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

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

For years, whether or not subtitles present up or not in your cellular system has been decided by quite a lot of components, like if you happen to’ve turned closed captions on in your cellphone’s accessibility settings, or if you happen to’re watching the video along with your hold forth. Whereas these are nonetheless taken into consideration, now you’ll be able to simply flip them on or off everytime you need, identical to you already might on Twitter’s web site and plenty of different video platforms.

If you wish to see an instance of the toggle, you’ll be able to take a look at The Verge’s tweet with a trailer for our Netflix present, which has a captions file connected. Employees members right here had been capable of 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 electronic mail to The Verge, Twitter spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo mentioned the button “will solely present up on movies with captions already obtainable, and isn’t associated to the automated caption system.” Hopefully, the toggle being obtainable to everybody will encourage anybody importing a video to Twitter to contemplate including captions.