You might have noticed the green dot on your iPhone whenever you open apps like Camera,FaceTime, Scanner, etc. It also appears when using features like visual look-up, video calling,QR scan, and more.
If you haven’t guessed it already, thegreen dotbasically appears whenan application is using your camera. Sometimes, the app may also be using your microphone along with the camera.
Should You Be Worried?
There is no reason for you to worry about the green dot appearing on your iPhone. There are quite a lot of instances where an app on your iPhone may need to use the camera.
As soon as the app stops using the camera, it should stop showing the green dot. Furthermore, they usually only utilize the camera without saving anything.
iPhones offer pretty robust security, and it is improbable that anyone is spying on you using the camera.
If you still feel suspicious, you may check which specific app is using your camera. Here’s how to do so:
How to Remove the Green Dot?
As this is a security feature, you may’t stop the green dot from appearing when an app uses your camera. However, you may remove the green dot by stopping apps from using your camera.
To do so, close all the applications that are running in your background. If this doesn’t help, you may tryremoving camerapermission from apps that are using it.
If the green dot is still present in your status bar, then it probably isn’t an app using your camera. It is likely a software glitch, and you may forcerestart your iPhoneto clear it away.
For iPhone 8 and Newer
For iPhone 7 and Older
If the green dot is still present after restarting, then it may be a part of your wallpaper. ensure to check it out as a lot of users have fallen for this graphical error. It usually happenswhen you screenshota picture and use it as your background.
Lastly, you’ll sometimes see anorange dotinstead of the green one. The orange dot basically means an application is currently using your microphone.
