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My phone locked today - when the side button pressed 5 times on my iPhone 11 as it was in my bag when cycling obviously jumping about a bit on a gravelly road. I was horrified when I discovered this when my son contacted me through my Garmin cycle computer!! Otherwise I would not have known. What possible use can this Feature be when it promptly freezes the phone So you can’t contact your emergency contacts to let them know you are ok. Plus if it was an emergency you wouldn’t have the use of the phone? Sorry a bit of a rhetorical question.

Posted on Jul 26, 2020 9:00 AM

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Jul 29, 2020 11:23 AM in response to Nettielilac

Thank you for your reply. Well I do understand very well how the Emergency Contacts work on the Apple iPhone - I have had to switch most of them off so that I don’t have a repeat of my situation. No - one wants to be responsible for wasting emergency services time by making accidental calls. Plus when your phone has made the accidental call - it turns into a useless brick so that you can’t even respond & stop it contacting family or anyone else. it took me more than 30 minutes to manage to restore my phone so I could contact my son & let him know I was ok. I don’t think the system has been tested enough. I am so worried about the phone making bogus calls I have turned most of the features off. So in a real emergency how much use would the phone be? I think Apple need to look at Rewriting the software. What use is a phone that turns into a brick when you have a real emergency?

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