HT204370 Do movies have closed captions to view on TV or IPad?

I need closed captions because of hearing problem

Hi pereanver
iPad can show movies or television shows with Closed Captions (CC) for us being hearing impaired, but you have to understand that not all movies or TV shows on iTunes have CC. Most of them do, but not all of it.
There are far more DVDs with subtitles for the hearing impaired than there are on iTunes, of course maybe Apple could replace movies that do not have CC with ones that now do have CC, but Apple and iTunes are rather kind of a step backwards against that of DVDs and Blu-Rays.
In iTunes, just click or tap on a movie you are interested in, to go to the page about this movie, then look for CC next or  below the title, often usually next to the age cert/rating.
For example:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
12  CC
Back to the Future
PG  CC
Just look for the CC logo.

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