What the green dot on your iPhone means The green dot appears on your iPhone whenever an app is using your iPhone’s cameras.

If you own an iPhone, at some point you've definitely wondered, Why are my messages green? Aren’t they supposed to be blue?

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hence the whole green-bubble bias. We see the things we have as an extension of ourselves, perhaps especially our phones — it's where many people live a lot of their lives. iPhone bias probably ...