Hi, iOS 10.2 was supposed to have this "Emergency SOS" feature where pressing the sleep/power button 5 times quickly would initiate a call to 9 1 1 after 3 seconds. Similarly to using SIRI to call 9 1 1 there was that 3 second countdown to give you a chance to cancel it if you didn't mean to actually call 9 1 1. This would have allowed you to call 9 1 1 even if you had your phone in the pocket, you would just press the power button 5 times and a few seconds later the call would be placed. However, in the iOS 10.2 beta cycle this feature was only available in India (for testing I assume) and it appears that Apple has decided not to include it in the iOS 10.2 final release. Currently when you press the power button 5 times quickly nothing happens. There was also supposed to be an "Energency SOS option in Settings > General which allowed you to disable the option with the power button, but no such setting exists at this time. In thesettings for Energency SOS you were also able to switch it from pressing power 5 times to 3 times and you were able to disable the 3 second delay/audible alert that 9 1 1 was being called, this would allow you to contact 9 1 1 in complete silence in a sticky situation as long as you were able to reach your phone for a couple of seconds to press the button. The Apple Watch got the Emergency SOS feature with Watch OS 3 in September, you can initiate the call by holding the side button for 5 seconds. The Emergency SOS feature on the iPhone was supposed to be available in 14 countries, but it seems that only India got to test it during the beta cycle and also still has the feature now after the final release. If you Google "iOS 10.2 Energency SOS" you can find all sorts of articles about it.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Doc Wright Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: iOS 10.2 and iPhone 5s yes, they took away the ability to reset by pressing the power button 5 times quickly. it is now a panic command. ----- Original Message ----- From: "christopher hallsworth" <[email protected]> To: "Viphone" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 12:24 AM Subject: iOS 10.2 and iPhone 5s Morning everyone. Has anyone got the screen to nake an emergency call after updating to iOS 10.2 on an iPhone 5s? Or is my girlfriend's iPhone 5s showing signs of stupidity? Lol! Seriously, are these signs her device is breaking? The strange thing is she only got this screen after restarting VoiceOver after it froze right after the update. Thanks in advance for any responses. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
