Red dot on I phone when making calls ?

Greetings, denalirfg.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. It’s understandable that you’d want to know what the dot is that you see while one calls. 

“An orange indicator  means the microphone is being used by an app on your iPhone.” Status icons and symbols on your iPhone

We hope this helps. 

All the best. 

It is there any time a microphone on the phone is on. When you are on a phone call there is a microphone on; if there wasn’t then the person on the other end of the call wouldn’t be able to hear you. You can test this the next time you are on a call; press the Mute button and watch it go out.

Similarly, whenever the camera is on there will be a green dot. You can try that also.

You can see which app is using the microphone by opening the Control Center (drag down from the upper right corner of the screen). it will display the name of the app using the mic or camera while it is in use and for a short while after that use is finished.

Look at my post above yours. The red dot (it’s actually an orange dot that looks red with some backgrounds) means the microphone is on. That’s all it means. To test it tap the Mute button on the phone screen. If the microphone isn’t on it would be rather hard to have a phone conversation, wouldn’t it?

Red = mic being used

Green = mic and camera being used.

Have it your way. Its red. But it still just means that the microphone is on.

A few minutes after my post, I called a friend to see if she could hear me on the other line and could. So, then I called the restaurant that could not hear me previously, and now they could hear me. So it fixed itself. Bizarre.

Thanks anyways,

Maria

I noticed too during calls :-). Little cool thing...

I have it too. It’s definitely not orange.

Well, actually it is, but the black background darkens it. Compare it to the red hang up button.

looks the same color to me...

I have a red dot on my phone when I call or someone calls me does any one know why?

People can't hear me on the other line when making calls! Please help me - walk me through fixing this problem.

Maria

All my Apple devices have red dot when making calls or FaceTime.

That's correct.

Blayzed1 wrote:

All my Apple devices have red dot when making calls or FaceTime.

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