{"id":59538,"date":"2022-08-29T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-use-the-emergency-sos-feature-on-your-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:50:01","slug":"how-to-use-the-emergency-sos-feature-on-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-use-the-emergency-sos-feature-on-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the Emergency SOS Feature on Your Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">no matter the<\/span> make and model of your phone, it&#8217;s likely to have an emergency SOS feature built in\u2014something you will hopefully never have to use but should make yourself aware of, just in case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Emergency SOS works in a similar way across mobile platforms, as we&#8217;ll outline below.  Whether you&#8217;re dealing with a medical emergency or other safety concerns, its main purpose is to let emergency services and your trusted contacts know that you&#8217;re in trouble and where you are.<\/p>\n<p>Apple iPhone<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">If you use an iPhone, the Emergency SOS feature allows you to quickly call the emergency services in whatever country you&#8217;re in and let one or more chosen contacts know that you need help.  First you&#8217;ll need to set those contacts up.  From the Health app, tap your profile picture, then choose <strong>Medical ID<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">tap <strong>edit<\/strong>and then under the <strong>Emergency Contacts<\/strong> heading select <strong>Add emergency contact<\/strong> to pick one or more names from your address book.  These people will get a message when you&#8217;ve used the Emergency SOS feature, and they&#8217;ll be sent your current location.  tap <strong>done<\/strong> when you&#8217;ve finished.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iKAnWF bhyIoG asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-foMCXx bomDaa asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kHmjLe dukugq responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-eWcsO lgxMZN asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jJpQhK jEPxaV AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-eWcsO lgxMZN asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-brOcMc hFfCYJ caption AssetEmbedCaption-eYEpeY qwmNM asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UABmB BaseText-fETRLB CaptionText-cNZZli hkSZSE bHMCym faGSa-d caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>You can set up Emergency SOS to work semi-automatically on iOS.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UABmB BaseText-fETRLB CaptionCredit-cSxGsC hkSZSE bmsBkF iOEyAO caption__credit\">Apple via David Nield<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There&#8217;s one other options screen to look at in advance.  If you go to Settings, and then Emergency SOS, you can enable both <strong>Call with Hold<\/strong> (which calls the emergency services with a button hold) and <strong>Call with 5 Presses<\/strong> (which calls the emergency services if you rapidly press one of the side buttons five times in a row).  In both cases, you&#8217;ll see a short countdown before the call is made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">To actually access the Emergency SOS feature, press and hold the side button and one of the volume buttons, then use the <strong>Emergency SOS<\/strong> slider, which will call the emergency services in your region.  You can also keep holding the side button and volume button if you&#8217;ve previously enabled <strong>Call with Hold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Galaxy Devices<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">If you own a Samsung Galaxy phone, you can set up the Emergency SOS feature by heading to the main Settings app and choosing <strong>safety and emergency<\/strong>.  Turn on the <strong>Send SOS messages<\/strong> toggle switch to configure how many rapid presses of the side button are required to enable the feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Once the feature is enabled, your emergency contacts will get a message saying that you need assistance, and they&#8217;ll be able to track your location for 24 hours.  During the setup process, you can select emergency contacts from the contacts list synced to your phone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no matter the make and model of your phone, it&#8217;s likely to have an emergency SOS feature built in\u2014something you will hopefully never have to use but should make yourself aware of, just in case. Emergency SOS works in a similar way across mobile platforms, as we&#8217;ll outline below. 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