Hi Sieghard Thanks for confirming that this feature definately works. This feature would have been a blessing to have had last Friday. My son's Home Health Nurse completely blacked out. Thank goodness my partner was home. I was panicking & shaking so bad I couldn't dial 911. And using Siri didn't even occur to me.
Donna > > Hello, > > So I just updated my wife’s iPhone 6S to iOS 11. She is sighted, but I still > had Voiceover on and showed her the new Emergency S.O.S setting. By default > this is turned off, if you turn it on then pressing the power/sleep button 5 > times quickly will start a siren and count-down, I think it’s 8 or 10 > seconds, and then the phone calls 9 1 1. I think I tried this once on my > Apple Watch where you have the same functionality if you press the side > button 5 times quickly, but I could easily cancel it. This time I did a > 2-finger double tap, but that didn’t work, then I got nervous and couldn’t > find the right button, asked my wife and she tried but of course Voiceover > was on. At 3 seconds she said “turn off Voiceover” so I triple clicked the > home button and she tried to cancel it, but it was too late. The 9 1 1 > operator came on, I sheepishly explained that we just updated to iOS 11 and > accidently triggered the call with this new feature and he did not sound at > all surprised. He did ask if I would mind staying on while he gets the police > on the line so I could confirm to them that everything was OK, I did so, > provided my name and confirmed that I was not under any sort of duresse and > all was good. > In the meantime my wife has myself and my Mum listet as emergency contacts.. > I heard the text messages come in, but we were just barely done with 9 1 1 > when my Mum called and asked what on earth was wrong… oops… maybe just take > my word for it that the feature works great, don’t try it if you don’t really > need it. > Interestingly enough after all of that the screen displayed a message “Sent > message to emergency contacts” or something like that and try as we might > with and without Voiceover we could not figure out a way to get rid of it to > get back to the home screen. Eventually I ended up turning the phone off and > back on after 20 or so seconds, then all was good except for as my wife said > a blinking “Emergency S.O.S is using your location” at the very top right in > the status bar, even to the right of the battery status. It bugged my wife so > much that she ended up turning off location services for Emergency S.O.S > which is under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services. I > think maybe it would have eventually gone away by itself, but she said it > bothered her. Maybe in a couple of days I’ll turn it back on and see if that > still shows up because on my phone location services for this is on and I > don’t get this in the status bar, probably it was there because it was used. > > Regards, > Sieghard > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
