Your Smartphone’s Smart Features
Phone Safety Features
Top tips:
- Learn the exact button sequence for activating Emergency SOS on your phone
- Add trusted emergency contacts and confirm that their phone numbers are current
- Complete your Medical ID or emergency information, including allergies, medications, and medical conditions
- Decide whether emergency information should be visible from your locked screen, keeping in mind the privacy tradeoff
- Review which actions occur when SOS is activated, such as calling emergency services, sounding an alarm, recording video, or notifying contacts
- Learn how to stop an accidental activation without disabling the feature
- Explore location sharing, scheduled check-ins, and safety timers if your device supports them
- Make sure location services and any required permissions are enabled
- Review all settings after changing phones or installing major software update
- Link to iPhone Emergency Services and Medical ID instructions: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/contact-emergency-services-iph3c99374c/ios
- Link to Android Emergency Features: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?hl=en