The best thing to do if you’re not sure which app it is is to close it until the dot disappears.
If it doesn’t work, turn the phone off. If the orange dot is still there when you turn it back on, you should start to worry.
While there are some concerns, wouldn’t it be better to have some sort of visual cue when an app on your phone is using the microphone or camera, rather than none at all?
To be clear, if you see an orange dot at the top of your phone’s screen, it means that one of the apps on your iPhone is currently using the microphone, which means it is recording your voice.
The presence of a green dot in the same place on the screen indicates that the app is using the phone’s camera and not the microphone.
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