Yes! Just as there is for the camera, there should be a hardware indicator for the microphone (perhaps enabled by software for an external mic; ditto for an ext

Yes! Just as there is for the camera, there should be a hardware indicator for the microphone (perhaps enabled by software for an external mic; ditto for an external webcam.) One of the best features on Macs for the past couple of decades has been the small green light. They should add this, as hardware, to iPhones and iPads. Software dots on the status bar indicate to me that the OS people view it as a key issue but the hardware folk haven't caught up to the issue yet.