hey everyone mike mulligan here thank
you so much for joining me today i am a
certified orientation and mobility
specialist and today i'm going to be
talking about a feature that is built
into iphones
that i think everybody should know about
all right let's do this
so in today's video i want to talk about
a really awesome feature that is built
into all the iphones and it's called
emergency sos
so this is a really awesome feature for
contacting emergency services in a
simple and easy
way as an orientation and mobility
specialist i really like to teach this
emergency sos feature to my clients
the ones who have iphones because i find
it really helpful just in case of
emergency
so i'm working with clients who are
blind and visually impaired who are
navigating throughout their environment
which can mean
in their home around their residential
neighborhood even in downtown areas
taking public transportation
and there's just some risk involved so
it's always good to have a way
to contact emergency services if needed
and i find this to be a really easy way
to do that
so i'm going to demonstrate how to use
emergency sos and some of the features
involved so hopefully this is helpful
and i really think everybody should know
how to
access this feature if they have an
iphone no matter who they are
because you never know when you might
need it all right so let's start the
demonstration here on how to access the
emergency sos feature
on an iphone so this feature works on
all iphones
it's just a little bit different on how
you access it depending on what
type of iphone you have so if you have
an iphone 8 or newer
it's going to be one way to access it
and if you have an iphone 7 or earlier
it's going to be a different way to
access it so in front of me here i have
an iphone x which i'll be using for most
of the demonstration but then i'll also
use an iphone 7 just to briefly show you
how to access it if you have an iphone 7
or so how does the emergency sos
feature work what does it do so what it
does is when you call the emergency sos
number
it automatically connects you to your
local emergency number
so no matter where you are if you have
phone service
it'll know what number to call
so that's actually a pretty cool feature
so if you're somewhere new and you're
not quite sure the number to call
you won't have to worry about that it'll
automatically connect
to the proper emergency number for the
area you're in
and one other cool feature i like about
this emergency sos
is if you put in emergency contacts into
your phone it'll automatically alert
them right after you get
done with the call to the emergency
services through a text message so it'll
alert them
of an emergency as well as the location
of where that emergency
occurred and then periodically for the
next
24 to 48 hours it will give updates on
your location to your emergency contacts
through text message
okay so now i'm going to talk about how
to access the emergency sos feature
so in front of me here again i have an
iphone x so what i'm going to be
demonstrating first is what will work on
an iphone 8 or newer
and it's pretty simple it is going to be
first you're going to
locate the home button on the top right
of the phone so i've done that here
and then you're going to find the volume
buttons on the top left so when you hold
down
either of the volume buttons as well as
the home button
it'll access the screen with the
emergency sos feature so i'm going to
hold that down
all right so right now the phone
vibrated to alert me that i've came
to that new screen and if you have
volume on you'll actually hear
a sound and when you're on this screen
there's two options one to slide
to power off the phone or emergency sos
so to access emergency sos when you get
to the screen
you have a few options one you can swipe
right
on the little red circle on the
emergency sos and then that will
start to call emergency services or if
you're using voiceover
you can as soon as you get to the screen
it will automatically be
selected on emergency sos so then you
just double tap twice with one finger
and that will call
emergency services and another thing you
can do if you haven't had a hard time
navigating the screen or you're just
unable to because of your emergency
you can just hold down one of the volume
buttons as well as the home button
for i think about five seconds and it'll
automatically
call emergency services without having
to do any swiping or tapping
so you just hold that down and that will
call emergency services
and i also briefly wanted to show you
how to access emergency sos
if you uh are using an iphone 7 or
earlier so in front of me here on the
table i have an iphone 7
so to access emergency sos it's similar
but this time you're going to hit the
home button on the top right of the
screen
five times in a row pretty quickly
again now the screen popped up where it
has the slide to power off or emergency
sos
and then you can just access emergency
sos that way
so that's if you have an iphone 7 or
earlier
so i want to mention and finally i want
to mention that this
also works with apple watches so if you
have an apple watch you can also
access emergency sos without having to
use a phone you can just use your watch
so if you have an apple watch 2 or
earlier
you're going to need your phone nearby
unless you've hooked up wi-fi calling
but that's a little more in-depth but
you can if your phone is nearby you and
you have a tour earlier
you can hold the side button here so the
side button is under the wheel
if you hold that down
again it's a very similar screen to what
it looks like on
the iphone you can either power off or
call emergency sos
and if you have a apple watch 3 or newer
with
cell service you don't even need your
phone with you so if you're
out and about you don't have your phone
you can access emergency sos without
your phone
by doing the same thing hitting that
side button until the emergency sos
pops up and then you can either swipe or
if you're using voiceover you can
double tap to access emergency sos thank
you so much for joining me today i hope
this video demonstration was helpful and
learning how to use the emergency sos
feature and when this would be
important to use so please feel free to
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iphones who might benefit from knowing
how
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