- A Reddit user accidentally activated SOS of emergency and shared a naked video of himself with his emergency contacts
- This shameful story (and fun) has caused some to consider emergency SOS on their Android phone
- Instead, you can change your SOS configuration to hinder activation, or configure it so as not to share video and audio.
The emergency characteristics of SOS on our phones have been cited as salvation of life, but accidental activations could be in life if you have an experience like that of an unfortunate Reddit user, who accidentally sent her 12 emergency contacts as a naked video of yourself. Fortunately, you don’t need to change the configuration to help you avoid the same shame.
The test occurred during the weekend when, in an effort to turn off the alarm of his morning phone, the user of user assistance68 says that they accidentally activated SOS of emergency, they suspect by pressing the ignition button of their phone five times. The alarm became a Whirring siren and the screen of his phone alerted them to call 911 and sent information to their emergency contacts.
They rushed to cancel SOS of emergency, but in doing so, they picked up their phone without knowing that the characteristic begins to capture a video that then sends to all their emergency contacts. Combine this with the fact that the user says he sleeps without clothes, and the result is that his contacts were sent a video of his completely naked friend.
If you want a good laugh, the complete publication about Reddit and the responses in the thread are worth it, especially knowing that after the situation was explained, all those involved also found him funny, but it is possible that he wonders what he can do for avoid. be in a similar situation.
How to change your SOS emergency configuration
Some obvious suggestions, but not too useful, would be emergency, use a different device such as alarm or sleep always with clothes, but there are some SOS emergency settings that can change instead to help you avoid disaster.
One is to configure your phone to require secondary action after pressing your ignition button five times before emergency mode, instead of this is automatic. In Pixel, this requires that you touch and maintain an icon on your phone’s screen for a couple of seconds, while in Samsung this requires that the phone’s symbol slide on the screen, such as when a call answers.
A second option is to change what details the emergency contacts receive. If you prefer, you can configure it so that your device does not send audio, images or video of your emergency to contacts. The disadvantage of turning off this is that these automatic recordings make it easy to show and explain their situation without writing a custom message, so keep that if you are thinking of turning it off.
A third option is to change who is on your emergency contact list to limit who receives your data and videos. The three configurations can be adjusted in their configuration application: search SOS of emergency and then alter the emergency SOS and the emergency exchange submenus.
A final suggestion is to turn on the ability of your phone to turn off an alarm simply saying “stop.” This runs the risk that your self -esteem is still asleep, but because it is a hands -free approach, it will not accidentally run your emergency SOS. Although it can be temperamental, and if “stop” it does not work, it will still need to adopt a more practical approach to turn off the alarm.
