What is the solid black circle ⚫️ icon in the top left corner of the android phone mean?

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There’s a black circle ⚫️ icon in the top left corner of the android phone. What does it mean? I have a picture but not sure where to upload it.
 
I had that exact same issue. After a deep dive into my phone and process of elimination, I found the solution in developer settings. I set 'simulate display with cutout' to default. The black ⚫️ in the top left hand corner promptly disappeared.
 
I just had something similar but it's not in notifications and is a brown 🟤 that moved and showed over several apps... Anyone ever seen anything like that? Now it's gone.

I have a Google pixel 3xl.
 

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I just had something similar but it's not in notifications and is a brown ������ that moved and showed over several apps... Anyone ever seen anything like that? Now it's gone.

I have a Google pixel 3xl.

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