This Itechguide teaches you how to turn on subtitles on YouTube. The guide covers steps to turn on subtitles on YouTube from a PC and the YouTube Apps.
Option 1: Turn on Subtitles from a PC
This section has two sub-sections: 1, turn on subtitles for a YouTube video. 2, enable “Include auto-generated Captions”.
Method 1: Enable Subtitles for a Video
- Open YouTube.com from your computer. Then open the video you want to turn subtitles on.
- When the video opens, hover over it to display available options. Then, at the bottom right of the video (left of Settings gear), click the subtitles icon.
- Subtitles will start displaying in the video immediately.
Method 2: Enable “Include auto-generated Captions”
You can configure your YouTube account to auto-generate captions for videos that do not have subtitles.
- Open YouTube.com from your PC. Then, if you have not yet signed into YouTube, sign in with your YouTube account.
- Once you are signed in, on the top right of the page, click your account profile icon. Then, from the displayed options, click Settings.
- On the left pane of your YouTube account settings, click Playback and performance.
- Then, beside Subtitles and Closed Captions, check the Always show captions (checked by default) and Include auto-generated captions (when available) boxes.
Option 2: Turn on Subtitles from the Android App
- Open YouTube App for Android on your phone. Then, sign in with your Google Account.
- Open the video you want to view and wait for it to start playing. To display options, tap anywhere in the video.
- Then tap the 3 dots on the top right of the video. From the displayed options, tap Captions.
- Finally, to turn on subtitles on YouTube, beneath Captions, tap the available Language.
- The video will start displaying subtitles immediately.
Option 3: Turn on Subtitles from the iPhone App
- Open the YouTube App on your iPhone.
- Then open the video you want to play and wait for it to start playing. To display the video options tap anywhere on the video.
- Tap the 3 dots on the top right of the video. Then, from the displayed options, tap Captions.
- Finally, to turn on subtitles on YouTube, from the captions options, tap the available language you want to display your subtitles.
- Now play the video, it will start displaying subtitles.
It is this easy to turn on subtitles on YouTube!
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