• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    On iOS you can just hold the side button and one of the volume buttons to bring up the SOS menu, if you keep holding the buttons it’ll sound an alarm, do a countdown, and call the emergency services. You don’t actually need to interact with the screen. Obviously this means you’ll need to be able to squeeze your thumb and another finger together, but a phone with buttons would require you to be able to operate that somehow too.

    I think you could also try to ask Siri if that’s enabled.

    I’ve no idea about Android but I’d assume you can do something similar there.

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      9 months ago

      Lol on Android that same shortcut takes a screenshot hahahaha… I don’t know why that’s so funny to me.

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        9 months ago

        Just checked my Pixel - you’re right.

        It does on iOS as well. Though note the difference between holding and pressing. Pressing Power + Volume Up takes a screenshot, holding it (keeping it pressed) brings up the SOS stuff.