To enable subtitles on YouTube, open the video and select CC in the player. On a TV or game console, pause the video and open Captions. The option appears only when captions are available for that video.
Turn on subtitles on a computer
- Open the YouTube video.
- Select CC at the bottom-right of the player to turn captions on. Select CC again to turn them off.
To change how captions look, open Settings > Subtitles/CC > Options. You can adjust the font, color, opacity, size, background, window, and character-edge settings. Your choices remain the default until you change or reset them. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings.
Turn on subtitles on Android
- Open the video and tap the player once to reveal its controls.
- Tap CC to turn captions on. Tap it again to turn them off.
- To choose a language, tap More > Captions, then select an available option.
For caption defaults, open your profile picture, then Settings > Captions. YouTube lists settings for caption size and style, a Show captions default, and Show when muted on mobile and tablet. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings.
Turn on subtitles on iPhone or iPad
- Open the video and tap the player to reveal its controls.
- Tap CC to enable captions; tap it again to disable them.
- To choose a language, open More > Captions and select an available language.
To set the default appearance or enable captions when available, open the device’s Settings > Accessibility > Subtitles and Captioning. YouTube’s instructions identify Style and Closed Captions + SDH controls there. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings.
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Turn on subtitles on a TV, console, or media device
- Pause the video.
- Open Captions in the playback controls.
- Select a language if one is available. To adjust appearance, open Caption style and change the font, background, or window settings.
The exact controls can vary by device. If Captions is visible but unavailable, the video may not offer captions; if it is not shown, captions are unavailable for that video on that device. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings.
Change the subtitle language or use Auto-translate
Open the video’s Captions or Subtitles/CC menu and choose a listed language. If the language you want is not listed, look for Auto-translate and select a language there if the option is offered. Neither a particular language track nor Auto-translate is available for every video or platform. YouTube says automatic captions, when available, are in the video’s default language. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings; YouTube Help: Use automatic captions.
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If the CC button or language option is missing
- No captions appear in the menu: The video may have no owner-provided captions and no captions automatically added by YouTube. Captions are not available for every video. YouTube Help: Manage caption settings.
- Your preferred language is absent: Check for Auto-translate, if offered. YouTube does not promise it for every video or language combination.
- You want captions on by default: Use the platform’s caption or accessibility settings described above; the available default controls differ by device.
- You want to add or edit captions: The player’s CC button is a viewer control. Adding or editing a caption track is a creator task in YouTube Studio, not something you can do from the video player. YouTube Help: Add subtitles and captions.
Subtitles and captions on YouTube
YouTube labels the viewer feature “captions (subtitles).” Caption files contain spoken text and timestamps; some also contain positioning and styling information. The label in menus and available options may vary as YouTube updates its interface. YouTube Help: Add subtitles and captions.
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