The option to leave google fi is not working even after clicking

It would be really nice if there was an option to buy out your subscription to upgrade to a newer phone.

Google Fi will continue to bill you through Google pay for months after you canceled and Google Fi abruptly shut off service, making it near impossible to port out your number. Even worse, Google Fi will use any credit card it can find in Google pay that you did not authorize to continue to silently bill you. Since you dont know your credit card was being billed you might miss payments, destroying your credit. You make multiple calls to Google Fi and spend hours of your precious time on the phone to no avail, because they are only there to gaslight you and waste your time.

You scramble to remove your bank information from Google Pay only to find that Google Pay will not allow you to remove all your banking information by stating that you have to have at least one payment method on your profile. If you try to delete the Google pay app from your phone as Google suggests, your account remains active and Fi continues to collect the same monthly fee as when you signed up. There is no way to stop them. This is a real life consumer nightmare. What do you do?

The first solution is to never join Google Fi. It is a consumer trap. There is no way to cancel service. The only way to stop Google Fi from accessing your bank accounts and credit cards anytime it wants without your consent is by closing your Google Pay account. This is from Google support:

To close your Google payments profile:

Optional: If you have multiple profiles, go to pay.google.com and make sure you’re signed in to the profile you want to close.

Go to pay.google.com Settings.

Under “Payments profile status,” select Close payments profile.

Follow the on-screen instruction

None of this is explained in either app and customer service reps will not give you this information. Is this illegal? Hell yeah. So just think a minute about all those emails, calendar invites, google chats, texts, contacts, search results, photos, videos and phone conversations on Android phones and both what is and could happen with all that information. Google cannot be trusted. Nothing is ever "free" or this cheap. And if you think Google isnt mining all your call and texts to sell your "data" (all the intimate details of your life) to its "partners" you would be wrong.

Note: if you choose to "subscribe" for a Pixel phone Google will collect your SSN number. If you read the terms they clearly state Google will keep your SSN forever and ever and will use it to access your credit information to sell to its partners any time, for any reason, even after you leave Fi. Google appears to be moving its operations to places with no consumer protections so this could get very bad for anyone with a Google account, which is everyone with an Android. Google also appears to be using Google pay to start billing you for data without warning or consent once you reach the data limit. The solution: leave Google, which is near impossible.

I've had the flexible plan and a pixel phone subscription for 16 months.

My idea was to keep fi until the 2 year mark, thinking that it meant i owned my phone and could stop making payments after 2 years. However, reading the site again, does it actually mean that i can upgrade to a new phone and keep this one... But, I have to upgrade the phone and keep paying Google Fi? So, i have a anvil over my head for eternity that i need to keep fi or else I will eventually pay full price of a phone?

If i cancel early, i have to pay full remaining price (no discount) of the phone.