How To Remove Auto-Captions on LinkedIn™ Videos (and Keep Your Content Clean)
When you post a video on LinkedIn, it’s worth remembering one thing: most of your audience won’t actually hear it.
Why?
Because on a B2B platform like LinkedIn, it’s safe to assume your viewers will often be on mute. Just think about your own consumption habits. Logging on from the lunchroom, an open-plan office, or while commuting.
That’s why captions are such a big deal on LinkedIn. They let your content be understood without a single sound.
But if you’ve already added captions during your edit - maybe with large, legible, on-brand fonts— that’s not going to stop LinkedIn from layering its own automatic native captions over the top.
Sometimes that’s fine. But more often? It just becomes a distracting mess.
Two sets of captions competing for attention create visual clutter, break your design flow, and can easily reduce engagement. If you’ve gone the extra mile to make your captions beautiful and brand-aligned, the last thing you want is LinkedIn’s default overlay undoing all that hard work.
Here’s How to Remove LinkedIn’s Auto-Captions
- From your homepage, click Start a Post.
- Scroll down to the bottom left and click Add Media.
- Drag your video into the window or upload it from your computer.
- Once your video is loaded, scroll to the Captions section (bottom left).
- Click Captions.
- Turn off the Add Auto Captions feature.
- Click Apply.
LinkedIn will now leave your video exactly as you intended—clean, clear, and on-brand.
The Bottom Line
Captions are powerful. They keep your video accessible and watchable in any environment.But like any form of digital media, you need to consider how they’ll appear in context. In this case, switching off auto-captions when you’ve already added your own protects your design, preserves clarity, and improves your audience’s experience.
A small change that makes a big difference in how your content feels.
