Can Siri on iPad call emergency services? (Without linking iPhone)

Your iPad is not a cellular telephone. It has no facility to make a voice call to anyone, including emergency services.

Well my 5 yr old son just somehow called 911 on his iPad so apparently it works and you can. Neither of us have any idea how he did it though.

Crummjys wrote:

I think the fact that it gives you the option to call would suggest that it would make the call, possibly through some internet/VOIP calling system.

Only if you have some VOIP app and service setup, like Skype. Believe what you wish, but no iPad can natively connect to nor use any carriers cellular voice network. They can be linked to an iPhone via iOS continuity unity to make and receive calls (the iPhone actually makes the voice network connection), and they can make internet VOIP calls, if set up to do so.

I think the fact that it gives you the option to call would suggest that it would make the call, possibly through some internet/VOIP calling system.

Caroley1977 wrote:

Neither of us have any idea how he did it though.

The way he did it was just as Michael Black suggested: He either used a VoIP service such as Skype, or he used FaceTime if the iPad is connected to your iPhone using Continuity/Handoff.