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The iPhone User Guide website, by the way, details how to allow or deny microphone access to individual apps.

The meaning of having an orange dot appear on your iPhone screen is simply that an app is using the microphone. However, that fact hasn't stopped some social media users from posting alarmist rumors about the helpful feature.With iOS 14 or later, an orange dot, an orange square, or a green dot indicates when the microphone or camera is being used by an app.This indicator appears as an orange square if the Differentiate Without Color setting is on.

For example, Instagram user @thenewjerseyshade made this sort of claim in a video that was posted on Nov. 1, 2022.If you see this orange dot on your iPhone, you need to get help seriously, and fast. If you see an orange dot like this one on the top of your iPhone, this means someone is listening to you. It's been recently all over the news and in fact the orange dot is a warning sign from Apple that someone is using your microphone without your permission.

New Jersey Shade claimed that users who see an orange dot on their iPhone screen need"to get help seriously, and fast." However, that seems to have been a bit of an alarmist take. If users see the orange dot show up on their iPhone screen, it likely just means that an app has access to the microphone, perhaps in the background. This access to the microphone can easily be disabled on an app-by-app basis.provides details on how to allow or deny microphone access to individual apps.

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