The orange and green dots on an iPhone screen indicate that the iPhone is currently receiving external input. The orange dot indicates when the microphone is in use, either during a phone call or ...

The orange indicator turns on only when the microphone is being used by an app while the green indicator is for when the camera or both the camera and microphone are in use.

It looks like this: The orange dot feature won’t appear automatically. Instead, it will only work for those who install the new software package, iOS 14, on their phones.

More specifically, the orange dot on your iPhone shows that your phone’s microphone is on and currently recording. Sometimes this is just fine, but other times this may be cause for concern.