If somebody seriously wants to harm you and they were aware you are calling 9 1 1 they could simply take the phone away from you and smash it which very effectively would also cancel the call. If the call had already connected or was just doing so this may prevent your location getting sent and of course if you are not at home and 9 1 1 can’t get your location from the phone or you can’t provide it you are out of luck. The good thing is that anybody can click the power button 5 times even if the phone is in your pocket or a bag, but as soon as you do it this very awesome Star Trek sounding siren goes off, but it might take somebody a few seconds to figure out what it is and 8 seconds or whatever it is do go by fairly quickly as I found out (maybe the rodeo rider who is sitting on a bucking bull may not think so, but it’s not so long).
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Wells Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Emergency S.O.S I suppose if an emergency call was easy to cancel, anyone trying to harm you could cancel the call. Nice to know this works. Thanks for trying it & letting us all know. Sherry Wells From: Sieghard Weitzel<mailto:siegh...@live.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Emergency S.O.S Hello, So I just updated my wife’s iPhone 6S to iOS 11. She is sighted, but I still had Voiceover on and showed her the new Emergency S.O.S setting. By default this is turned off, if you turn it on then pressing the power/sleep button 5 times quickly will start a siren and count-down, I think it’s 8 or 10 seconds, and then the phone calls 9 1 1. I think I tried this once on my Apple Watch where you have the same functionality if you press the side button 5 times quickly, but I could easily cancel it. This time I did a 2-finger double tap, but that didn’t work, then I got nervous and couldn’t find the right button, asked my wife and she tried but of course Voiceover was on. At 3 seconds she said “turn off Voiceover” so I triple clicked the home button and she tried to cancel it, but it was too late. The 9 1 1 operator came on, I sheepishly explained that we just updated to iOS 11 and accidently triggered the call with this new feature and he did not sound at all surprised. He did ask if I would mind staying on while he gets the police on the line so I could confirm to them that everything was OK, I did so, provided my name and confirmed that I was not under any sort of duresse and all was good. In the meantime my wife has myself and my Mum listet as emergency contacts. I heard the text messages come in, but we were just barely done with 9 1 1 when my Mum called and asked what on earth was wrong… oops… maybe just take my word for it that the feature works great, don’t try it if you don’t really need it. Interestingly enough after all of that the screen displayed a message “Sent message to emergency contacts” or something like that and try as we might with and without Voiceover we could not figure out a way to get rid of it to get back to the home screen. Eventually I ended up turning the phone off and back on after 20 or so seconds, then all was good except for as my wife said a blinking “Emergency S.O.S is using your location” at the very top right in the status bar, even to the right of the battery status. It bugged my wife so much that she ended up turning off location services for Emergency S.O.S which is under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services. I think maybe it would have eventually gone away by itself, but she said it bothered her. Maybe in a couple of days I’ll turn it back on and see if that still shows up because on my phone location services for this is on and I don’t get this in the status bar, probably it was there because it was used. Regards, Sieghard -- 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. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. 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