Caption preferences: Change caption formatting

Some of these steps work only on Android 11.0 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.

Turn captions on or off

Turn on captions

1. Open your device's Settings app .
2. Tap Accessibility Caption preferences.
3. Tap Show captions.

Change caption size & style

Important: Your preferences may not work with media apps that don't support Caption Preferences.

1. Open your device's Settings app .
2. Tap Accessibility Caption preferences.
3. Tap Caption size and style
4. To change caption size, tap Text size, then select the text size.
5. To change the style and color for caption text and background, tap Caption style, then select the style.