Green camera indicator light when unlocking iPhone

Sometimes when I unlock my phone, I noticed that the green indicator light comes on and when I swipe down, it says camera Used recently. I figured that I was just swiping a little bit to the left and opening the camera app by mistake, but I have been pretty careful about it and sometimes the indicator still comes on. It’s probably not being used by one of my apps either because it would say what app recently used camera, but it just says camera app recently used. Does Face ID sometimes activate the camera app? I’m using an iPhone 16 Pro Max.



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iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Jul 15, 2025 3:04 PM

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Jul 17, 2025 10:45 AM in response to Karcus223

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Sometimes when I unlock my phone, I noticed that the green indicator light comes on and when I swipe down, it says camera Used recently. I figured that I was just swiping a little bit to the left and opening the camera app by mistake, but I have been pretty careful about it and sometimes the indicator still comes on. It’s probably not being used by one of my apps either because it would say what app recently used camera, but it just says camera app recently used. Does Face ID sometimes activate the camera app? I’m using an iPhone 16 Pro Max.


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