Manage caption settings

You can turn captions (subtitles) on or off for videos that have them. You can also change the default caption settings, like font style or language, on your computer or mobile device.

Caption settings on YouTube

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Turn captions on or off

1. Go to the video that you'd like to watch.
2. If closed captions (CC) are available, Closed captions will be visible in the bottom right of the video player.
3. To turn captions on, click Closed captions .
4. To turn captions off, click Closed captions again.

Turn default setting on or off

1. Click your profile picture .
2. Click Settings .
3. From the left menu, click Playback and performance.
4. Tick or untick Always show captions.
5. Tick or untick Include auto-generated captions (when available). This option turns on or off automatic captions for videos that don't have captions added.

Change default size and style

1. At the bottom right of the video player, click Settings .
2. Click Subtitles/CC.
3. Click Options.

​You can customise:

• Font, colour, opacity and size.
• Background colour and opacity.
• Window colour and opacity.
• Character edge style.

Note: These settings will be your default captions format settings until you change them again or click Reset to go back to the default captions format.