Orange dot won't turn off on iPhone

I do know. For most of the people who have posted about this and they say they aren't running any apps they come back with they are on the phone. Which is an app and it uses the microphone. And if you open Control Center while the light is showing it will tell you which app is using the the microphone. How is this not knowing?

Yeah, I had that dot in every app I opened on my iPad in the middle of the menu bar.

I turned off "Listen for "Hey Siri"" in Settings -> Siri&Search and restarted my iPad. The orange dot is gone for now.

Not sure yet if the changing the setting or the restart or the combination of both fixed it.

You're making a call!

Wow, some of these people...🤬. So, I found this discussion because I was searching for the answer to this same issue. First, the dot was green. I had to Google what that was about, and the answer was that it was my camera being accessed by some app. I went to my phone’s Home Screen and touched the bottom of the screen and scrolled up to pull up this screen:

then I clicked on the camera icon. (I was just guessing). It worked, the green dot went away but instead I had an orange dot. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So I googled that. Microphone it says. As is what this discussion is now about. But when I followed the Internet directions - went to the control center, turned off access to the microphone for all Apps, it didn’t change anything. The orange dot was still there. Finally, with microphone permissions for all my Apps still turned off in the Control Center though, I shut my phone off, waited about 5 minutes and turned it back on. Then the orange dot was finally gone. Something is fishy about this crap. When I had opened the Control Center, it didn’t tell me which app was using or had recently been using my microphone, like the Internet said it would. There was no orange or green dot next to any app. And, from that phone screen I posted here, it also did not indicate at the top any app was using my microphone either. So, maybe some people’s Control Center or Home Screen show that crap but mine doesn’t. Not sure what model their phone is either but mine’s an 8plus.

Good luck to those of you in this situation. My orange dot is still off for now after turning my phone off and back on with all microphone permissions turned off in the Control Center - that’s what worked for me.

UPDATE.........

make sure the photo on your Home Screen or Lock Screen is not a snapshot with the Orange light in it.... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

My orange light is always on and it doesn’t show up in my control center. I’ve turned off so much stuff, and stopped use of my mic and camera in all apps. Should I just do a factory reset?

this happened to me, I closed all apps out and went into settings and turned all that off... it was still there. I turned my WiFi off (I was not on my home WiFi) and boom it went away! So I turned the WiFi back on and let it connect to whatever it did before and it looks like I wasn’t even actually on anyone’s WiFi but just having it turned on searching was giving someone access to my microphone.... try turning your WiFi off and see if it goes away

If you’re wearing headphones with a built in Microphone then that might be the case, as your iPhone will assume you’re using the microphone built into your headphones

Reset all settings

If it is not telling you what app is using it in Control Center then you have other problems with your device. You might want to consider restoring your iPhone from your backup and if that doesn't work click on the Contact Support link at the top right of this page.

Do you mean it is on when you are viewing the Home Screen, when texting, when you are reading email, when you are web browsing, when you are playing games? Or only when you are on a phone call, when the microphone has to be on so the other person can here you?

if it is truly on all the time for all of those activities, then it is probably in your wallpaper image, and is not on at all.

When you see the dot open the Control Center and it will display the name of the app at the top. Had you been using Siri, which uses the microphone?

Try turning your WiFi off... that’s what solved mine

open Control Center and see what app is using it.

Do a forced restart on your iPhone.

turning my phone off and on cleared this up.