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Apple TV has launched a built-in Sign Language Interpretation feature that viewers can turn on for supported titles, starting with the release of the biopic "Being Heumann" on Friday, the company announced on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. An interpreter appears in the bottom right of the screen, translating spoken words into signs. Apple said the feature will initially cover a limited set of titles, with American Sign Language and British Sign Language available for the film F1, and other titles including "Way of the Warrior Kid" and "Greyhound" to follow later this year. The option is not a separate version of a film. It is a setting integrated with the main title, similar to closed captions, and it is enabled through a new sign language option in Settings in the latest iOS 27.2 release. Apple said it worked with a group of Directors of Artistic Sign Language to make each interpreter fit the tone of its film, and that it is not using AI-generated interpreters because it said the Deaf community has not asked for them. Supported titles carry a sign language icon and a languages listing, and Apple TV will feature them in a "Movies & Shows with American Sign Language" collection. Apple's Sarah Herrlinger said the feature makes viewing more accessible and inclusive for Deaf audiences.