Captions can help everyone, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Live Captions offer real-time, on-device-generated transcriptions of conversations so you can follow along with auditory and visual media including Phone and FaceTime calls, as well as content from the web, securely on your device.3 They can even capture and caption live in-person speech. And you can customize the Live Captions window so that the size, placement, fonts, and colors suit your needs.4 Live Captions also work with Apple Vision Pro, so you can follow along with spoken dialogue in live conversations on FaceTime as well as audio from apps systemwide.
Works simultaneously with Live Speech. For users who are nonspeaking, Live Captions for iPhone, iPad, and Mac are simultaneously compatible with Live Speech.
Set up Live Captions on:
- Compatibility: Available on iPhone 11 and later, iPads with A12 Bionic or later, Macs with Apple Silicon, and Apple Vision Pro.