Orange dot won't turn off on iPhone

couvf150 wrote:

. I don’t like Big Brother or Big Tech spying on me & u shouldn’t either😡

Well now that Apple has given you a visual indicator of Big Brother watching and listening, you are ahead of the game.

Dude stop trolling. She’s saying she’s not using anything and the dots still there. So stop.

to the person who made the question, I’m in the same boat. I’d also like to figure that out bc of the light is on then it SHOULD say what is using it. So to see nothing but see the indicator that says something is using it is somewhat unsettling even if it’s not “malicious” bc it shows something is at least hiding & I don’t like that especially if I can discern what that is that is hiding & listening/using my mic 👀

I feel like Apple is becoming very instructive. All these features your implanting with no ability to disable them. Wifi is well. It just randomly turns it self on and the bluetooth. Im starting to grow weary about them. they just had a chinese keyboard on our phones last year. just weird

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.

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?

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.

Twist120 wrote:

I want the orange light off

Well, that is ridiculously easy to accomplish: simply do not use anything that makes use of the microphone. While this action would severely limit the capabilities of a device used for talking to people, at least the orange dot would be gone.

By all means smash your phone and get a Galaxy! It has the huge advantage that when there is spyware on it you will have no way of knowing. And no one here in this user to user forum cares how you waste your money.

btw, it says “unknown” because another app ran after the one that used the mic. But you probably know which app it was because you used it for a phone call, WhatsApp, telegram, FaceTime or similar.

jazzah176 wrote:

Did you find a solution? The orange dot keeps showing when my iPhone screen is locked but not when I open the iPhone it won’t go away I’ve tried everything

Might it be on your wallpaper image?

I’ve been looking for the last 2 weeks as I couldn’t understand why mine was on all the time (it really irritated me) and it didn’t show anything on the control centre. I rebooted my phone, denied access to mic on everything and still nothing. Powered down for 5 minutes and still no change. This is probably around the 15th thread I’ve read about this and your comment literally gave me a facepalm moment 🤦🏻‍♀️ It was my wallpaper... Something so simple yet something I’d never even thought about or something anyone else thought to mention. Thank you for relieving my frustration!

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

That is so unlikely I’d say it was impossible. Are you sure the dot isn’t on your wallpaper? If you see the dot when making a phone call that is essential, because you can’t make a call without the microphone being on.

Yes IK... but it comes on when using for just about anything. And I guess my concern is it just started happening g.. was never there when I first got my phone so I bought into the fact that it’s unwanted listening /spying? Without my permission. But it sounds like you’re saying it has to come on when making a phone call... which would make sense if it didn’t come on in other situations? It’s all good... I appreciate everyone’s input! Ty!

The orange dot came with iOS14 so no-one had it before then. It’s just a light to tell you that the mic is on. The mic was always on before when it needed to be. The only new thing that’s happened is that there’s now an orange dot to tell you that the mic is in use.

So you aren't actually getting an orange dot? Are you getting a green dot? That would be the camera and if you used it before you let the iPhone go to sleep it may be lit up briefly and then will be gone.