Learn how to switch on automated captions and create and adjust captions when using Instagram
Captions on reels and videos may not be available to everyone.
If captions are available, they’ll appear when you watch reels and videos in your feed. You can change this setting at any time:
- Select the icon with 3 horizontal lines
in the top right, then select ‘Settings’ - Select ‘Account’, then select ‘Captions’
- Switch captions off by moving the toggle left
or on by moving the toggle right 
next to ‘Captions’.
On Android
1. Select the icon with 3 dots 
2. Select ‘manage captions’. Switch captions off by moving the toggle left or on by moving the toggle right
3. Select the profile picture icon 
or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile.
On iOS
1. Select the icon with 3 dots 
at the top of the video
2. Select ‘manage captions’. Switch captions off by moving the toggle left or on by moving the toggle right
3. Select the profile icon or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile.
Before sharing a video
- Before you share a video post on Instagram, select ‘Advanced settings’
- Scroll to ‘Accessibility’. Next to ‘Show captions’, switch captions off by moving the toggle left or on by moving the toggle right .
Note: if a video has embedded captions, the automated captions will overlap with them, making it hard to read either set of captions. We recommend switching automated captions off so you can read the embedded captions.
After sharing a video
On Android
1. Select the icon with 3 dots at the top of the video.
2. Select ‘edit’
3. Select ‘Remove captions’ to turn them off.
4. Tick or untick ‘Always show captions’.
5. Tick or untick ‘Include auto-generated captions (when available)’. This option turns on or off automatic captions for videos that do not have captions added.
On iOS
1. Select the icon with 3 dots at the top of the video.
2. Select ‘Edit’.
3. Select ‘Advanced settings’. Where it says ‘Show captions’, switch captions on by moving the toggle to the right or off by moving the toggle to the left .
If captions are available on video posts you share, they’ll automatically appear unless you turn them off.