With the new update of Apple's operating system, iOS 14, several new features have been introduced: among these, you may have noticed the appearance of an orange or green dot in the bar at the top of the screen, the one where the data connection icon is located. , time and battery status. What do those dots mean?
When the green light next to the camera turns on on Macs, it means that the computer is using the same camera: since there is no light on the iPhone, Apple has decided to reproduce it on the screen, to warn the user when he is using the camera. or the microphone. The green dot appears when we use the first, the orange light appears when we use the second. For example, if we are talking to Siri or sending an audio, the orange light will turn on, while when we take a selfie the green one will appear.
The novelty was introduced by Apple to protect user privacy: in fact, if we notice the appearance of one of the two dots when we are not actively using neither microphone nor camera, it means that an app has access to the data of one of the two. In that case, the 9to5Mac site recommends contacting the developers of the app in question: to identify which one it is, just pull down the drop-down menu.
