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=== Assistant: I get why your brain goes there — weird, moving, not in screenshots feels “interactive.” But the behavior you’ve alread… ===
I get why your brain goes there — weird, moving, not in screenshots feels “interactive.” But the behavior you’ve already tested doesn’t match a motion detector at all.

===== A motion detector would require sensor input (camera/IR/LiDAR/accelerometer) and then software would have to draw something in response. If software draws it, it will show up in at least one of: =====
* a screenshot
* a screen recording

You’ve got the opposite: it vanishes from captures and resets on rotation. That points away from sensors and toward the display pipeline.

Also: a motion detector wouldn’t make little “inverted-color O-sized bubbles.” That’s a display artifact pattern.

===== What feels like “it reacts to motion” can be explained by: =====
* rotation / UI redraw temporarily clearing it
* content changing making it look like it’s tracking
* your hands/angle/lighting changing perceived contrast
* the display controller re-entering the bad state after a reset

===== These are simple and decisive: =====
# Turn on Airplane Mode + disable Wi-Fi + disable Bluetooth
* If it’s a “detector” tied to comms/sensors, you’d expect changes.
* A display artifact will keep doing the same thing.
# Cover the front camera completely (tape or your finger) and then reproduce the effect
* If it were camera/sensor-driven, behavior should change.
* Display artifacts won’t care.

(Neither of those require you to trust me—just physics.)

===== If you want to move from “theory” to “proof,” the best proof you can collect is: =====
* A short video filmed from another device showing the dots while you rotate the phone and they disappear/reappear.

If you don’t have another phone, a workaround is:
* set the iPhone to record with back camera video in a mirror (so it films the screen) — not perfect, but sometimes works.

If you tell me what iPhone model you’re on (looks like iPhone 12,8 earlier), I can give you the shortest path to either:
* make it stop (settings + reset sequence), or
* document it so Apple/repair can’t hand-wave it away.