White circle appears on screen after iOS update

Try this:

1. Open Settings
2. Select Accessibility
3. Select Read & Speak
4. Tap Speak Screen
5. Find Show Controller
6. Turn it OFF

Mella12 wrote:

There is white circle on my screen after the most recent IOS update of this week. It is for certain not assistivetouch.

Have you tried force restarting your phone?

Restart an unresponsive iPhone - Apple Support

If it's just a display glitch, that might fix it.

It almost looks like AssistiveTouch but it's not the right color (it's black on my iPhone using iOS 26.7.1). It could be a mouse pointer (How to use a pointer device with AssistiveTouch on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support) but I don't know many people using one on an iPhone (it's more common for iPads.)

1. Do you see the circle on all the pages of the Gome Screen or just in the App Library?
2. Can you move the circle?
3. Can you tap the circle to see what it does?

Yes, the white circle is visible on all screens.

I can move it- up, down, across, etc

it doesn’t do anything when I tap it or press on it.

I haven’t tried to do a force restart yet, but I will to see if it goes away.

Could you post a screenshot? Beside AssistiveTouch I don't know what this could be.

Certainly. Below is the image.

6x6 ~ At the top of the circle, notice a smaller, whiter ellipse (it's not the folder panel showing thru.) ...Could that be a clue?

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assistive touch?

this is the extreme example from an Apple article.

That button is completely moveable.

Hi Alancito, I see what you mean. It looks like a Liquid Glass (3D) artifact. Could it be some sort of magnifying glass (even though it's not transparent enough)?

6x6 wrote: "...Could it be some sort of magnifying glass (even though it's not transparent enough)?"

Dunno. To be clearer, I filled in the small ellipse with red:

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Thank you. That totally worked.