Use Emergency SOS on your iPhone

With Emergency SOS, you can quickly and hands call for assist and alert your emergency contacts.

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

Hither's how it works

When yous brand a phone call with SOS, your iPhone automatically calls the local emergency number. In some countries and regions, you lot might need to choose the service that you demand. For instance, in China mainland you tin can choose police, fire, or ambulance.

You tin can also add emergency contacts. After an emergency call ends, your iPhone alerts your emergency contacts with a text bulletin, unless you choose to abolish. Your iPhone sends your electric current location, and for a period of time later on you enter SOS fashion, your emergency contacts receive updates when your location changes.

Call emergency services

Make the call on iPhone 8 or later:

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

  1. Printing and concord the side button and ane of the volume buttons until the Emergency SOS slider appears.
  2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call emergency services. If y'all continue to hold down the side push and volume button, instead of dragging the slider, a countdown begins and an alert sounds. If you hold down the buttons until the countdown ends, your iPhone automatically calls emergency services.

Brand the call on iPhone 7 or earlier:

  1. Speedily press the side (or top) button five times. The Emergency SOS slider will announced. (In India, you only need to press the button three times, then your iPhone automatically calls emergency services.)
  2. Elevate the Emergency SOS slider to phone call emergency services.

After the telephone call ends, your iPhone sends your emergency contacts a text message with your current location, unless you choose to cancel. If Location Services is off, it will temporarily turn on. If your location changes, your contacts will get an update, and yous'll get a notification nearly 10 minutes later.

If you use the Emergency SOS shortcut, you demand to enter your passcode to re-enable Touch ID, even if y'all don't complete a call to emergency services.

Stop sharing your location

When your location is beingness shared, you lot'll get a reminder to stop sharing your location every 4 hours for 24 hours. To stop the updates, tap the status bar and select "Stop Sharing Emergency Location."

End a call

If y'all start the countdown by accident, you lot can cancel. On iPhone 8 or later, release the side button and volume button. On iPhone 7 or before, press the Stop push, then tap Stop Calling.

If you accidentally phone call emergency services, y'all can cease the call. Tap the End Call pushthe red end call icon, then ostend that you want to terminate calling.

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

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

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

Remove emergency contacts

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

Modify how you call

On iPhone viii or afterward, your iPhone tin automatically call emergency services. When Call with Hold or Call with 5 Presses is turned on and you try to make an emergency call, your iPhone begins a countdown and sounds an alert. After the countdown ends, your iPhone automatically calls emergency services.

To turn these settings on:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap Emergency SOS.
  3. Plow Telephone call with Hold or Call with five Presses on.

If y'all plow off Phone call with Concord or Telephone call with v Presses, you can still use the Emergency SOS slider to make a telephone call.

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