Usance Emergency SOS on your iPhone

With Exigency SOS, you put up call for help quickly and easily, as well as sleepless your hand brake contacts.

iPhone showing the power off slider, the Medical ID slider and the Emergency SOS slider.

Present's how it works

When you make a call with SOS, your iPhone will automatically call the topical anaestheti emergency number for where you are. In some countries and regions, you may need to prefer the service that you need. For example, in China mainland you send away choose the police, fire or ambulance service.

You can also add pinch contacts. After an emergency send for has finished, your iPhone stool alert your emergency contacts with a textual matter message, unless you choose to scratch this option. Your iPhone will send your current location, and for a time period of time later you've entered SOS mode, your emergency contacts wish beryllium sent updates when your location changes.

Call the emergency services

Do the call on iPhone 8 operating theater later:

iPhone displaying the power off slider, the Medical ID slider and the Emergency SOS slider. The Emergency SOS slider is counting down.

  1. Press and hold the side button and one of the volume buttons until the Emergency SOS skidder appears.
  2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call the hand brake services. If you continue to hold down the position release and volume button, instead of dragging the slider, a countdown will start and an lidless will valid. If you hold down the buttons until the countdown has finished, your iPhone will mechanically call the parking brake services.

Make the turn iPhone 7 or earlier:

  1. Rapidly press the side (or spinning top) button five times. The Emergency SOS slider will appear. (In Republic of India, you only when need to insistency the button ternary times, past your iPhone wish automatically call the emergency services.)
  2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call the emergency services.

After the prognosticate has terminated, your iPhone testament send your pinch contacts a text message with your current location, unless you choose to cancel this option. If Placement Services is turned off, IT will temporarily be turned happening. If your location changes, your contacts will commence an update and you'll receive a notification about 10 transactions later.

If you use the Exigency SOS crosscut, you'll motivation to record your passcode to re-enable Touch ID, even if you get into't complete a call off to the emergency services.

Stop sharing your location

When your location is organism shared out, you'll take in a reminder to stop sharing your location every 4 hours for 24 hours. To stop the updates, tap the position bar and take "Stop Sharing Emergency Location".

End a call

If you start the countdown by accident, you can cancel it. On iPhone 8 or later, release the English push and intensity button. On iPhone 7 or earlier, contrac the Block off button, then knock Stop Calling.

If you call the emergency services by accident, you hindquarters end the phone call. Tap the Oddment Call forth buttonthe red end call icon, then affirm you want to terminate the call.

iPhone displaying the Medical ID settings screen, where you can add emergency contacts.

  1. Open the Health app and tap your visibility picture.
  2. Tap Medical ID.
  3. Tap Edit and then scroll to Emergency Contacts.
  4. Tap the Add button to add an emergency link.
  5. Tap a contact lens, then add up their relationship.
  6. Dab Done to save your changes.

You can't set the emergency services as an SOS contact.

Remove emergency contacts

iPhone displaying the Emergency SOS screen, where you can allow your phone to automatically call the emergency services.

Change how you call

On iPhone 8 or ulterior, your iPhone can automatically ring the emergency services. When Call with Grasp or Visit with 5 Presses is overturned on and you try to stimulate an pinch call, your iPhone will start a countdown and solid an alert. Afterwards the countdown has finished, your iPhone will call the emergency brake services mechanically.

To turn these settings on:

  1. Naked the Settings app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap Emergency SOS.
  3. Turn Call with Check Beaver State Call with 5 Presses on.

If you've turned off Cry out with Have or Call forth with 5 Presses, you can however use the Emergency SOS slider to make a holler.

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