One may turn them off manually only to see them return when the next video begins. Frustrating to see so many complaints about this, but absolutely no response or effort to fix from Google/YouTube.Īs apparent from the above comments, YouTube captions keep turning on automatically even when disabled. I have the captions setting turned off on mobile and browser, but about 75% of the time on mobile videos start playing with CC on.

I even tried setting my location in the mobile app to something else, changing my phone language to some language I don’t know and also turning them off everywhere but it still looks at my location and decides to turn this on any time there are subtitles available. The issue has persisted over the years and has led to a slew of complaints on the official YouTube forums.

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Does youtube have closed caption