A green dot appears on the phone screen?


Have you ever seen a green dot on your laptop screen next to the camera or in the upper right corner of your smartphone screen ? This is a privacy related feature. Talking about smartphones, this feature has been added since the 12th version of Android.

This green dot appears on the screen whenever our device's camera or microphone or both are in use. If you turn on the camera itself, you will see the camera icon on the green background for a second or two in the right corner and then it will turn into a tiny green dot. The same happens when using a microphone. If there is any malware in our phone, it can turn on the camera or microphone or both in the background. So something else may be running on the phone screen or it may appear to be off but the phone's camera or microphone may be capturing what it sees/hears! Green Dot lets us know if something like this is going on.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Solar Flare Strom: Earth may be in the path of solar flares, NASA warns

World Asteroid Day 2020: Why is this day celebrated today?

The first case of death due to bird flu in the country

The oldest galaxies discovered by the Webb Telescope are estimated to be 13 billion years old

Amazing conjunction of Moon and Venus seen in the sky, NASA shared information

After Instagram-WhatsApp now also channels in Facebook-Messenger

NASA's Artemis-1 launch in trouble again, mission hit after fuel leakage

Satellite toll system' will be implemented at toll plazas, vehicles will not need to stop: Nitin Gadkari

Start using passkey instead of password in Chrome browser!

If you are using Google Chrome browser, be careful, the government has announced an alert