Apple phones recording all your phone conversations by an indicator of an orange light in the upper right corner? A green camera in the upper right hand corner if sending a photo? Why this invasion of privacy?

Status icons and symbols on your iPhone

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207354

If you see orange or green indicators in the status bar 

With iOS 14, you might see an orange or green indicator in the status bar on your iPhone. These indicators appear when the microphone and/or camera are being used by an app.

An orange indicator  means the microphone is being used by an app on your iPhone.

A green indicator  means either the camera or the camera and the microphone are being used by an app on your iPhone.

Hello Tina,

Either you have gotten this figured out all wrong or you have been supplied with some bad information.

Orange Dot Indicator - Microphone is in use by an app or a process

Green Dot Indicator - Camera is in use by an app or a process

That is all there is to it. Those dots appear to INFORM YOU that your microphone and/or camera is in use so that YOU ARE AWARE. If you feel that the Microphone or Camera should not have been in use, at any give time, then you can immediately take action. This is an awareness feature only. Apple is not recording your phone calls or taking your photos/videos. Quite to the contrary.

When you make a call then you will see the Orange dot to tell you that the microphone is in use. Just making you aware.

Axel F.

The green and the orange display that the camera is active and the microphone is active, respectively, and not that there is recording happening. There might be. Or there might not.

When you make a telephone call, you listen to the speaker, and you speak into the microphone. The orange indicator will be displayed, as the microphone is active/hot/listening/in-use. Whether that telephone call is or is not being recorded is a completely different matter. Rephrased, r]the phone app inherently uses the microphone, and that means the orange indicator will be displayed. That doesn’t mean you’re being recorded. Or not being recorded. The other party in a call csn record the call, discussions of the legality or ethics of recording telephone calls aside.

The orange indicator is sometimes shows as red, depending on the contrast between the orange color and the current screen background.

Official info: Status icons and symbols on your iPhone - Apple Support

I’d suggest finding better sources or information, too. Or do please share your source of information here, so that we might check for more comedy.

TinaKontheroad wrote:

Found the info by way of Siri

So, you're saying that Siri told you Apple is recording all of your conversations? What question did you ask to get this answer?

What "Siri info" do you mean?

As other people have pointed out, you're mistaken. All the orange dot means is that the mic is live. Make a phone call. You'll see the orange dot. Put the call on mute. You'll see the dot go away. Take it off mute and the dot will come back.

Control access to hardware features on iPhone

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/iphone/iph168c4bbd5/ios

Before apps use the camera or microphone on your iPhone, they’re required to request your permission and explain why they’re asking. For example, a social networking app may ask to use your camera so that you can take and upload pictures to that app. Apps are similarly required to request your permission to use various other hardware features, including Bluetooth connectivity, motion and fitness sensors, and devices on your local network.

You can review which apps have requested access to these hardware features, and you can change their access at your discretion.

TinaKontheroad wrote:

A lot of info how our phones at times listen and record. Sorry, but I don’t find that as comedy at all. Check out Siri info yourself.

iPhone and iPad allow locally-processed recognition of a trigger phrase. Optionally. No recording, there. No remote connection for Siri, either. With the trigger heard or with the trigger pressed, Siri activates and announces and connects to Apple, and offers service. If you prefer Siri to trigger by button-press and not by voice, select that. If you don't want Siri available at all, disable it.

No and no. Where do people find all these ridiculous conspiracy theories?

I got my last one in a box of Lucky Charms.

Nope. Can't happen. Ask your QAnon friends because they know.