Inside Live Translation on FaceTime on iOS 26

After a few years of rumors about the feature, Apple added live translated captions to FaceTime in iOS 26, allowing one-on-one calls to display real-time subtitles spanning languages. Here's where to find live translation in FaceTime, and how it came to be. FaceTime Live translation in FaceTime is a big new feature, but many users don't even know it's there.