Can I remove the orange dot after iOS 14 update?

Read this entire thread and you will find out that you can't and that it is just telling you the microphone is turned on. If you open Control Center it will tell you what app is using it. No one is recording you.

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The issue that you describe has nothing to do with this thread about the orange dot indicator about the microphone. That has nothing to do with the ability to receive or make a phone call. All that you are seeing is an indicator when the microphone is live. There is no way to remove it, and it is not an app recording your phone call. There is no app on the iPhone that can record your phone call. If you are unable to call out, you need to contact your cellular provider to check that out. See this for other troubleshooting steps if you are unable to make a call. It also addressing receiving a call. If you can't make or receive calls on your iPhone - Apple Support

You can’t remove it. It shows you that your microphone is in use. You can’t turn it off.

Status icons and symbols on your iPhone - Apple Support

The orange dot has to be on when you make calls or the microphone wouldn’t work for you to make that call. If the microphone isn’t on the person on the other end wouldn’t be able to hear you.

I removed all microphone permissions to apps and still shows The orange dot when on a call. However, while on the call you mute your mic the orange light goes off. That goes to show “allegedly” that the light is just an indication that the mic is on at that very moment.

whether is apple is recording your conversation or not is yet to be determined...

Dama2552 wrote:

Because It is a violation of privacy! Would be like a flashlight being shined through your window at home but you can’t see the person shining it. It is still there!

So, it's a violation of your privacy for Apple to warn you that someone may be violating your privacy?

Once again, all the light does is tell you that something is happening (mic is in use). That same thing has always happened when you've used your phone, you just weren't warned about it before. It's rather like the light you see on your car's dashboard that lets you know your headlights or high beams are on. You could, in theory, disable that notification light but, if you turned on your car's headlights, they'd still come on. You just wouldn't see the notification.

Hard reset did it for me:

(Vol up, vol down, hold home button).

Power up again & orange “light”’has gone.

Until you go to use the microphone again.

Why is it terrible? Why would the presence of a light indicate something is being recorded?

Siri uses the microphone, thus it will show the orange light

The phone uses the microphone, thus it will show the light.

Pumukel wrote:

I removed all microphone permissions to apps and still shows The orange dot when on a call. However, while on the call you mute your mic the orange light goes off. That goes to show “allegedly” that the light is just an indication that the mic is on at that very moment.

whether is apple is recording your conversation or not is yet to be determined...

I have an idea. If you are that worried that Apple is recording your conversations, don’t make phone calls with your phone, or better still, buy a flip phone.

My phone doesnt recieve calls

Please can someone tell me how to remove the orange dot at the top left corner of my phone. I don't like the idea of my calls possibly being recorder and don't see any app on my phone that has access to my microphone other than Siri. This is terrible!

Pumukel wrote:

whether is apple is recording your conversation or not is yet to be determined...

Apple isn’t recording anything, but the NSA is. Quite possible your local police are too, if they are deploying a Stingray near you.

deggie wrote:

And of course the most likely suspect is the cell service provider.

I don't think that cellular carriers actually record the content of calls. Obviously, they have location, time, duration, date, caller and recipient information.

deggie wrote:

They don’t, but they can easily do so...far easier than Apple could. And only one cell provider I know of saves the text of text messages.

I can't for the life of me figure out why people are jumping to the conclusion that the organ dot means something is being recorded. Or are surprised the making a phone call uses the microphone. We live in strange times.