Today I’m here to share my experience with how to cancel an Alexa routine. I recently decided to set up an Alexa routine, only to find out that it was a bit more complicated than I had anticipated. After some trial and error, I was eventually able to figure out how to cancel it. I’ll be walking you through the steps I took, so you can avoid the same mistakes I made.
Canceling an Alexa routine is a simple process that is completed through the official Alexa app on your smartphone. Once you’re in the app, click on the routine you want to cancel and then toggle it to disable the routine.
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| – Canceling an Alexa routine is done through the official Alexa app. |
| – You can edit, delete, delay, and share routines all through the app. |
| – You cannot stop an action in an Alexa routine, but you can disable or delete the routine. |
| – To stop music in an Alexa routine, say the command “Alexa stop my music” or delete the music action from the routine. |
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How to cancel an Alexa routine
To cancel an Alexa routine, you will need to disable it in the Alexa app. This can be done by opening the Alexa app and clicking on the Routines section.
Select the routine you want to cancel and then toggle it to disable the routine. Once you have disabled it, the routine will stay in this state until you reactivate it.
How to cancel an Alexa routine that is currently playing
This is a bit trickier since Alexa currently doesn’t support the option to cancel a routine once it starts playing.
For example, you have a routine setup to turn on the lights at 7 am, play music at 7:30 am, and then read the news at 8 am.
If you tell Alexa to cancel when the lights turn on at 7 am, it will just cancel that action and not the entire routine.
The music will still play at 7:30 am, as well as any other actions that follow. A way around this is to simply disable or delete the action.
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How to delete an Alexa routine
You can delete an Alexa routine by opening the Alexa app and then clicking on the routine that you want to remove. Locate the three dots at the top right corner of the screen and click on them.
A menu will appear at the bottom of your screen. Click on the Delete Routine link on the menu. This will permanently delete the routine from your account.
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How to stop an action in an Alexa routine
Unfortunately, there is no simple way to stop an action in an Alexa routine. Instead, you will need to either disable or delete the routine all together.
Alexa users have been extremely vocal about their desire to have a way to stop an action in a routine. But as of spring 2022, Amazon has yet to release a patch or fix for this problem.
With that said, however, there is a workaround that some users have found to this annoying problem. Once you have the Alexa app open, click on the routine you want to edit and then click on the “Wait” link.
Then select the amount of time you want to delay the action. Then you can move the “Wait” to where you want the delay to occur in the routine.
How to stop music in an Alexa routine
The quickest way to stop music in an Alexa routine is to simply say the command, “Alexa stop my music.” when the music is playing.
Another option is to remove the music action from the routine all together. This is done by opening the Alexa app and clicking on the routine you want to edit. Select the action, such as playing music, that you want to remove and then simply delete it from the routine.
Once the music action has been deleted, that routine will no longer play music unless you add the action back to it.
