Should you at any time want to stop using Instant, you can cancel your Instant plan. After cancelling your Instant plan, you will be moved to the Free plan. On the free plan you can still publish 1 page, 1 section and 1 blog item for free. But only if you do not have any active layouts that go beyond the active plan limitations.
Canceling your Instant plan
There are two methods for cancelling your Instant plan.
Through project settings (Recommended)
You can cancel your Instant plan by navigating to Project settings > Plans. Here you can view your current active plan.
Proceed by clicking on the Cancel plan button which is visible on the bottom the Free plan. This will then downgrade your plan to the Free plan.
This method also allows you to still remove layouts directly through Instant without need to edit your theme directly. Deleting all layouts in Instant will remove all Instant related files from your theme.
Cancelling by deleting the Instant App
The second method would be by deleting the App from your Shopify store, this automatically also cancels your active Instant subscription.
Deleting the Instant App will prevent you from managing your Instant layouts within the Instant Builder as well.
To find your Instant app within your Shopify store, navigate to Apps and sales channels, select the Instant app. On the bottom of the page you can proceed by clicking the Uninstall App button.
You can learn more about installing Shopify apps here.
Removing Instant code from your theme
When the Instant app is installed without removing your published layouts first in Instant, then these layout files will remain installed within your theme. You can remove these manually by navigating your Shopify environment Online store > Customize > Edit code.
Now the Theme code editor should be visible, search for 'Instant' within the Filter FIles search box.
Now all Instant related files should be visible, select an Instant file and click on the trashcan button to delete it.
The Built with Instant badge
When using the Free plan with Instant, a badge will appear in the bottom left corner when viewing pages or sections created with Instant. This badge will not be displayed on pages that were not built with the Instant builder or do not include Instant-created sections.
An active plan is required to hide this badge, deleting all Instant layouts will remove this badge.
