- A Reddit user accidentally activated Emergency SOS and shared a nude video of self with his emergency contacts
- This embarrassing (and fun) story has made sure that some are planning to deactivate SOS emergency on their Android phone
- You can rather modify your SOS settings to make it more difficult to activate, or define it so as not to share the video and the audio
The characteristics of emergency SOS on our phones have been cited as a backup, but accidental activations could be for life if you have experience like that of an unlucky user of Reddit, who accidentally sent their 12 emergency contacts A naked video of themselves. Fortunately, you don’t need to deactivate the decor to help you avoid the same embarrassment.
The test occurred during the weekend when, in an effort to extinguish his alarm from the morning phone, the user assistance prepret6668 says that he accidentally activated the emergency so – they suspect by supporting five times On the power button on their phone. The alarm became a swirling mermaid and the screen of their phone alerted them that he called 911 and sent information to their emergency contacts.
They rushed to cancel the emergency SOs, but in doing so, won their phone without knowing that the functionality begins to capture a video which he then sends to all their emergency contacts. Combine this with the fact that the user says he sleeps without any clothes, and the result is that their contacts were sent a completely naked video of his friend.
If you want to laugh, the full post on Reddit and the answers in the wire are worth reading – in particular knowing that after the situation was explained, everyone involved also found it hilarious – But you may be wondering what you can do to avoid being in a similar situation.
How to change your emergency SOS settings
Certain obvious suggestions, but not too useful, would be to put out emergency SOs, to use a different device as alarm, or to always sleep with clothes, but there are emergency SOS parameters that you can change to The room to help you avoid disaster.
One is to define your phone to require a secondary action after pressing your power button five times before it goes into emergency mode, instead of it is automatic. On Pixel, this forces you to touch and maintain an icon on the screen of your phone for a few seconds, while on Samsung, this forces you to slide on the symbol of the phone on the screen, like when you answer a call.
A second option is to modify the details that emergency contacts receive. If you prefer, you can define it so that your device does not send audio recordings, photos or videos of your emergency to contacts. The downside to deactivate this is that these car records facilitate the watch and explain your situation without having to type a tailor -made message – so keep this in mind if you plan to deactivate it.
A third change option that is on your emergency contact list so that you limit who receives your contact details and videos. These three parameters can be modified in your parameter application – Look for emergency SOs, then modify the parameters in emergency SOs and emergency sharing submenus.
A final suggestion is to light your phone’s ability to turn an alarm just by saying “stop”. This covers the risk that your auto-Endormi still half asleep cuts your alarm early, but because it is a hands-free approach, you do not have the risk of accidentally grasping your Emergency SOS. Although it can be capricious, and if “stop” does not work, you will always need to adopt a more practical approach to extinguish your alarm.
