# Request: Larger subtitles

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809>\
**Category:** Plex Players\
**Tags:** ios\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809 "2025-08-11T02:38:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mcandre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mcandre/32/210047_2.png) [@mcandre](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mcandre)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809/1 "2025-08-11T02:38:09Z")

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Subtitles tend to render quite small on mobile devices. Especially when the subtitle tracks specify a small font size.

Also, subtitles often present with strange, low contrast foreground, background, and outline colors.

Can we please get playback controls to override subtitle font settings?

For example, a menu with relative subtitle font size options including 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% (default), 200%, 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, 700%, 800%, would be appreciated. Such a control would support a wide range of Plex clients and screen dimensions.

For example, a menu with a dozen or so stock subtitle font styles, would be appreciated:

- Foreground: Yellow, Background: Transparent, Outline: Black (Default)
- Foreground: White, Background: Black, Outline: None (Closed Captions)
- Foreground: Null, Background: Null, Outline: Null (Passthrough)

On iPad and iPhone, Apple provides some OS level options in Settings → Accessibility → Subtitles & Captioning. However, this only works for a second. Then the styling resets back to how it was before 😕

Some users suggest changing OS settings thusly to adjust subtitles. However, Plex has the ability to transcode, and therefore has the potential alter the font styling of subtitles in flight. Many OS subtitle settings inherit from track settings, so Plex could help the user to obtain consistent subtitle styling in a device independent way.

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**Author:** ![SuperSecret](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/supersecret/32/10006_2.png) [@SuperSecret](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SuperSecret)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809/2 "2025-08-11T02:49:46Z")

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Suggest moving this to feature requests so we can vote on it. I support this!

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**Author:** ![mcandre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mcandre/32/210047_2.png) [@mcandre](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mcandre)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809/3 "2025-08-11T02:58:55Z")

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The subtitles system could use an overhaul. On iPad, subtitles still exhibit the glitch where they show up for a second upon resuming playback, only to disappear for the rest of the video.

Not seeing iPad options to burn in subtitles during transcoding.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809/4 "2025-08-11T06:46:45Z")

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There’s already one…

> [@Subtitles settings (font, color, offset time, position)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/subtitles-settings-font-color-offset-time-position/232538):
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> Plex is almost perfect to me except it does not allow user to change subtitles color, font, offset time, etc… like common HD video players else. It’s painful for my myopic eyes to keep watching the thin-white text. Plex did very well the major things such as playback quality, video/audio format, library… but the subtitles is fixed in white (?)… I’m quite shock, especially when I did search “subtitles color” in this forum and found that this issue was mentioned from 2012 but never be solved. I’…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-larger-subtitles/928809/5 "2025-11-09T06:46:47Z")

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Closed on November 9, 2025, 6:46am UTC

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