Apple Says iOS 27 Can Automatically Add Captions to Your Personal iPhone Videos
Apple has announced new accessibility features for iOS 27, including automatic captions for personal videos. This feature will utilize on-device speech recognition to generate captions for videos without existing captions. Initially, it will support English in the U.S. and Canada and will be available across multiple Apple devices.
- ▪Apple's iOS 27 will include automatic captions for personal videos.
- ▪The captions will be generated using on-device speech recognition.
- ▪This feature will initially support English in the U.S. and Canada.
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Apple Says iOS 27 Can Automatically Add Captions to Your Personal iPhone VideosWednesday May 20, 2026 9:46 am PDT by Joe RossignolApple this week previewed new accessibility features that are coming later this year, and one is particularly notable: automatic captions for personal videos. For videos that do not already have captions, Apple said a new on-device speech recognition model can automatically generate them for spoken audio. According to Apple, this feature will be available for videos that you record on your iPhone, videos that you receive from friends and family, and videos that are streamed online. The automatic captions will initially be limited to English in the U.S. and Canada.
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