How to turn off closed caption on YouTube

Almost all YouTube videos offer closed captions that users can easily enable on desktop and mobile. By default, closed captions are only in the primary language of the video, but users can also use subtitles if the video is in a foreign language. Viewers can enable closed captions on a per-video basis or for all videos. They can be added by the creator or auto-generated by Google's speech recognition system.

Closed captions on YouTube not only help viewers understand the content of the video when they are struggling to pick up the accent but can also help people who are hard-of-hearing. However, since captions and translations are automatically generated by YouTube using machine learning algorithms, the quality of the captions could vary due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects or background noise.

By default, YouTube does not display closed captions for most videos. To enable closed captions, go to the target video and click on the 'CC' icon at the bottom. This will enable closed captions for that video. To disable it, simply click on the same icon once again. As explained by Google, the process is pretty much identical on the YouTube app, although the 'CC' icon will be displayed at the top of the video window in this case. Again, just like on the website, closed captions will be off by default, but users can tap on the 'CC' icon once to enable it or tap on it for a second time to disable it. Viewers can also enable closed captions in the middle of video playback. To do that, just hover over the video with the mouse on the desktop or tap on the video on mobile to see the available options.

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Automatically Turn off Captions on YouTube

If you want to turn off all subtitles on YouTube, you can follow this guide:

1. Click your profile picture on YouTube and select Settings.

2. Select Playback and performance from the left menu list.

3. Uncheck Always show captions (this option is always selected by default). Make sure Include auto-generated captions (when available) is also not selected. The setting changes will be automatically saved.

If you want to turn on captions for all YouTube videos again, you need to check Always show captions or both according to your requirements.

Note: The playback settings only apply to the current web browser you are using. If you switch to another browser, you need to repeat the above steps to automatically turn off captions on YouTube.

How to Turn off Subtitles on YouTube on Mobile Devices?

It is very easy to turn off captions on YouTube on an Android phone/tablet or iPhone/iPad. On the video playing page, you can also find a cc button. If the subtitle shows up, you can click the cc button to disable it. Likewise, if the subtitle doesn’t appear, you can click the cc button to turn it on.

How to Download the Subtitle of a YouTube Video?

If a YouTube video includes a subtitle, you can download it using special software like MiniTool uTube Downloader.

This software is specially designed to download YouTube videos to MP3, MP4, WAV, and Webm with high resolutions. It can also help you download the subtitles. It is a free tool.

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Here is the way to download the subtitles of YouTube videos using this software.

Warning: Due to copyright issues, the downloaded YouTube videos should be used for personal use only.

1. Download and install MiniTool uTube Downloader on your computer.

2. Open the software.

3. Copy and paste the YouTube video’s URL to the box next to the Home button. You can also use this software to directly search for your needed YouTube video and then play it.

4. Click the download button to continue.

5. A small interface pops out. Then, you can select the subtitle you want to download. If you also want to download the video, you can select a proper format and resolution for it.

6. Click DOWNLOAD to start downloading the YouTube video.

7. When the downloading process ends, you can click the Navigate to file button to directly open the output folder to view the downloaded subtitle.

Wrapping Things up

Now, you know how to turn off subtitles on YouTube no matter you are using a computer or a mobile device. You can see it is very easy. On the other hand, if you want to download the video subtitle, just try MiniTool uTube Downloader.

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