Indicators in status bar. What is a red dot?
now I know what the orange and green lights mean... what does a red light indicate?
iPhone XS Max, iOS 13
Yes, over the wifi status bars, as I've shown in the above picture.
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You have 2 completely separate issues. The dot (whatever color) has been explained several times in the thread you posted to and apparently didn’t read, but here is the summary:
- An Orange dot means the internal microphone is on. You will see it when you are on a phone call and not using a headset, or when using any app that uses the microphone (Siri, Zoom, WhatsApp, Signal, Skype, Telegram, Google Duo, FB Messenger, FaceTime, iMessage voice, Voice Recorder, Shazam, as well as any games that use the mic)
- A Red dot is an orange dot that looks red because it is on an black background
- A Green dot means that any camera is on
If your calls get disconnected you need to contact your carrier.
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This isn't the recording and it's clearly a red dot, not orange.
I’m having the same issue
Also I get discounted after a few min of being on the phone
Probably because until the number is dialed it doesn’t know whether the call will use one of the many apps that support video calls such as FaceTime.
My problem isn’t that the dot is red - it’s that my face doesn’t show when using FaceTime. I can’t see it and the recipient can’t see it. It says paused. I can see and hear them but they can SEE me.
Correction- They Can NOT see me
Actually you are incorrect. My entire area at the top and bottom of my screen is black and the letters are white. I keep getting 3 different colored dots RED, GREEN and ORANGE. The RED is in fact RED NOT ORANGE! The orange is orange and the RED IS RED! We are ALL seeing this with the exception of a few and WE ALL WANT TO KNOW WHY! Not to be told we are NOT actually seeing red because it is orange. I’m not color blind and the black background on my phone doesn’t change. I have it set up permanently like this. And recently my husband and myself have started seeing these 3 different colored dots. We’ve never noticed them before, but they are clearly here now.
This is what I’ve personally done and recommend this to anyone who has an issue with their privacy being violated. I’ve gone into my privacy settings and turned off all allowances for camera and microphone. If I need to use them on an app, I will turn it on at that time. So if I continue to see these dots, that’s going to be a real problem for me!
What “issue” is real? The fact that an orange (or red with some Accessibility settings) dot means that the microphone is on?
go to Settings/Accessibility/Display &Text Size and turn on Increase Contrast. The orange dot will appear red (if you compare carefully it is not the same red as the hang up button). Now turn the setting off and it will be Orange.
Lawrence Finch I doubt if you can help me since the red/orange dot is an indicator that the microphone is in use during FaceTime- which means the camera is not in use. You should be able to see the correlation. No green dot means no camera. The recipient of my face time can’t see me. My camera isn’t functioning the way it should with FaceTime. This just started happening. I haven’t changed any settings and any suggestions I found such as restart the app or my iPad have not solved the problem.
FYI - I did discover that the camera app will no longer flip so I can see my own face.
anyone have the same problem or suggestions to fix it?
Indicators in status bar. What is a red dot?