You probably searched for “how to turn off live caption” because you saw captions popping up when you didn’t want them.
You don’t want to struggle—right when you open this article, you’ll know exactly how to turn captions off for your device. No extra steps, no confusion. Let’s do it.
Turning off live caption in Android settings
- “Live Caption is on”
- “Tap to disable captions”
- “Turn off live captions”
- “Captions are now off”
- “Live captions hidden”
- “Closed captions disabled”
- “Stop live captions”
- “Captions toggle off”
- “Accessibility caption off”
- “Disable captions now”
- “Hide live captions”
- “Disable live text”
- “Remove captions”
- “Caption off mode”
- “Stop auto subtitles”
- “Turn caption switch off”
- “Deactivate live captions”
- “Captions no more”
- “Live caption off”
- “Caption switch disabled”
Disabling live caption through volume controls
- “Press volume up”
- “Press volume down”
- “Tap three dots menu”
- “Open caption card”
- “Toggle caption off”
- “Caption icon appears”
- “Slide to disable”
- “Hide caption box”
- “Caption control panel”
- “Disable via volume slider”
- “Tap caption button off”
- “Remove caption overlay”
- “Close captions via volume”
- “Dismiss caption box”
- “Tap live caption icon”
- “Close caption panel”
- “Mute caption display”
- “Caption off from volume”
- “Volume control toggle captions”
- “Disable captions fast”
Turning off live caption in Google Chrome desktop
- “Open Chrome settings”
- “Go to Accessibility”
- “Manage accessibility features”
- “Find Captions section”
- “Live Caption toggle”
- “Uncheck live caption”
- “Disable Captions in Chrome”
- “Captions off now”
- “Stop live caption in browser”
- “Turn caption button off”
- “Close caption setting”
- “Chrome caption off”
- “Disable live text”
- “Hide captions in Chrome”
- “Turn off web captions”
- “Remove captions from video”
- “Deactivate live caption in Chrome”
- “No more captions in browser”
- “Caption toggle disabled”
- “Off for web captions”
Disabling live caption in Windows 11
- “Open Settings”
- “Go to Accessibility”
- “Select Captions”
- “Toggle off live caption”
- “Use shortcut”
- “Press Win + Ctrl + L”
- “Turn off caption window”
- “Stop auto captions”
- “Hide caption box”
- “Deactivate live caption”
- “Caption off mode”
- “No live text”
- “Disable captions in Windows”
- “Live caption disabled”
- “Remove caption overlay”
- “Stop captions in OS”
- “Windows caption off”
- “Close caption window”
- “Turn off captions permanently”
- “Caption switch off”
Turning off live caption on iPhone / iPad
- “Open Settings”
- “Go to Accessibility”
- “Find Live Captions”
- “Toggle live captions off”
- “No more captions”
- “Hide live transcription”
- “Disable captions beta”
- “Stop showing captions”
- “Turn off real-time text”
- “Captions off now”
- “Remove caption window”
- “Deactivate live caption”
- “Switch captions off”
- “Live caption disabled”
- “Close caption display”
- “Turn off text overlay”
- “Disable live subtitles”
- “Caption off iOS”
- “Stop in-app captions”
- “Off for live captions”
Disabling live caption on Mac
- “Open System Settings”
- “Go to Accessibility”
- “Click Live Captions”
- “Toggle switch off”
- “Hide caption window”
- “Stop live caption”
- “Deactivate captions”
- “No more live text”
- “Turn off on Mac”
- “Caption off mode”
- “Close caption panel”
- “Remove caption overlay”
- “Disable live transcription”
- “Caption window off”
- “Stop real-time captions”
- “Live captions off on macOS”
- “Switch off text overlay”
- “Hide captions always”
- “Off for live captions Mac”
Disabling live captions on Samsung / Galaxy devices
- “Open Settings”
- “Go to Accessibility”
- “Tap Hearing enhancements”
- “Tap Live Caption”
- “Toggle off Use Live Caption”
- “Captions disabled”
- “Hide live captions”
- “Remove caption overlay”
- “Stop captions on videos”
- “Switch captions off”
- “Live caption off now”
- “No more captions”
- “Deactivate live text”
- “Caption switch off”
- “Turn off automatic captions”
- “Disable live captions in phone”
- “Hide transcription box”
- “Samsung caption off mode”
- “Captions off for media”
Disabling live caption in global media controls
- “Click media control icon”
- “Open Global Media Controls”
- “Find caption toggle”
- “Uncheck live captions”
- “Disable through media menu”
- “Turn off captions fast”
- “Hide captions from media control”
- “Control captions globally”
- “Stop captions via media control”
- “Toggle off live caption”
- “Remove caption overlay”
- “Caption off global”
- “Turn off in media panel”
- “Disable live text for media”
- “No more captions”
- “Close caption control”
- “Turn off from global menu”
- “Stop web captions”
- “Disable via the media panel”
Why live captions may turn on by themselves
- “System update enabled it”
- “Accessibility default turned on”
- “Shortcut accidentally pressed”
- “App setting override”
- “Browser default caption”
- “Update resets settings”
- “Sync settings across devices”
- “Profile default turned on”
- “Caption service crash”
- “Bug in operating system”
- “Auto enable in accessibility”
- “Reset settings enabled it”
- “App forced caption”
- “Restored default settings”
- “Voice to text always active”
- “Caption override by OS”
- “Preset accessibility turned on”
- “Live caption default on”
- “Switch toggled by error”
What to do if captions won’t stay off
- “Check all settings again”
- “Disable in each app”
- “Update your device”
- “Reset accessibility settings”
- “Remove caption permissions”
- “Check browser extensions”
- “Turn off shortcuts”
- “Clear app data”
- “Disable sync settings”
- “Reboot device”
- “Check OS update”
- “Remove auto toggle”
- “Check in safe mode”
- “Check overlay apps”
- “Disable auto-enable features”
- “Reinstall app”
- “Contact support”
- “Reset configuration”
- “Turn off captions in all realms”
Conclusion
Now you have ten clear ways to turn off live caption on Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows, Chrome, Samsung and more.
The 20 sample captions under each heading show possible captions that appear when captions are active. Using the best quotes and steps, you can stop captions immediately.
Whenever captions annoy you again, come back to this article and follow the matching heading for your device.
