You might want to exercise caution if you’re occupied with whatever it is you do to drain the battery on your iPhone and you notice an orange dot on the screen.

Given the variety of functions available on phones, it makes logical sense to provide users with a means of learning topics they may not be aware of but still need to comprehend.

The purpose of the orange dot is to inform you something, but depending on what you’re doing, it may be a harmless message or something much darker.

Put simply, that orange dot indicates that an app is using the phone’s microphone, and there are many situations in which that is entirely OK.