Twitter’s closed caption toggle is now out there on iOS and Android

Twitter has announced {that a} button to toggle captions for its video participant is now out there for everybody on iOS and Android. The button, which reveals up within the top-right nook of the video if it has captions out there, permits you to select whether or not you wish to see written descriptions. Twitter began testing this characteristic in April, nevertheless it was solely out there to a restricted variety of iPhone customers.

For years, whether or not subtitles present up or not in your cell gadget has been decided by quite a lot of components, like should you’ve turned closed captions on in your telephone’s accessibility settings, or should you’re watching the video together with your hold forth. While these are nonetheless taken into consideration, now you may simply flip them on or off everytime you need, identical to you already might on Twitter’s web site and lots of different video platforms.

If you wish to see an instance of the toggle, you may try The Verge’s tweet with a trailer for our Netflix present, which has a captions file connected. Staff members right here had been in a position to see the toggle on each iPhones and Android telephones, although it may very well be a bit glitchy — generally captions merely wouldn’t seem, and urgent the button often froze the video.

In an e-mail to The Verge, Twitter spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo stated the button “will only show up on videos with captions already available, and is not related to the automated caption system.” Hopefully, the toggle being out there to everybody will encourage anybody importing a video to Twitter to contemplate including captions.