Preffered Captions: Always show (auto-generated) captions in original language

[craftgeil]

Describe the feature request

With the help of an article from google I learned that subtitles can always be displayed (even on iOS/iPadOS) without manually enabling them (Picture 1). However this only works with videos wich have proper subtitles, so any videos with auto-generated ones, I still have to enable them manually.

Using the newly released "Preffered-captions" feature to select one fixed language does not work for me, because I want e.g. german videos with german captions and english videos with english captions.

Is it possible to add a feature, which always shows captions even when they are auto-generated like on desktop (Picture 2)?

Article from google to always enable subtitles on iOS / iPadOS:

Option on the desktop version:

How it currently is when opening videos on iPhone / iPad (auto-generated ones are not picked)

How it is on PC (auto-generated ones are also enabled automatically)

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[dayanch96]

I may add option for subtitles that selects the original language, as I did with the audio-track

[dayanch96]

Added in 5.0.2. Don't forget to enable "Auto-generated captions" option to be able to select auto-generated/translated captions