Forgive me if it’s been discussed. After searching various ways I was unable to find any discussion of this.

Just noticed the iOS orange light in the Dynamic Island was lit on my iPhone. Looking at Control Center to see which app was using it and it says “unknown.”

Anyone else heard about this happening?

Privacy and Apple don’t often mix…

It could be the keyboard you use, if you’ve activated STT recently, or an app has been installed secretly by another app.

Edit: Found discussions on Apple.com:

  1. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255504146
  2. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254804172

Three potential fixes courtesy of Reddit:

Restart your phone, so if it’s malware it will be able to hide. Yesh, makesh shenshe.

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