I have an orange dot floating in the top-right corner of my display.
I believe that means that a program is using my microphone. Clicking on the dot doesn’t do anything, hovering the dot doesn’t do anything.
But none of the programs in Preferences > Security & Privacy > Microphone are running, and I’ve even tried disabling them all but the orange dot didn’t disapppear.
I’ve even installed OverSight as this question and answer suggest (because OverSight is the free option out of OverSight and Micro Snitch), but OverSight didn’t identify anything.
OverSight was working: I opened QuickTime to record a movie, and OverSight correctly identified that QuickTime was using the microphone. But when I closed QuickTime, OverSight reports that nothing is using the microphone, even though the orange dot persists.
When quicktime is open, the orange dot was on the control center tray:
When I quit QuickTime, the orange dot moves to the corner of the monitor and floats on top of everything all the time (even full-screen apps):
Here’s a gif of what happens to the orange dot when I open and quit quicktime, there’s a smooth animation between the two orange dot states:
I’ve checked Activity Monitor results for “audio”, deleted a couple drivers (Zoom’s and MSTeams’ — apps which had long ago been deleted themselves) from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL, but nothing is getting rid of the dot.
How can I find out what is causing the orange omnidot?
I’m hoping there will be a deep command line or private framework that might reveal the mystery.