Why do orange dots appear on the screen of iPhones?

If you use an iPhone, have you ever wondered why an orange or orange dot appears on its screen several times?

This orange dot occurs above the lines indicating phone coverage.

Its purpose is to inform you of an important detail of a device, but most people don’t know its purpose.

If you don’t know its purpose, know that it appears on the screen when an app uses the device’s microphone.

This privacy feature was introduced by Apple with iOS 14.

In iPhone, this orange dot will appear when you use YouTube or other similar apps that need access to the microphone to function.

Similarly, this orange dot is visible while making phone calls or using voice-to-text service.

Many times a green dot appears on the iPhone screen and that too in the same place where the orange dot is.

This colored dot appears when the camera is accessed by an app or while using the camera app, FaceTime and all video recording apps.

If you want to see which app caused the orange dot to appear, you can swipe down from the top to see which apps are using the microphone.