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Red microphone icon on iPhone

I have a microphone icon on the top left off my lock screen.

It is under my signal strength so it is not in the status bar.

Never saw it before

Anybody seen this?

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iPhone 6s, iOS 12

Posted on May 8, 2019 10:43 AM

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Randy-12

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Posted on May 8, 2019 11:01 AM

This was asked by someone back in February.

The fix they found was by turning off permissions one by one in Settings>Privacy>Microphone to see which app was putting the icon up. They never said which app it was.

The thread is here

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Red microphone icon on iPhone

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