If ever a situation suddenly arises where you need immediate help, the Emergency SOS feature of your iPhone can save your life. But have you set it up? If not, no problem! Today we will tell you in a very easy way how to set up Emergency SOS in iPhone and how to use it correctly.
What is Emergency SOS
Emergency SOS is a feature designed to get you help immediately in an emergency. When you activate it, your iPhone calls emergency services (such as 112 or 911) and sends an alert with your location to your emergency contacts. If you ever get into trouble or are not in a position to call yourself, this feature can ensure your safety.
How to set up Emergency SOS on iPhone
1. How to activate Emergency SOS
You can activate Emergency SOS on iPhone in two ways –
With Power button & Volume buttons
- Press and hold the iPhone’s power button and the volume up/down buttons at the same time.
- An Emergency SOS slider will appear on the screen.
- If you swipe it, the iPhone will call emergency services.
By pressing the power button five times in quick succession
- This method will only work if you have enabled it in Settings.
- For this, go to Settings > Emergency SOS and turn on “Call with side button”.
- Now whenever you press the power button five times in quick succession, the SOS call will be made automatically.
2. How to add emergency contacts
To make the Emergency SOS feature even more powerful, you can add some of your special contacts as emergency contacts. For this –
- Go to Settings > Health > Medical ID.
- Click on the “Edit” option.
- Scroll down and go to the Emergency Contacts section.
- Add people you want to notify in case of an emergency by clicking on “Add Emergency Contacts”.
- Save the settings by tapping on “Done”.
Now if you ever activate Emergency SOS, these contacts will receive an alert message with your live location.
