There are two ways to call emergency services with the side button and both of
these methods can be disabled in Settings > Emergency SOS:
1. Call with Hold, the explanation reads:
Press and hold the side button and either volume button to make an emergency
call. In certain regions you may need to specify an emergency service to dial.
Auto call requires a SIM card.
If you swipe right you then have the "Call with Hold" button which will either
say On or Off and you can double tap on it to toggle it.
If you swipe right again there is a further explanation:
If you press and hold the side button and volume buttons the emergency SOS
slider appears. If you continue to hold them a countdown begins and an alert
sounds. When the countdown ends iPhone calls emergency services.
2. Call with 5 presses
Rapidly pressing the side button 5 times starts a countdown and sounds an
alert. When the countdown ends iPhone calls emergency services.
I personally have the press and hold option turned on since it is very
difficult to accidently press and hold either volume up or volume down along
with the side button. Taking a screenshot requires you to also press volume up
and the side button, but you simply press and release and I have never even
come close to triggering the emergency SOS. Also, keep in mind that as long as
you don't panic you can still cancel the emergency call, I believe the
countdown lasts 5 minutes and there is a cancel button which allows you to stop
it before the call.
Pressing the side button 5 times can be a bit easier to do accidently since
most people set up the side button to turn Voiceover on or off with a triple
press. If somebody maybe has some motor difficulties I could see how they may
press the button 5 times instead of 3 times.
As for using the side button by itself to invoke SIRI is not a problem and
there is no way you can call emergency services this way.
In the same way there really is no way you can make an emergency call if you
press the buttons to power off your phone because you press them in sequence
and not together: first press and release volume up, then press and release
volume down and then press and hold the side button for just a moment until
Voiceover says "Power off button".
There used to be a button on that same screen which allowed you to also call
Emergency Services, but it's been removed in a recent iOS update and now all
you have on that screen is Power Off, a button with a funny Voiceover label
which says something about "Location fill radio waves left and right" and it
has to do with whether your iPhone can be found with Find My after it has been
powered off and lastly there is a cancel button.
If you are still worried you can always bring up the Power Off menu by going to
Settings > General > Shutdown, it does the same thing as pressing volume up,
volume down and the side button.
You have to press the side button 5 times quickly in order to bring up
emergency calling.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Star
Gazer
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:14 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Have a New Chime
During Startup
This is helpful. I have always been afraid of messing
with the side buttons, am afraid I will call 911, is there a way to deactivate
the side buttons for emergency calls?
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard
Weitzel
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 1:09 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Have a New Chime
During Startup
When I turn on my Asus Zenbook laptop I have absolutely no feedback until the
Windows startup sound plays which is almost simultaneous to when Jaws starts
speaking and it takes about 10 seconds from when I press the power button. The
power button is just like any other button on the keyboard so once again, you
press it and assume the laptop turns on which of course it does and then you
get the startup sound and Jaws starts to speak at the logon screen.
Now, here my iPhone 11: I press the side button (power button) and hold it for
a 4 count and then let go. Then just as with my laptop I wait about 12 or 15
seconds (probably depends a bit on your phone) and then I hear a little jingle
and Voiceover comes up and I am asked to enter my PIN.
The difference: really none and not a process where you can do anything wrong.
When I want to power off my iPhone I press volume up, volume down and then I
press and hold the side button for just a second or so and Voiceover will say
"Power Off button", I double tap on it and the phone shuts down. Once again I
don't find there really is any margin for error, but if you really want to know
when the phone has powered off completely (it takes about 10 seconds) just plug
in a headset when you do this and a few seconds after you double tap on power
off you will hear a distinctive little click sound in your headset and this
means the phone is now fully off. If you are turning your phone off to reboot
it, you can simply count to 20 after you tap on power off before you press and
hold the side button for 4 seconds to power it up again.
z
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Star
Gazer
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 9:35 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Have a New Chime
During Startup
I agree, the lack of feedback when the phone is
powering up drives me batty
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Scott
Davert
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:25 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Have a New Chime
During Startup
I wish we could also have the privative yet effective vibration alert that the
phone is booting up. Kind of like when your device connects to AC power, but
some sort of verification that the device is coming online. I think it's cool
they have this feature, I wish it had been more universally designed. Oh well,
I've lived without it before, I can continue to do so. LOL
Scott
On 9/8/22, Joshua Hendrickson <louv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering that myself. Would the sound chime as soon as you hit
> your power button, or take a little time. Some very interesting
> things coming out in the apple world these days.
>
> On 9/8/22, Ben Mustill-Rose <b...@benmr.com> wrote:
>> It's going to be interesting to see at what point exactly the sound
>> is played. Obviously the longer the delay between power on and sound
>> the less useful it becomes. Definitely some impressive engineering
>> going on if they got it to a point where iBoot was able to handle
>> audio. In an ideal world it would also sound if you had a corrupt iOS
>> install.
>>
>> Obviously not something to go out and buy a Pro for on its own, but
>> you'd imagine that the feature will trickle down to less expensive
>> models over the years.
>>
>> On 9/8/22, Joshua Hendrickson <louv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The article only said iPhone 14 pro models with the A16 chip. Darn.
>>> This is a feature I've wanted for sometime. Now I have something to
>>> look forward to when I get a new iPhone. If only I'd waited for the
>>> iPhone 14 pro max.
>>>
>>> On 9/8/22, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>>>> If the regular iPhone 14 and 14 Plus have the sound it can't be
>>>> part of the
>>>> A16 chip because they only have the A15, same as the iPhone 13/13
>>>> Mini and
>>>> 13 Pro/Pro Max.
>>>> Only the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max is getting the A16 chip.
>>>>
>>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf
>>>> Of CHELA Robles
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 9:02 PM
>>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>>> Subject: Fwd: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will
>>>> Have a New Chime During Startup
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> From: David Goldfield
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>>>> Date: September 7, 2022 at 8:52:13 PM PDT
>>>> To: Tech-VI Announcement List
>>>> <tech...@groups.io<mailto:tech...@groups.io>>
>>>> Subject: [tech-vi Announce List] iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Have a
>>>> New Chime During Startup
>>>> Reply-To: tech...@groups.io<mailto:tech...@groups.io>
>>>>
>>>> From the Tech-VI list owner:
>>>> The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models will have the ability to play
>>>> a chime during the boot process. This has been an option which many
>>>> blind iPhone users have wanted for years. Rather than posting the
>>>> entire article I am pasting just the relevant section below. If you
>>>> go to the original source link you can hear what the new chime
>>>> sounds like. Please note that on my PC the sound was a bit louder
>>>> than expected. Those using headphones, earbuds or who have
>>>> sensitivity to loud sounds should be aware of this.
>>>>
>>>> Original
>>>> Source<https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/07/ios-16-tidbits-boot-chime-cra
>>>> sh-detection-api/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Boot chime for iPhone 14 Pro
>>>>
>>>> Another new feature coming to iPhone 14 Pro models is a boot chime.
>>>> More
>>>> specifically, users will have the option to make the iPhone play a
>>>> sound every time the device is turned on or off as part of the iOS
>>>> accessibility features.
>>>>
>>>> Since the startup sound is played during the boot process, the
>>>> chime is part of the bootrom of the new A16 chip – which is
>>>> probably why this option is not available for other iPhone models.
>>>>
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