Good, this happened to me! I had my phone in the cup holder of my car while driving down a dirt road and bumps pressed the power enough to make it emergency call 911. It scared the shit out of me cause the phone also starting make a horrible alarm/siren sound.
Yeah, accidentally got the alarm too. I think it started a countdown to actually dialing 911, but didnt make it to 0 before i cancelled it. Well, I hope thats what it was anyways. Freaked me out.
Then I started thinking about if it did that when I was actually in trouble. I mean, if i was being held at gunpoint, I don’t think I want a giant alarm going off. I worry that would be a great way to get myself shot.
But, then I was ultimately thankful for it, in the circumstance at least, cause then it definitely would have dialed 911 and wouldn’t have known…
I still wish there was a way to call silently though. Or, maybe there is, but im not gonna purposefully get to the point where I could find out.
There is. Check your settings. You can turn off the alarm. And at least on pixels, you can have it show buttons on the screen to ask for police, fire or ambulance.
Awesome, thanks! I’ll check it out.
Just don’t try it out of course 🤭
It happened to me but I was in the shower. My power button jammed. 911 attempted to even call me back, I feel sorry for wasting their time.
I triggered it while driving when I tried to increase volume on my phone through the pocket. Accidentally pressed power button and almost shat myself due to rhe 911 call and siren sound through the car radio.
Where did the siren sound come from? Are they making paramedics work double duty as dispatchers now?
Google does the bare minimum.
Just reloaded a phone with Lineage, and it lows you to disable this nonsense.
I get the idea behind emergency call feature not being behind the lock screen, but pretty much everyone has their own phone these days (or two). I’m not likely to need to grab someone else’s phone to call 911
You can turn it off on normal android lmao
My touch screen randomly disabled itself and when I attempted to shut my phone off, it instead triggered a 911 call.
The only way to stop it? Swiping right on the touch screen.
I was just a bit frustrated and had no idea 5 taps triggered emergency calls. What a terrible event. Q.Q
I too was having screen issues. Once i had accidentally started the call, I waited for them to answer, explained what happened, and apologized. I then stopped fuckin’ around with my broken ass phone.
That option is opt-in on my Pixel, when i read how it works i noped the fuck out
Samsung allows turning the countdown into a simple slider (eg press 5 times then slide right to call 112 and send sms with your photos and location to all of your relatives)
This kind of behavior should be illegal
