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
Something that makes “accidental” emergency calls should have been caught in quality testing and should never have shipped.
Meh, it’s probably phones with very loose power buttons who are the culprit. I don’t think my current phone has gotten its power button accidentally pressed even once and I keep it in my pocket pretty much 16/7 [not while sleeping tho].
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.
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.
I understand that perfect detection isn’t possible, but I’m not sure that I like that the fix is to increase the amount of human interaction required during an actual emergency.
