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Two arrows in a circle at the top of an iPhone: what does it mean?

On an iPhone it means the phone is syncing with your computer.

What Apple says

What it looks like
Two curved arrows forming a circle, each pointing at the other’s tail.
Shown by
iPhone (Apple)

Telling it apart

If the circular arrow has a padlock inside it, it is the portrait orientation lock instead.

Icons to compare

Sources

Each meaning above is taken from the maker’s own support page, fetched and read on the date shown. The drawing is ours; the real icon on your phone may be drawn a little differently and can change with software updates.