How to remove auto-generated captions on YouTube

• Unpublish hides the automatic track from viewers but keeps it in YouTube Studio. You can publish it again later. Start here.
• Delete removes the track. Use it only when you're sure you won't want it back.

Do either only once your own captions are up, or the video will have none. Captions help viewers watching with the sound off and viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

1. In YouTube Studio, choose Subtitles in the left menu and click the video.
2. Find the track published by Automatic (for English, “English (Automatic)”).
3. Open its options menu (⋮, next to Duplicate and edit) and choose Unpublish.

YouTube moves its menus around now and then; if yours looks different, look for Unpublish on that track.

1. In YouTube Studio, choose Subtitles and click the video.
2. For the language, in the Subtitles column, choose Options, then Delete.
3. Confirm with Delete captions.

Any of these gives viewers a track without the auto-generated label:

• Duplicate and edit the automatic captions and fix them (see how to fix YouTube's auto-captions).
• Upload a file with timing: SRT is the safest choice. The guide to caption file formats covers the rest, and the caption converter changes one format into another.
• Let CaptionMe do it on every upload. Connect your channel once; each new video is captioned with names spelled from your title and description, emailed to you to review, and published as its own track under your name. Start with 60 free minutes.