Hi, She explained why in her message. She's worried in an emergency, Siri might not be able to understand her or, the server is down, etc.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 27, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Andy Baracco <w...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > Why not just set up 911 as a contact, and just press and hold the home btn > and say "Call 911"? > > Andy > > > -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Homiak > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:19 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: 911 app? > > Does anybody know a way to do this or a way to put something like this on the > home screen? What I'm thinking about is this: if I were to wake up in the > middle of the night and had to call 911 say because I was sick, I probably > wouldn't feel much like doing a bunch of tapping to get to phone and put in > the number and hit call. Even if I could speak it, maybe I wouldn't be > understandable to siri or siri might do its little tick-tick-tick and do > nothing or say: "How can I help you?" I'd like something on my home screen > that I could double tap. But I wouldn't want to double tap it by accident so > it would have to require me to do it a second time to confirm or else it > would have to be an app I would open first and then double tap to make the > call. That still would be easier than doing it from the phone app. Does > anybody know a way to do this? And yes, I do know about landlines vs cell > phones for 911 so that's not what i'm asking about. Also, i don't have health > problems that are causing me to want this; I'm just thinking about > possibilities. > > > Thanks. > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
