Any time an app access your microphone, a little amber dot will appear in the status bar, over by where the Wi-Fi and cellular connection symbols are.
When an app access the camera, a green dot will appear.
These are fairly universally understood as “recording” lights and they will clearly point out when an app you’re using is accessing the camera or microphone at times it shouldn’t.
Just since the release
of the iOS 14 beta, the lights have already revealed sketchy behavior
in several apps that have gone on to promise updates to fix the “bugs.” (good word to use)
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