Have you ever tried to watch a YouTube video on your phone but couldn’t understand what they’re saying because of their accent or they weren’t speaking clearly?
In this video, you’ll learn how to turn on or off captions for any YouTube video using a YouTube app whether you’re using an iPhone or Android device.
The captions will appear under your video as you’re watching it. I’ll also show you how to change the size and style of the captions so you can read them more easily on your phone.
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How To Enable Captions On YouTube App
- Tap the YouTube app.
- Select the video that you want to enable captions for.
- Tap the video.
- Tap the video again.
- Tap the three dots.
- Tap captions off.
- Select English United States.
Now, you can see I’ve got captions under my video. You can do the same for any videos on YouTube as long as the captions are available.
Here’s how to turn captions off on the YouTube app
- Tap the YouTube app.
- Select a video where you wish to turn the captions off.
- Tap the video.
- Tap the video again.
- Tap the three dots.
- Tap captions English. Tap off.
Now, you can see there’s no captions under the video. If the video doesn’t offer captions, CC might show, but you can’t select it. If CC doesn’t show, that means captions aren’t available for that video.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you normally turn captions on when watching a YouTube video? Post your answer on the comments below. I’d love to read them and I’m sure others would too.
Here’s how to change the font size and style of captions when using an iOS device.
- If using an iPhone, tap settings.
- Tap general.
- Tap accessibility.
- Scroll down to media.
- Tap subtitles and captioning.
- It says closed captions and SDH.
- Tap on. It says, when available, prefer closed captioning and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Tap style. You can select transparent background, large text, classic, outline text, style 1 or change new style. In the new style, you can change your font, font size, color, background color.
- Under advanced, you can change the text opacity from opaque, semi-transparent, transparent.
- Change the text edge style, none, drop shadow, raised, depressed, uniform.
- Tap text highlight. You can select black, blue, red, green, et cetera. It’ll show you how subtitles look.
Now, you can select style 1 or you can select style 2. That’s how the captions will appear on your video.
What if you want to transcribe your own YouTube videos so captions and subtitles automatically appear under the video as the viewer is watching it?
Click here to watch my next video for 5 ways to quickly transcribe a YouTube video.
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