I've been a UKposts premium member for a few years and at first it was just to get rid of ads, but UKposts Music made it all worth it in my opinion.

I get so much more content from UKposts Premium. More than 15x what I get from Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ combined. I don't mind creators running their own ad rolls, because it helps them make a living delivering the content I like. I can also skip ads with a few screen taps if I want. The algorithm ads are terrible, and just getting those out of the way is worth my sub.

Thank you, Cameron! I've been OVER PAYING for almost 2 years and I am grateful for your teaching me how to stop paying the Apple tax! I use UKposts daily for meditations and appreciate you being here, especially when costs everywhere are rising.

Cameron, thank you so much for the excellent tip. I too was paying 29.99 a month via Apple. I did as you suggested and I'm saving $7.00 per month, $84 per year! I'm retired and this helps.

I've been on UKposts premium since launch so I'm grandfathered in at $8.99 since I continued it from Google music. Been one of the services I will never end. I use the background play for listening to things in the car when I run errands or I can listen to audio on phone without killing my screen. I am always amazed whenever I see people dealing with ads on UKposts, I totally forget often that others have ads on their services.

I'm so glad I saw this video! I was overpaying for 2 years! I had 1480 hours of ad-free video watching and 240 hours of background play...damn. You earned a like, sub, and notification bell my friend!

I've had the UKposts Premium account since 2014 when I decided to leave Pandora behind. I uploaded about 5K songs onto UKposts Music from my home computer and then found an infinite amount of music related to my library in the years since then. Being able to build specific endless playlists and stream podcasts has also been great. It's probably the best thing I spend money on. Probably over 10,000 hours of ad-free videos in the past decade has been worth every penny.

I've always hated ads but I also love being able to download and play on my own terms and especially at night when I don't want the Wi-Fi on. That makes it worth it to me although I do miss when they actually had premium content which seems to be non-existent now.

Thank you Cameron. I'd been paying that extra $4/month for a long time now. I just didn't know about the 'Apple Tax.' You definitely earned a like, subscribe, comment and share from me.

Yeah, the ads have been insane. Like even if I wanted to skip to another part, I immediately get hit by ads. I feel like I spend more time watching the ads than actually getting to actually consume the content. I know they're just doing this because they want to try to force people to subscribe rather than having UKposts be a free platform. But when I checked out how expensive it is, my jaw dropped because it's considerably more than most streaming services for a single user. Thank you so putting out this video. I don't know yet if I'm going to pay the $15 or just stomach the constant ads or not

Oh my gosh! I stumbled across this video while researching something else about my subscription. I always thought it was strange that my UKposts Premium was billed through Apple, but got used to it. I've been a Premium member nearly four years now! I really appreciate this video and will be changing my billing immediately.

I am so glad UKposts promoted this to my feed! I just got premium a couple of months ago, but Apple now charges $18.99 per month and that really seemed like too much even though I have taken to watching more UKposts content than television. Thank you so much for this information.

Super helpful! I subscribed to UKposts premium via my iPhone and was wondering why the billing was routing through Apple. I was also wondering if I was somehow paying too much and you’ve just answered all my questions. Thanks Cameron.

Another neat trick is to subscribe to family membership and share the cost with a family member or a friend who lives in the same country, instead of paying for separate memberships 🙂

Thanks Cameron, FYI. Google won't honor what you already paid Apple. I cancelled through Apple on my iPhone. When pulling up my account on my PC it said it expires in 15 days (Oct 10th) as expected. Good I thought, Google knows that so I can sign-up now and I won't lose the 15 days I already paid for. No such luck, after providing my credit card and submitting - my CC was immediately charged and Google said it will renew in 30 days (Oct 26).

Thanks for your clear instructions! My $119.00/year UKposts premium subscription expires the end of October 2023. Do I still need to cancel this before signing up again? If I cancel my subscription at the first part of October, can I immediately subscribe using your method for another year? Or do I need to wait till November to subscribe? I appreciate your clear

I'm huge fan of premium! I get a lot of value out of UKposts Music with the amount of driving I've been doing for work, and the ad-free environment and background play are certainly big pluses!

That is simply awesome 👏 I am living in Saudi Arabia and I was paying 32.99 Saudi Riyal per month (subscribed through iPhone) and now because of you (all steps explained so easily) I subscribed again from windows and it is costing me 23.99 Saudi riyal per month. Great job mate 👍 thanks a lot 😊

I quit my premium because they suspended me from commenting for a day over a comment I made. I'm not paying for them to hassle me. I'm also spending less time on YT as well.

I think creators get a bigger cut from premium views as well. As for the complaints about creator sponsor ads, fair enough. But it is the main way they make money. I'm sure most creators would rather not have them. Adsense doesn't pay very well at all, and at least you can skip the creators ads at will with no timer delay, etc. And honestly some of the creator ads can be legitimately entertaining.

been using UKposts Premium from back in the days when it was named UKposts Red -- my sentiments are similar to yours - but I already had a subscription not using Apple's App Store so only paid about $10 per month. Recently upgraded to family so my wife could use it also as she is now watching a lot more UKposts than she had in past years.

I’ve been a premium subscriber since the beginning of the pandemic. Suddenly I’m getting ads on my iPad, not my iPhone. Thank you for this great information. Maybe making this switch will end this frustration and save me money. Great video

What about UKposts's personal library and playlists? What happens to those?

Just received a notice this morning saying my family plan membership is increasing from $23/mo to $30/mo. Been a member since Nov 1, 2020. I did not realize I’ve been paying this goddamn sorry ass apple tax for two years now. Going through the steps to cancel my membership and then renewing on a PC device. Huge thanks for waking me up to this!

Thanks! I would never have known without your video. I followed the steps and feel it's only fair to share back with you for your great help!

Thanks for the info. 😀 If I transfer / delete my apple subscription and sign up through YT for direct account, do I lose all my history and downloads etc.??

I had been a Premium subscriber for more than 2 years through Apple. Last July (2023), I received an email from Apple notifying me of a price increase for the Premium service. The next day, UKposts also sent me an email about the upcoming increase while letting me know how much I would save by subscribing directly to them. Which I did immediately.

I’ve used the family plan of Premium for years and love it and can’t imagine watching any other way! When I saw my friends YT with ads it took me out of the experience. It’s for sure worth it! Also, with the Family Plan you can invite up to 5 people and share the cost if you want.

I’m following your advice, but there are a couple things. First, on iPad the interface is a little different, I actually really like to see the usage stats you’re talking about, but I wasn’t able to find them. The other thing worth noting is that it doesn’t seem like the cancellation takes affect right away. In other words, it shows up in the Apple store, but it doesn’t show up in the app. And then, on desktop, at least within the first five minutes, the change doesn’t show up there. Not sure how long it will take before it shows up so that I can make the change. Update: I had to wait until the email went out about 2 hours later that confirmed my membership was canceled, and then I was able to renew at the lower price. Thanks!

Thank you for this! I’m also curious about having different channels. If I have an old channel and a current channel on the same account, do they both benefit from the premium? Sometimes premium works on my iPhone & smart tv, but when I watch on my computer there are still ads. Hmmmm...

I was paying $14.99 AUD but I moved to Thailand I canceled my premium membership it ended today and opened the membership here in Thailand 159 baht or $7.06 AUD. Saved $7.93. just because they charge a different rater here. I wonder if this would work a VPN. I've been subscribed since very early 2021 best thing I love the music in the background feature but you actually can do it we're just normal UKposts by opening UKposts not on the app but in your phone web browser then clicking view the website as desktop version and then you can minimize the website and it will put it into the notification menu on your phone this is for Android I'm not sure if it work on iPhone.

I saved $5/mo for 2 full years on my UKposts Premium subscription by qualifying as a student ($6.99/mo) before I finally had to start paying $11.99/mo because I was no longer eligible for the student discount. I’m surprised you didn’t mention this perk for students of accredited universities. Now, I’m at 9,290 watched hrs in 3 years of paid membership.

I’ve been subscribed since it was available. I’m paying $14.99 for the family plan. But I got an email today saying it was increasing to $22.99 and I’m considering cancelling it

Like when doing it through the iPhone subscriptions, can one cancel month to month so that it expires without trying to auto-renew your membership? I love YT premium, but see the price is now NINETEEN dollars a month so I might have to use this method. Thanks!

Ok, so I have over 3,000 hours in 18 months, but I use it for background noise and to sleep to. Thank you so much for this hack. I finally got around to changing my sub when it went to $18.99 on the iPhone. It's $13.99 still for me via the web so that's a big win in my book. Thanks for the step by step on this. It was easy to do - only warning is to wait around 15-20 minutes between cancelling on the iPhone and signing up on the web as it takes a little time for the cancellation to flow through.

One important thing to remember about UKposts premium directly supports the creators you like and watch by automatically giving every video you watch the full ad money they would get normally even if you don't watch the whole video. So it does support the creators more!

I watch UKposts more than any other streaming service. By alot. No ads is important and so is the closed viewing/audio experience as well as the download feature. But supporting the platform I love and making my view worth more to my favorite creators makes it a no brained. Don’t tell UKposts but I would pay double if I had to.

Does UKposts offer annual individual or family plans at a cheaper price? If so, what is the process to do so?

Cameron - hey I had a student discount for the last 2 years for you tube - suddenly they are making it super hard to re-subscribe as a student … Any thoughts on this ?

I was scratching my head why I seemed to be paying more for Premium than I thought I should. Unbelievable that Apple is that stinking greedy. I love their products but this makes me question my allegiance. I've cancelled my Premium and will renew via Chrome using a non-Apple card when the time comes. Thanks for this video!

I'm a grandfathered Google Music introductory price subscriber for $10.81 (which includes sales tax), which started with just Play Music, then they added UKposts Red at no extra cost, then UKposts Premium, and then Google Play Music -> UKposts Music. It has gone up a little from the original $7.99 (with no sales tax), but not too bad.

I used safari to watch UKposts and with safari extensions I have no adds and I can play videos in de background That I not able to download Videos offline doesn’t bother me at all

I really appreciate this. Last month I canceled my premium subscription because I seldom listened to UKposts music and thought I was paying too much. I just signed back up using your advice. Thank you!

Thanks so much. It took a little jiggling but I got the new subscription options to show up. I opted for the annual membership. Your video is well presented. I was a bit anxious about loosing the history and other details but it all worked seamlessly. Subscribed and liked.

2570 hours for me. I got Premium directly from UKposts as soon as it came out. Couldn’t live without it. Got family too so we all split the costs

I’ve been a member since Feb 21,2022 and I have 1,440hrs of ad free videos, 520hrs of background play, 660hrs of UKposts music, and 35 videos watched offline. I’ve unfortunately been hit with the Apple tax for close to 2 years now and hopefully can save a little bit going forward. Edit- I’m a student now also and see the option for an even bigger reduction of what I was paying. Kicking myself for not looking into this further.

UPDATE: I normally use Firefox for web browsing, so when I had the aforementioned trouble subscribing to UKposts Premium directly, I decided to try it in Safari. I logged out of my UKposts account and logged back in via Safari, and the Premium option for $11.99 (+ tax) came up, and I was able to subscribe again successfully with UKposts Premium DIRECTLY. Thanks for the money saving tip!

I was also subscribed through Apple since 2020 😮 Had no idea there was a difference - Thanks man, this saves people a lot of money!

Premium isnt the only subscription I have that I really like, no just for no ads, but for UKposts music. Plus UKposts has a great library of free movies. Totally worth the price in my opinion.

Hi Cameron , thanks for this I signed up for UKposts premium and got a month's free trial after watching your video. No ads yipee!😊

Will I lose all of my downloads by doing this cost saving switch?

Great video. I have a question though. I've had a YT Premium subscription for three years through Apple (using my Apple email as my account name), so if I switch to bypassing Apple, can I basically transfer my existing account, or would I have to cancel my current account through Apple and create a brand new account through Google? I've had this happen before where Google won't accept a login that's not a gmail account, but I really don't want to lose three years worth of all my subscriptions, saved videos, playlists, etc and have to start from scratch.

Great information, Cameron. I agree with your statement about hating subscriptions, but this one (youTube Premium) is worth it.

If they lower it down to $4.99 per month I'd subscribe. Way too expensive in my opinion.

What about higher resolution does the premium UKposts provide higher resolution on videos?

Is there a way to pay annually? I have been searching everywhere and can't find it!

Thank you for this video. I had managed to cancel my membership but for some reason when I was trying to re-sign up without going through the App Store it just kept directing me to the App Store. With your instructions, I was able to re-subscribe without the App Tax

Actually even with UKposts Premium you will be exposed to ads. Many UKposts content creators are now embedding ad's in their videos. The ad's can be skipped of course, but it is still a pain. I feel these embedded ad's should not be allowed. If I pay for premium, I do not want to see ANY ads.

First, thank you so much for making this video and sharing your knowledge. I know this video is a year old and UKposts has increased their price since April 2023. Your method still works and knocks off $2 off the individual plan, but for Family Plan it is still locked at $22.99 (use to be $14.99 for me before April 2023, as I was grandfathered in from the original promotional offering).

Should I go annual or monthly?

I've had a UKposts premium membership since back when it included Google Play Music. It is totally worth it. It makes UKposts more enjoyable to watch without ads. The only annoying thing is when content creators sponsor products during their video. I usually just hit fast forward.

I got premium and forget that ads exist

I have been a YT Premium member since July 2020 (36 months) & I have watched >7,170 hours of ad-free so for 20 months you have been doing very well Cameron.

I have a regular UKposts account can I still get the reduced price or do I have to sign out first

i didn't see a mention BUT - a family plan is even more worth the price. the family account gives you up to 6 users, all with the full benefits. prices are going up to 22.99 for the family plan now, but even at that price, having family plan ans sharing the cost makes it way cheaper :)

I agree. Subscribing to premium is a must if you care about watching youtube regularly. Like with so many things they just have no sense of what is reasonable with ads. "More is better" is not always true and in many cases it is not. No, jamming as many ads as you can down people's throat is not better than if you didn't. Marketers are stupid anyway. Offending people is not the way to gain their positive approval of you.

Thanks for posting this video. I was being charged by Apple for a Family plan for $22.99/month. I don't know how that happened, but I've been over paying, even more than most since 2022. I had to cancel my membership through my laptop and through the iPhone UKposts app. When I go to the "Purchases & Memberships" section, and under the "Offers from UKposts", I only see a Family Plan or UKposts TV as offers for me. I don't see an individual plan offered outside of Apple. The individual plan offered by Apple is $18.99/month, billed through Apple. Do you possibly know why I'm not able to see any offers for individual plans through UKposts? Thanks for your thoughts on this 🙂

I live across the pond in the UK and have had UKposts premium for a long time. I pay £20 a month. I have a direct debit set up through my bank and as far as I am aware I don't pay apple anything. I don't have an I Phone or anything apple related. I watch UKposts a lot so that £20 is worth every penny. We can have 5 devices on the plan so it's on our TV, phones and tablets. AMAZING ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Not watched your channel before but will certainly watch in future 🔮

I had now idea I was overpaying until my son told me he was only paying $11.99 per month. I then found your video and made the subscription change! Thank you!

You’re missing the perks here. I’m a day 1 UKposts premium subscriber through the App Store. I pay 6 USD for UKposts premium & music (family). Since I subbed through Apple and never cancelled my subscription, prices NEVER rise. I’m fully protected from price hikes, so I’d say if you have the on-launch UKposts premium price, do not change your payment method or else you WILL pay more.

Important question: If you do this, can you still use the same official UKposts app from the Apple App Store to access UKposts on my iPhone? Because if I have to then use a browser window on my iPhone for UKposts it's not worth it.

Will this work for on a smart tv? I've searched and all I see pertains to phones and computers. Thanks!

Have been a Premium member for twelve months and I really love it. I connect to UKposts Music every night to fall asleep to so that's a great bonus for me. Also, being able to play UKposts videos even when the phone is locked and in my pocket is fantastic. Not an iPhone user so the Apple Tax is not a problem I have to worry about.

I got a 3 month trial few months back and I noticed depending on where I would be signing up for premium it was about $1-2 difference. One place was on the phone app and I can't remember where the other was, maybe on a browser or the App Store under subscriptions. I found that pretty odd. What you're talking bout is so much more of a discount though. $11.99 is definitely a better price. Having said that, the only part of premium I care about is no ads. I hate ads. I just don't $11.99 a month hate them. Think the most I'd pay for that would be like $5 but even then I'd prolly not go for it. Ads are terrible. I had a 15 unskippable one couple months back. I had one shippable after 15 seconds but the AD ITSELF was literally over 3 hours!! Which is stupid. If I'm watching while doing dishes I don't want to have to stop and dry my hands off every few mins to skip a 3 hour long ridiculous ad. Last night had an hour long one show up.

Do downloaded videos still play if you barely have 3G? (2 bars average) I’m wayyy in the country. Had a ‘Hub’ for increased cell service but it ended up costing $300 a month.

Thank you very much. You are now saving me a lot of money. I had no idea about the Apple tax on UKposts premium. Again thank you and I have now subscribed to your UKposts channel and look forward to viewing your future content. Cheers from Perth, Australia 👍👍👍👍

I've used UKposts Premium since September of 2018*, and I can't see myself ever going back. I haven't tried out UKposts Music (I know, I probably should), but the ad-free experience is _so freakin' nice,_ man! I know there are adblockers, and I did use one on my PC before I turned it off on UKposts to support the channels I were watching, but it's so nice to seamlessly get all ads removed no matter where you choose to watch UKposts (minus the bug where vids on the PS4 still had ads on them). I also always missed the feature that was on the OG iOS UKposts app where the video would still keep playing when you minimised the app, so that was a much welcome return, and I love being able to lock my phone or quickly check another app without the video pausing! It's also nice to be able to remove ads while also supporting the UKpostsrs you watch, and I've downloaded all of Cinemassacre's _Monster Madness_ vids and a few more to watch at my friend's cabin (which I have done). *I'm at 4960 hours, 80 in the background. Dunno if that's bad or not, but it could've been higher I guess. Feel like I use UKposts every day, but I suppose there has been some periods of downtime.

Thanks for sharing your opinions on Premium!

I'd like premium in order to stop commercials (before videos can begin) but I want to pay by the year not by the month as I don't like anything short term. I've been to youtube help pages but as usual with everything today they are too complicated and convoluted and cannot see anywhere I can chat with a human as I'm not good with anything technical and so I need help making sure I do everything I need to do. Can we pay per year or are we stuck with paying per month? If its only each month then I wont bother. Also I have a computer and I watch youtube on it but I also have a tv in the room and youtube comes to it via wi-fi (the computer is via wired) does this matter? Do I pay for both or do I pay for one that works for both? I live in the United Kingdom so does that create a problem such as tax? Anyone?!

I am a senior...not super tech savvy. So, I have youtube premium. if I cancel that, can I listen to any music on youtube? Or if I do, it will be with a ton of ads?

I feel like UKposts premium is only really worth it if you watch UKposts on your smart TV. And also the screen-off playing videos. That's it. If I was able to find a way to do those two things without paying for premium I wouldn't. I don't mind creators putting baked in ads, I can just skip them, and many creators also do it creatively (internet historian) so it makes it both hilarious and enjoyable to watch in addition to serving its purpose of being an ad. It also actually makes me more comfortable with whatever is being advertised so if more UKpostsrs did that it would love that. UKposts music is in my personal opinion garbage. I love my audio quality and Spotify is much better for that. (Tidal is better but I disagree with their business) if I want to really support a creator or artist I buy the album/donate directly. (Last note but personal preference for everyone is get rid of your Apple device. They are all baked together to trap you into a seemingly impossible to get out of "ecosystem" and makes you "think different"..... Also their business practices are probably the fucking worst along side their "customer service")

It’s wild how long this video is for the information provided

How do you choose the annual option!? I’m currently subscribed to monthly. Please help! The google site didn’t help me at all. How do I know if I’m eligible for annual? I don’t see anything offered but the monthly family or single sub.

If I do this do I retain my downloaded content??? I’ve been a subscriber for a couple of years and I appreciate this information & thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

I've had youtube red/premium for around 10 years or something. I've had both the 1 user and multiple user premium accounts. It's definitely worth it and makes the experience much more pleasant. UKposts music also makes it worth it. If you split the cost with other people, it's a no brainer. I have high usage with this platform and it's music service. Overall I think it's a high value service. Highly recommended

YT Premium is my go to subscription. If I could only have one, this would be it. People pay £10 a month for Spotify alone, but with YT Premium you get the benefits of a standalone music streaming service along with add free UKposts for just another £2 a month.

i pay $13.99 and am charged $15.00 per month.. so, not sure switching is really worth it for just a couple bucks... or maybe Google raised their prices as of 09/01/2023?

Is this the same case for gmail email cloud storage?

2,030 hours of Ad-free videos! For me, it's absolutely worth it.

November 22 the price goes up to 29.99 for us. We canceled because of all the different companies that increased the price UKposts went up by a full 7$. It was far cheaper to go to Hulu, Disney and Espn. I suggest you cancel UKposts and get Hulu bundle instead.

Good info. I notice now that the monthly rate is 13.99 for new subs unless I pay for a year. I also notice that several of the channels I follow, or used to follow, have started putting ads into their content, making them mostly infomercials for Athletic Greens, various VPNs, and so forth. At least I can FF past those.

I've been trying to change my payment date for a good hour and I still can't find how to do it. Any idea how or where to look? Thanks!

My only concern is when they have new policies that they have exemptions for people grandfathered from UKposts red. Re-subscribing means starting over under current UKposts premium policies (which aren’t treated 100% exactly the same)

I'm up to >1.980 hours. Personally I am very glad for using Premium. I hate ads. I know that you can use adblock to get around some of them. But I want to support the people that spend hours to make content that I enjoy watching every day. I don't like cheating to get stuff I enjoy for free. And honestly, paying to use premium for a month, is not more expensive than what I spend a normal friday. I can afford it.

Cam, our family watches YT almost exclusively. We hate the ads with a passion. And of course, we are being played by the owners to buy a sub! I come from an era when the idea of paying for entertainment on TV was preposterous. And when we heard that Cable was coming without the ads being rammed down our collective throats, Cable seemed to be a good idea. Sure, you'd pay for a service, but then the programming was free. Now let me see, how long did that scenario last? Not very. Soon enough greed got the best of the cable moguls. And now we know the rest of the story. Or at least part of it. Amazon is just as bad about their services! We're paying for that one. And yet, they unbundle the privileges for the things they provide. But I want to thank you for explaining the benefits of a YT sub. Am seriously looking at it, as it's what we choose for most of our entertainment.

do we need to download a different app or using the same UKposts app that we've been using will work? Any assistance would be greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

Excellent advice! Just what I was looking for.

I've had the family plan ($14.99/m for six people) for about two years. My adult kids note that if a friend plays a video for them, the ads are brutal. They haven't seen ads for a while!

If I cancel my UKposts premium account on an Apple device, and then restart premium through my Google account, will I lose videos that I’ve downloaded and saved into playlists? Thank you for highlighting this issue, I had no idea.

Do I have to wait till my membership expires to be offered the lower priced offer? It’s not showing up for me now.