# Play Developer API subscriptions.cancel stops working

Calls to POST /androidpublisher/v3/applications/{id}/purchases/subscriptions/{id}/tokens/{id}:cancel on Google Play Developer API stop working on August 31, 2028.

On August 31, 2028, the subscriptions.cancel endpoint will stop working. This change affects calls to POST /androidpublisher/v3/applications/{id}/purchases/subscriptions/{id}/tokens/{id}:cancel. Requests made to this endpoint after that day will fail.

## What to use instead

Use subscriptionsv2.cancel instead.

- API: Google Play Developer API (androidpublisher.googleapis.com)
- Kind: Removal
- Announced: May 19, 2026
- Takes effect: August 31, 2028
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `POST /androidpublisher/v3/applications/{id}/purchases/subscriptions/{id}/tokens/{id}:cancel`
- Source: [Lifecycle page](https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/play-developer-apis-deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Google Play Developer API's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/providers/google-play-developer-api/breaking-changes/play-developer-api-subscriptions-cancel-stops-working/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent