iOS Video.app can natively handle subtitles that have been muxed into the movie. I use iFlicks to add my media into Plex and iTunes on my Mac and it muxes in the subtitles in seconds. Transferring to the videos.app on my iPhone via iTunes it plays back fine and I can turn subs on and off. Howeve…

Forced conversion for movies with subtitles

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