What's New in Live Captions and Translation (October 2026)
This roundup does not add a new Live Captions control for October 2026. For speech on an iPhone or a Mac, follow the iPhone and Mac Live Captions guides.
Summary
- This roundup does not change how you turn on Live Captions for October 2026.
- For an iPhone or a Mac, use the Live Captions guides linked in this article.
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October's captions
Turning on Live Captions is unchanged in this October 2026 roundup, and no extra switch is described. If the control is already on, leave it.
Live Captions guides
On an iPhone, start with iPhone Live Captions. On a Mac, start with Mac Live Captions.
For languages, open iPhone Live Translation languages. Mac apps are in live caption apps for Mac. MacWhisper has its own write-up at MacWhisper. The Nemotron model is in Nemotron transcribe.