

That countdown will finish with the phone calling the emergency services, so this is particularly useful if you can’t take your phone out of a pocket. If you can’t slide this across, continue to hold down the buttons and you’ll find your phone makes an alert noise with a countdown. If you drag this across, it’ll make an immediate call to the emergency services.


Then, you’ll find a slider on the screen that says “Emergency SOS”. If you own an iPhone 8 or later (that’s if your phone came out after 2017) you can hold down the side button and the volume buttons.
