Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
Apple says that during a video call in the FaceTime app you can turn on Live Captions to see the spoken conversation transcribed and displayed in real time.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“During a video call in the FaceTime app, you can turn on Live Captions to see the spoken conversation transcribed and displayed in real time.”
Use Live Captions and Live Translation in FaceTime on iPhone, Apple Support (iPhone User Guide), 2026, Use Live Captions and Live Translation in FaceTime on iPhone.
Open the original- What it measures
- Read from the FaceTime section of Apple's iPhone User Guide, which lists iOS 27 in its table of contents.
- What it does not show
- This covers FaceTime video calls. It does not say that Live Captions works on a cellular phone call.