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Change Crave caption styling in the correct settings layer

Crave uses different caption-style routes on Android mobile, Android TV/Fire TV and Apple devices. Enabling a caption track and changing its appearance are separate actions.

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Enable the text track in Crave first

Crave’s caption help places the language icon at the lower right of the player. Select a language under Closed Captions to enable it, or Off to disable it. Use this control to establish that captions are active before changing their style. A style preference concerns the appearance of supplied text; it should not be treated as creating a translation that the programme does not provide.

Use the mobile operating-system route on Android

For Android mobile, Crave directs opening the device’s Accessibility settings and Caption preferences. Turn Show captions on, then use Caption size and style. This differs from the television application’s own editing route. When helping someone on a phone, identify the device settings screen rather than repeatedly looking for the television menu inside the mobile player.

Edit the style inside Android TV or Fire TV playback

On Android TV and Fire TV, Crave instead says to play the video, open Closed Captions from the player controls and choose Edit CC style. Adjust the offered size and text style there. That is an application-player route; the phone instruction should not be copied onto the television merely because both platforms use Android-related software.

Use Apple’s accessibility style on Apple TV

Crave’s Apple TV guidance points to the device’s Settings, Accessibility, Subtitles and Captioning, then Style. Apple’s own hardware guide confirms existing styles and Edit Styles for font, size, colour, background and opacity choices. After choosing one, return to the captioned Crave passage and check readability at the normal viewing distance. These instructions concern the Apple TV device, not a similarly named app on an unrelated television.

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