Article 695Q5 Twitter has removed captions from Spaces on iOS, and they don’t work on the web or Android

Twitter has removed captions from Spaces on iOS, and they don’t work on the web or Android

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Jay Peters
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Twitter Spaces, the company's social audio rooms, no longer lets you use captions if you're listening on iOS. Twitter still advertises that you can turn on captions through the three-dot menu in a Space, but on iOS, that option currently isn't there.

On other platforms, it seems like captions should work but don't. When listening to a Space on the web, captions don't show, and while the CC" closed captions button is present, clicking it on or off doesn't change anything. On Android, the option to turn on captions is there, but it didn't work for one Verge staffer.

The loss of captions in Spaces is a major blow to accessibility on the platform, as captions can be useful for those who are hard of hearing or who may want to follow a...

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