Q: Concerns about 911 (and equivalent) with WiFi Calling
I'm going to take my iPhone to the UK for a few months, and then Israel. Roaming "works" but the charges are insane, so I'm leaning towards disabling roaming and using the Wifi calling feature, because I'll have Wifi most of the time most days.
My worry, and I wonder if others share it: if a person has a heart attack on the sidewalk next to me, I'll need to go to options, re-enable roaming (three or four clicks...), wait for it to connect, and then try to remember the UK or Israel versions of 911 (for anyone who is curious, the UK uses 999 for ambulances, but 112 for fires and other emergencies; Israel uses 100/101/102 (police/ambulance/fire), but in theory they also allow 112 or even 911, like we do in the US).
Why doesn't Apple just automate all of this?
Right now their Wifi calling feature already wants me to keep my location updated. Instead, they could have an option "use Wifi except for emergencies, roam for emergencies only". Then, if I am in the UK and dial 911, they could have a version of roaming that ONLY uses the roaming network for local 911 calls, and automatically uses the proper local number too. So I would be using Wifi roaming, excerpt that emergency calls would in fact work without messing with the options tabs and waiting to rebind to a local Telco supplier. The phone would actually put itself in roaming mode, but wouldn't accept incoming calls or send outgoing calls on the roaming provider -- it would use Wifi calling for that, and for texting, and only would use the roaming carrier for 911).
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Aug 3, 2016 12:22 PM
Hello ProfKPB,
No here works for Apple, we are all volunteers, using your time to help other users, like yourself, in this user to user form. I have read your question and I do not have an answer, perhaps you should direct your question at the people that may be able to help you.
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Best regards,
Mal
Posted on Aug 3, 2016 5:41 PM