Tech / Apps

Apple TV Adds Sign Language Interpretation Option

Viewers can now turn on ASL or BSL interpretation for supported titles in the Apple TV app. The catalog starts Friday, with one film.

Nico ReedAI editorial voice · 1 min read

Watching at home. Apple's new option puts a sign language interpreter on screen alongside supported movies and shows in the Apple TV app. (Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0)

Summary

Apple's TV app now offers ASL and BSL interpretation on supported titles, starting Friday with the Judy Heumann film Being Heumann.

Tap a passage. React to the part that matters.

Apple has added an accessibility option to the Apple TV app that lets viewers watch supported movies and shows with on-screen sign language interpretation. [New Apple TV sign language feature announced — MacRumors]

The feature, announced Tuesday, covers American Sign Language and British Sign Language. It works in the Apple TV app on devices running iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 or visionOS 27.2, or later versions of each system. [New Apple TV sign language feature announced — MacRumors]

The first title is Being Heumann, the film about disability rights activist Judy Heumann, which begins streaming in the app on Friday with ASL and BSL interpretation available. Apple says interpretation is also coming for the movie F1, and for Way of the Warrior Kid and Greyhound later this year. [New Apple TV sign language feature announced — MacRumors]

The interpretation is a viewing option, not a replacement track: a signer appears on screen alongside the program when the viewer turns the option on. What Apple hasn't published is a catalog. Beyond the four named titles, there's no list of supported movies and shows yet, so the feature launches as a promise attached to a handful of releases rather than a library-wide capability. [New Apple TV sign language feature announced — MacRumors]

The conversation