The dot of light at the top of your phone tells a surprising amount.
You can monitor the phone’s security yourself and you can also adjust the settings. Illustration picture. Lars Hagberg / Alamy Stock Photo
Most iPhones have a clever privacy feature that often goes unnoticed. Top status bar the background of the clock time and a small orange or green light tell a surprising amount about what is happening on the phone.
Small lights
The small lights at the top glow either green or orange. The orange light tells the user that one of the phone’s applications is using the microphone. Again, the green light indicates that one of the applications is using the phone’s camera.
A small light can be seen in the upper right corner, which may glow orange or green. Screenshot from Apple’s website.
Many social media applications use a camera if you want to take a selfie or video, for example. In this case, it is of course completely understandable that the phone uses a camera and a microphone.
However, alarm bells should start ringing if a calculator or other application that doesn’t need a camera starts using your camera.
Clock background color
The background color of the clock time can also change. In addition to the normal background, the clock’s background color can change to blue, red, green or purple.
The blue color indicates that the phone is using your location data. In many taxi applications or navigation, this is necessary.
If the iPhone is sharing an internet connection, in other words “hotspotting” or making a call, the background of the watch turns green. By sharing the network connection, you can connect, for example, your laptop to the phone’s network.
The red color indicates recording of sound or screen events. The iPhone usually has a voice recorder installed as standard, but if the red color pops up in connection with another application, then you should find out why this is happening.
If you want to watch videos with a friend via video call, for example, you can share them using SharePlay. In this case, the color of the clock changes to purple.
Fix privacy settings
Many applications require access to various features upon activation and ask permission for this. Often these can be made pink with enthusiasm just by clicking accepted without even thinking about it.
In the application’s settings, you can find which features the application uses. Jani Ahosola
If you want to modify privacy settings, for example, which features (for example, camera or microphone) which application has access to, go to your iPhone’s settings and scroll down the menu. In this case, every application that is installed on your phone will be received.
By clicking on the application’s icon, you can see which features the application has access to. If you want, you can click them off.
On the iPhone, it is also possible to request a privacy report, which tells you which applications have used your camera and microphone. You can find the data protection report in the phone’s data protection and security settings.
It has also been reported The Sun.