Twitter brings closed caption toggle to iOS, Android apps: All it’s good to know

Twitter introduced that it’s rolling out a button to toggle captions for its video participant  on its iOS and Android functions. If a video has captions accessible, the button shall be seen on the top-right nook of the video and can let customers select whether or not they need to see captions for the video or not rapidly. Twitter was reportedly testing the function in April, however on the time, it was solely accessible to a restricted variety of iOS customers.

Until now, closed captions confirmed up on Twitter movies in your cell phone relying on many components together with whether or not you could have turned it on in your cellphone’s accessibility settings and whether or not you’re watching a video along with your pontificate. While that’s nonetheless the case, now you can simply flip captions on and off once you need, much like how the implementation works on the Twitter web site.

In an e-mail interplay with The Verge, Twitter spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo stated that the button will solely present up on movies with captions already accessible and isn’t associated to the automated caption system.

Video captions or no captions, it’s now simpler to decide on for a few of you on iOS, and shortly on Android.

On movies which have captions accessible, we’re testing the choice to show captions off/on with a brand new “CC” button. pic.twitter.com/Q2Q2Wmr78U

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 22, 2022

In different information, Twitter confirmed earlier this week that it’s engaged on a built-in ‘Notes’ function that can permit customers to jot down long-form textual content on the platform as an alternative of getting to hyperlink to an article or weblog that they’ve written externally. Currently, tweets are restricted to 280 characters. The Notes function is at present underneath testing and is simply accessible in sure areas just like the United States, Ghana and Canada.

Notes shall be a separate part within the app the place Twitter customers will be capable to write out their long-form content material right into a ‘Write’ tab. This longer piece can then be embedded right into a tweet afterward to publish it. Twitter additionally talked about {that a} group of writers has been serving to the platform take a look at the function by publishing Notes with different tweets, photographs and movies embedded into them.