I have Xbox ultimate but woke to these alerts about gold and gamepass expiring in 11 days...

No you don't need to cancel the subscription, you will simply need to wait the natural expiration.

From what you have written I think that you have a Gamepass Ultimate (which already includes all Gold benefits), therefore your only way to have only an active gold is this:

- cancel the recurring billing for Gamepass Ultimate (already done)

- wait until the natural expiration of Gamepass Ultimate

- Buy a Gold Membership Card or activate the gold subscription on the xbox store

Unfortunately there is no way to make a direct downgrade from Gamepass Ultimate to Gold

I hope this could help you

it will convert gold to 4 months gamepass ultimate, if you want the gold for the full 12 months let the gamepass ultimate expire first.

To specifically answer, although Smwtches has given you the conversion table.

2 months Ultimate + 1 Month Gamepass =

2months + 20 days of Ultimate.

Note you will need to expire your ultimate and then cancel Ultimate to be able to get 1 month Gold. If you expire your ultimate and dont cancel then when you add your gold it will be converted to Ultimate.

I had 1 month of gamepass ultimate that expired on Feb 3rd but no gold.

I thought if I renewed it on the same year it expired it would be fine, was it because I moved from gold to gamepass ultimate? then back to gold again after it expired?