green dot at top right corner of screen

I have finally found a solution without restart.

Problem:

• The OS has two different dot types. One for full screen and one for non-full Screen.
• When switching or ending a Video Call from full screen to normal screen, the OS tries to remove the wrong dot

Solution:

• For me, it was easily removable after I opened an MS Teams video call in full screen and then switched to normal screen via the green minimize icon. FaceTime does not work, as I can't make it to a real full screen.

Thanks for your comment. You just solved my problem. You can use Photo Booth to go fullscreen and then exit out to remove the dot.

i just got exactly this after being in a zoom meeting with the zoom app for macos. kinda freaky that the green dot doesn't go away even though every app i have is closed down. might it be a bug?

Actually, when I do printscreen, it is not there... :( weird, but it is there...

this is printscreen (cmd shift 4)

And this is taken by my phone...

I have the same or a similar problem, the dot doesn't show on a screen shot but I can cover it with my mouse pointer. It resolved it self after a reboot though.

I also found it after a zoom meeting. I don't do many zoom meetings. Per another comment, I'll reboot however I'd like to be assured that Apple will address this small problem. So I've been told these are in response to the camera functioning while idle. If so, we have a problem.

(Houston was taken, sorry for my bad humor - although the problem is real).

Mackbook Pro

M1

Sonoma 14.2.1

I'm seeing the very exact same thing. Not in screenshot, but can cover it up with mouse pointer. Over a couple of reboots, too.

Nateu wrote:

I have the same or a similar problem, the dot doesn't show on a screen shot but I can cover it with my mouse pointer. It resolved it self after a reboot though.

Check with Apple Support, as that seems a graphics bug or a display hardware problem.

Here are the usual colored-indicator displays, and how to review the related activity:

Use Control Center on Mac - Apple Support

(It’s also possible that this is a stuck pixel or a graphics bug, depending on the details. If it doesn’t show in a screenshot, it’s probably either a bug or a stuck pixel.)

To remove the fake McAfee notification, see the Safari section available here:

https://www.mcafee.com/support/?page=shell&shell=article-view&articleId=TS102999&locale=en-US

You were offered notifications from some website, and accepted those, and here we are. To prevent websitea drom prompting dor notifications, select the Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifictions option as mentioned at the McAfee website.

Mac can get malware, and macOS includes built-in malware scanning and removal tools, but most of the dreck around is user-installed adware and such. Viruses, specifically, are pretty rare everywhere on all platforms, these days.

You’ll need to poke around with what’s installed, probably with the process of elimination.

It’s possible this is a bug with the control center camera or microphone indicator placement within macOS itself, too.

Is the camera active? Does this icon shift when the camera is active? Microphone?

Does updating macOS to current, and booting through Safe Mode, clear this?

ElonWeHaveAProblem wrote:

I also found it after a zoom meeting. I don't do many zoom meetings. Per another comment, I'll reboot however I'd like to be assured that Apple will address this small problem. So I've been told these are in response to the camera functioning while idle...

If you can reliably cause this with Zoom, send some feedback with a reproducer directly to Apple:

… Product Feedback - Apple

Zoom probably needs to fix this too, but whatever Apple frameworks are active here are not working as they should.

javaone wrote:

I'm seeing the very exact same thing. Not in screenshot, but can cover it up with mouse pointer. Over a couple of reboots, too.

Potentially an obvious question, but is the dot in the wallpaper? (I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "cover it up with the mouse pointer"—maybe the dot size, or does the artifact disappear when the cursor is in that position?)

It's the last thing,.. so for me the dot always is somewhere in the menu bar. when I hover my mouse over the position that the dot is in it's hidden from view. aka no dead pixel or anything hardware related. What is happening (and this might be a side effect of some software combination) is that de dot is somehow replicated from when I'm online. For some reason the dot only get's copied from the menu bar with the video indicator, it the same size and colour. the black part of the icon isn't copied. After a reboot (where I always close all applications) it's gone. It came back maybe twice now.

One of the pieces of software I installed recently before updating to Sonoma was Bartender. Might be related might not be.. figured I'd add it in case others are also using similar or the same software.

it appeared to me after I used the iPhone as camera (Continuity) when browsing through macOS Ventura features. additionally when opening control center the Video Effects module was green and enabled. went away after restart.

Ill had the same problem. I then noticed a green dot next to my Control Center icon in the taskbar at the top of the screen. I clicked on Control Center and it told me that a piece of software was using my microphone. I close that programme and the dot disappeared.