Emergency contacts notification won’t turn off
I accidentally sent out notification to my emergency contacts and it won’t turn off.
iPhone XS
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Accidentally? Use Emergency SOS on your iPhone
With Emergency SOS in iOS 11 or later, you can quickly and easily call for help and alert your emergency contacts.
Call emergency services
Here's how to make the call on iPhone 8 or later:
You mean the following process happened accidentally
- Press and hold the side button and one of the Volume buttons until the Emergency SOS slider appears.
- Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call emergency services. If you continue to hold down the side button 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.
If you use the Emergency SOS shortcut, you need to enter your passcode to re-enable Touch ID, even if you don't complete a call to emergency services.
End a call
If you start the countdown by accident, you can cancel. On iPhone 8 or later, release the side button and Volume button. On iPhone 7 or earlier, press the Stop button, then tap Stop Calling.
- If you accidentally call emergency services, you can end the call. Tap
, then confirm that you want to stop calling.