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Cornflakesla

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Sep 22, 2021
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Hi, I've been noticing the green camera active dot in the island keeps coming on, but I'm not using anything that would use the camera. It's not consistent but I've noticed it coming on especially if I'm using Instagram (just scrolling), and then swipe up to return to the Home Screen. The green camera dot would come on, and then turn turn off in about 3 seconds. This doesn't happen every time, but frequently enough that I'm able to witness it happen.

I also was just reading an email in Gmail, then went to the home screen, and the green dot came on.

In both situations, there was nothing that would use the camera (not posting a photo in Instagram or anything).

When I swipe down from the upper right corner, I see it is the Camera app that's using the camera when the green dot appears. But the Camera app is not open, nor was it open recently.

Is this normal behavior?

I'm running iOS 26.1, on iPhone 17 Pro Max. Thank you.
 
I have the camera and microphone disabled for Instagram because I noticed this issue years ago, like when I had an iPhone 8.
It already felt like Instagram was spying on me...
 
It’s not Instagram… it happens when I exit other apps too. Attaching screenshots of what the control center says is using the camera…
 

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