Red or Orange dot on screen

[fcousa]

Hey, what do we know about this dots?

 

[chabig]

They are privacy indicators to let you know when the microphone or camera are enabled.

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[StumpyBloke]

Well we know this question has been asked thousands of times. We also know this question has been answered thousands of times

It indicates that your mic (orange) and/ or camera (green) are being used

Edit: chabig got there just before me

Edit 2: corrected my slow-moment error

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Here’s a thread:

Those little dots that show up when you’re in a call

The orange dot by the battery icon during a phone call (even though the status bar still turns green, as before); The green dot by the battery icon during a FaceTime call (even though... same as above); And, especially, the tiny green dot in the upper-right–most pixel of the screen during a...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[fcousa]

Thanks for the info.

 

[adrianlondon]

Well we know this question has been asked thousands of times. We also know this question has been answered thousands of times

It indicates that your mic (green) and/ or camera (orange) are being used

Asked and answered many times before, and you still get it wrong 🙂

green dot = video / camera
orange dot = audio / microphone

 

[StumpyBloke]

Asked and answered many times before, and you still get it wrong 🙂

green dot = video / camera
orange dot = audio / microphone

And the embarrassing thing is I even checked beforehand to make sure I was right, and I still got it wrong

 

[arn]

If you see green, you are on screen.