An early version of Apple’s major iPhone software update, iOS 14, have been seeing an unexpected notification that Instagram is accessing their camera even when they’re not taking photos.
The iOS 14 update shows a green dot at the top of users’ screens when an app is accessing the camera or microphone. One person noted on Twitter that the notification appeared while they were scrolling their Instagram feed without any camera open.
A spokesperson for Facebook said in a statement that the notifications were caused by a bug which is being fixed by the company.
The spokesperson also said that just because people saw the notification doesn’t mean Instagram was actually accessing their camera.
“We only access your camera when you tell us to – for example when you swipe from Feed to Camera. We found and are fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren’t. We do not access your camera in those instances, and no content is recorded,” the spokesperson said.