guide on an iPhone or iPad signed in to the Apple Account that pays for Pro, and go to Settings. Pro is the first row, and it reads Active while Pro is on. Tap it.

Tide Guide Settings sheet with a Pro row reading Active at the top, followed by Notifications, Appearance, App Icon, General, Apple Watch, Live Activity, Lock Screen Widgets, Home Screen Widgets and About
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Check your plan, then scroll past the upgrades

The Pro sheet opens over Settings with Active, your Plan and its Renewal date, which is when the next charge lands. Below them are Buy Lifetime ("One-time payment.") and Add Family Plan ("Save by sharing."). Both are purchases, not ways to stop paying, so scroll past them.

Tide Guide Pro sheet over Settings showing Active with a green check, Plan Annual and Renewal 23/6/26, then Buy Lifetime One-time payment, Add Family Plan Save by sharing, Email Support Questions or suggestions, and Manage Subscription cut off at the bottom
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Tap Manage Subscription

Manage Subscription is the last row on the Pro sheet, under Email Support, with the line "Easily cancel anytime." Tap it. Apple, not Tide Guide, bills Pro, so this row hands you to Apple's subscription sheet. Tide Guide's help center says the same: you cancel in your App Store account settings.

Tide Guide Pro sheet scrolled down to Buy Lifetime, Add Family Plan, Email Support, and Manage Subscription with the line Easily cancel anytime
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Tap Cancel Subscription on Apple's sheet and confirm

On Apple's sheet for Tide Guide, tap Cancel Subscription (you may need to scroll down) and confirm. Apple's sheet can also list Tide Guide's other plans, and choosing one changes your plan rather than ending it. Once you've canceled, Apple shows an expiration date instead of a renewal date and no Cancel button, which Apple says means the subscription is canceled. Pro stays on until that date.

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If this applies to you

Skip the app: cancel in Settings, on a Mac or on the web

You don't need Tide Guide open. On iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Tide Guide > Cancel Subscription. On a Mac, open the App Store, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then Subscriptions. In any browser, Android included, sign in at account.apple.com and open Subscriptions. On Windows, use the Apple Music or Apple TV app: your name > View My Account > Subscriptions > Manage. If Tide Guide isn't listed, search your email for "receipt from Apple" and sign in with the Apple Account on that receipt.

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Cancel the 7-day free trial a day early

The Pro plans listed first on the US App Store, $3.99 a month and $40 a year, start with a 7-day free trial that rolls into the paid plan on its own. Cancel it the same way as a paid plan, at least 24 hours before the trial ends, which is Apple's cutoff. Deleting the app doesn't cancel the trial: Apple's terms say a subscription renews until you cancel it in your subscription settings. One US App Store reviewer who gave up during the trial did both: "Deleted, canceled my free trial."

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Bought Lifetime? Check that no plan is still renewing

Lifetime ($150 on the US App Store) is a one-time purchase, so it has nothing to cancel, and the same goes for any other one-time Tide Guide purchase. An r/NOAA member who bought before the subscription calls themselves "grandfathered". The catch is buying Lifetime from the Pro sheet while a monthly or annual plan is running. Apple's terms say a subscription renews until you cancel it, so open Subscriptions afterwards and cancel the plan if Tide Guide is still listed with a renewal date. If you were charged for the plan after buying Lifetime, ask Apple for a refund (see the refund question below).

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Family Plan, Ultra or Family Sharing: the purchaser cancels

Add Family Plan and Tide Guide Ultra (which includes Family Sharing) are bought with one Apple Account, and only the account on the receipt can cancel a plan that renews: Apple says you can't cancel a family member's subscription. Turning off Share with Family (Settings > Family > Subscriptions > Manage Subscriptions) stops the sharing, not the billing. After any upgrade, open Subscriptions and check that only one Tide Guide plan shows a renewal date.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Once you cancel on Apple's sheet, the plan doesn't renew, and Pro stays on until the end of the period you've paid for. Apple's developer documentation says a subscription canceled mid-period "remains paid through the end of the same period". Apple's terms let it charge up to 24 hours before a new period starts, so cancel at least a day before the Renewal date on the Pro sheet. Deleting the app doesn't count: a subscription renews until it's canceled in your Apple subscription settings.

Ask Apple, since Apple took the payment; Tide Guide's own terms have no refund policy. Sign in at reportaproblem.apple.com, choose "I'd like to" > "Request a refund", pick a reason and the Tide Guide charge, and submit. Apple says to expect an update within 24 to 48 hours, and the decision is Apple's. In the UK and the EU, Apple's terms give you 14 days from the receipt to withdraw without giving a reason, but for a subscription only the first purchase, not a renewal. Apple handles the refund and the cancellation separately, so cancel the renewal too.

Tide Guide drops to the free version. Free keeps the current tide and conditions, a four-day tide outlook, 24-hour charts and Sun and Moon details. The 10-day outlook, monthly tide tables, longer chart ranges, notifications, Live Activities, custom locations and the nearest-station and favorite-station modes are Pro features. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets and watch complications show a lock once Pro isn't active. Tide Guide's help center doesn't say what happens to your saved stations.

No. Lifetime is a one-time purchase ($150 on the US App Store) and doesn't renew. Just make sure a monthly or annual plan isn't also running: open Settings > your name > Subscriptions, and if Tide Guide is listed with a renewal date, cancel it there. If Pro doesn't show on a new iPhone or iPad, open Tide Guide and tap Settings > Support > Restore Purchase while signed in to the Apple Account that bought it. Tide Guide says restoring won't charge you again.

Yes, the same way as a paid plan: Manage Subscription on the Pro sheet, or Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Apple says to cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, so note the day you started and cancel by day six. If you miss it, the trial becomes the paid plan ($3.99 a month or $40 a year for the US plans listed first), and getting that money back means a refund request to Apple.

Yes. Buy Pro again in the app, or tap Tide Guide under your expired subscriptions in Settings > your name > Subscriptions and tap Renew. The price may not match what you paid before: in October 2026 the US App Store listed Pro at $3.99 and $4.99 a month and at $19.99, $29.99 and $40.00 a year, all at once, and Tide Guide says plans and prices "may vary by storefront".
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