Orange dot won't turn off on iPhone

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.

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

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

Can you post a picture of your lock screen and your home screen? When you open Control Center what does it show as using your microphone?

I have had the same problem. I found you can open the Control Centre when the orange dot appears and it will tell you which app is using the microphone or video whilst in a call or attempting a call. I too had turned off privacy and denied access to all apps before finding the app responsible for the Orange Dot. I found out the orange dot is on when making a phone call because the Phone Application itself is utilising the microphone. It is all a waste of time because the orange dot will Always be on the screen of the Phone App is always utilising the microphone. It’s a shame because people like using Apple products because they are secure and user friendly, but now they are complicating it with android-like interfaces that are complicating things with more choices.. Hope this helped...

Some app is using the microphone if the orange dot is on. Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Duo, Google Voice, Facebook Messenger, Signal, FaceTime, Siri, Voice Recorder, Speech to Text, Shazam are all candidates.

NO ONE IS INVADING YOUR PRIVACY! If the orange dot is on a mic is on, and when you see it on just open the Control Center and it will show which app is using the microphone. Green means the camera is on.

Just mute the microphone and it will disable the orange light. If you use the switches in control center it only turns off WiFi and BT until the next morning. Go to Settings or use Siri to permanently turn it off.

Please post a screen shot. There is no yellow dot in any of Apple’s notifications. And the orange dot showing that the microphone is on does not appear in the upper right, it appears over the signal strength bars right next to the Face ID notch.

When SPECIFICALLY do you see the dot? If you press the HOME button do you see it? If you open the Calendar app do you see it? What about the Contacts app? The Settings app? What app is open when you see it?