Phones don’t have lights

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/VRG_VST_0925_Site.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they're actually doing <em>more </em>to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg56uF4hlc">Joanna Stern</a> notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">On today's <em>Vergecast</em>, we're talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant, all the new smart glasses hardware, and Zuckerberg's response to the privacy uproar ar …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1000751/vergecast-meta-connect-muse-googlebooks">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>