Watching movies with subtitles can enhance your viewing experience, especially when you’re watching a movie in a foreign language or if the audio quality is poor.
While adding subtitles to movies is pretty straightforward on a computer, the process can be a bit challenging on an iPhone due to the differences in software compatibility, file management, and the overall interface of iOS.
So, we’ve put together this short guide to help you through the process of adding subtitles to movies on an iPhone so you’re able to enjoy your favorite films without any hurdles.
Enabling Subtitles for Apple TV and Supported Third-Party Apps
If you watch movies on your iPhone using the Apple TV app, you can easily enable subtitles within the app itself—if available. During playback, tap the screen to bring up playback controls. Then, tap the three dots in the bottom-right corner of the screen, chooseSubtitles, and select your preferred language.
Additionally, you’re able to turn on subtitles for supportedthird-party video player appsby going toSettings > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioningand enabling the toggle forClosed Captions + SDH.
You can also customize the look of your subtitles by tappingStyleand adjusting the settings for text size, font, background, and outline, or create a new style from scratch.
Get Subtitles With Third-Party Video Players
The App Store is home to several third-party video players that offer advanced playback features and seamless subtitle integration with movies and TV shows. One popular choice isVLC Media Player, a feature-rich app that lets youplay MKV files on your iPhone.
The first step to watching a movie with subtitles in the VLC app is to import it directly into the app’s library. There are several ways you can do this:
The last option is the most reliable for importing large movie files into the VLC app. The following steps detail how you can use the Sharing via Wi-Fi feature to import movies from your computer to your iPhone:
Once the movie is imported, you’ll see it in theVideotab of the VLC app. Open the video and tap thespeech bubbleicon from the playback options. UnderSubtitles, tapDownload subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org. The app presents a list of subtitles fetched online from this website. Select the desired subtitle track to add it to the movie.
Follow these steps every time you want to watch movies with subtitles on your iPhone.
Watching Any Movie With Subtitles Is Possible
Apple TV, iPhone’s native video app, allows you to watch movies with subtitles in various languages easily. However, iPhones do not support SRT files natively, so there’s no way you can directly download or read them on your device.
While this may be a bummer for those who prefer watching movies on their smartphones, third-party apps like VLC media player serve as workarounds to watch movies with subtitles on your iPhone by fetching subtitles from the web.
