Today after having updated my phone to the latest beta of IOS 16 the captions on videos is working once more, so if you have the setting on that allows captions/subtitles in media to be read by Voice over. The bug that was not allowing the captions to be read when watching a video that might have the subtitles is working once again.
By Joker_Alice, 9 August, 2022
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