How To Turn off Captions on Twitter Videos? – (Updated 2022)

How to turn off captions on Twitter videos? Here's your guide to displaying or disabling captions while watching videos.

Twitter has more than 206 million active daily users and it continues to expand its domain each day. Its unending flow of content includes millions of tweets, images, and videos as well.

And videos on Twitter come with captions that can help you understand what the video is about. But most users prefer disabling captions on Twitter videos. Because they can be frustrating at times.

While they are convenient to some, you might prefer disabling them and watching the video with the audio only. In this guide, we have listed the steps to turn off CC on Twitter videos.

How To Disable Captions on Twitter Videos?

Twitter has been testing the toggle captions feature for some time now. It is available for a certain number of users. This means that you might have to wait for the feature to become available for your account as well.

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Follow the simple steps below in order to make sure that your account has the feature. Here's how you can disable captions on Twitter videos.

  • Open the video you want the watch without captions.
  • Tap on the CC button at the top-left corner of the window.
  • The captions are now disabled.

How To Enable Captions on Twitter Videos?

You might want to turn on captions if you are in a noisy area. Simply tap on the same button to toggle captions. Here's a video for you to test out the feature yourself.

  • Open the video you want the watch without captions.
  • Tap on the CC button at the top-left corner of the window.
  • The captions are now disabled.

The massive social media platform has many accessibility features in its arsenal. The latest one is the auto-caption and it supports 37 languages for videos within tweets. The feature has been around for some time now. But many users share that it hasn't been rolled out to their accounts yet.

We should also add that the auto-captions are not editable. So if you detect an error in the CC, you will not be able to fix it. But we know that the social media giant is planning to add the editable captions feature in the new updates. Auto-translation is also in the works.