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HOUSTON - There is a able emergency affection on your buzz that you may not apperceive you have.
Emergency SOS and SOS are accessible on both Apple and Android accessories and can alarm for advice and active your emergency contacts if you’re in an emergency situation.
Here’s how to put them into action.
For iPhone:
When you accomplish a alarm with SOS, your iPhone automatically calls the bounded emergency number. You can additionally add emergency contacts.
After an emergency alarm ends, your iPhone alerts your emergency contacts with a argument message, unless you acquire to cancel. Your iPhone sends them your accepted location, and, for a aeon of time afterwards you access SOS mode, sends updates to your emergency contacts back your area changes.
Here's how to accomplish the alarm on iPhone X, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus (Apple): 1. Press and authority the ancillary button and one of the aggregate buttons until the Emergency SOS slider appears. 2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to alarm emergency services. If you abide to authority bottomward the ancillary button and Aggregate button, instead of boring the slider, a admission begins and an active sounds. If you authority bottomward the buttons until the admission ends, your iPhone automatically calls emergency services.Here's how to accomplish the alarm on iPhone 7 and beforehand models: 1. Rapidly columnist the ancillary button bristles times. The Emergency SOS slider will appear. 2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to alarm emergency services.After the alarm ends, your iPhone sends your emergency contacts a argument bulletin with your accepted location, unless you acquire to cancel. If Area Casework is off, it will briefly about-face on.If your area changes, your contacts will get an update, and you'll get a notification about 10 account later. To stop the updates, tap the cachet bar and baddest "Stop Administration Emergency Location." If you accumulate sharing, you'll get a admonition to stop every four hours for 24 hours.Remember: If you use the Emergency SOS shortcut, you charge to access your passcode to re-enable Touch ID, alike if you don't complete a alarm to emergency services. We all accomplish mistakes -- if you started an emergency alarm by accident, columnist the "Stop" button, again tap "Stop Calling."
You can add emergency contacts from the Health app on your iPhone. Just remember: You can't set emergency casework as an SOS contact.
For added information, including how to set up this affection on your Apple Watch, go to Apple’s folio on this feature.
For Android:
If you use a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, Samsung has included a agnate affection alleged SOS Messages. To use it, you add up to four contacts who will acquire an emergency active back you columnist the ability button on your accessory three times in a row.
When triggered, an emergency bulletin with your location, a account of your situation, and an audio bulletin will be beatific automatically.
Here’s how to set it up, according to GadgetHacks.com:
Open your phone’s settings, go to "Personal," baddest "Privacy and Emergency," and bang "Send SOS Messages."
You can accredit the affection by beat the toggle at the top right. It will active you to accede to a disclaimer. Once you acquire the terms, you will be able to set up SOS Messages.
Click "Send letters to" to choose up to four emergency contacts to acquire your emergency alerts. You can add new contacts, or baddest from contacts already on your phone. Note that 911 cannot be created as an emergency contact.
In accession to sending your location, you can acquire to accredit two added SOS messaging features.
"Attach pictures" allows you to attach photos taken from both the advanced and rear cameras afore the emergency active is sent.
"Attach audio recording" allows you to attach a five-second audio recording to the message.
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