Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
You go into settings, then emergency SOS. If you’ve activated notifications, you’ll see something when you get in there that says something like terminate notifications or stop alerting or something like that I forget exactly what the wording is. Tap that and you’re good to go. Cheers, Donna Se

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread Jed Barton
Ya know when it happened to me, i forgot what happened, but for some reason voiceover went totally stupid, and all of a sudden i heard the phone ringing in my ear, and i knew what had happened, it was calling 911. Now i actually work in public safety so we get these calls all the time. The came on

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
How do you clear the SOS? My brother is my only emergency contact but he has an android. Would that affect anything? I am careful not to press the SOS feature. However, before I Mae my Brother my SOS contact, I woke up one day and pressed the SOS feature and the police answered as I hit it o

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Oh! That makes total sense. You’re right, that was very smart thinking on Apple’s part. It’s kind of funny, I sort of freaked out when I sent out the SOS, but now I’m sort of glad that I did. It’s nice to know what will happen if I ever need to do that. Thanks for all this info. Cheers, Donna

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread Jed Barton
So i found out the reason why you have to clear this, cause i called apple accessibility to find out. The idea is if you get transported to a hospital by ambulance, your emergency contacts will know where you are if you can't communicate with them. When i thought about it, i was like wow, brillian

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s managed to do this. Happily, my husband was sitting in the same room with me, so no problem there, but it did freak out my mother and sister-in-law. LOL By the way in case any of you wonder what happens when you send out an emergency SOS, all of your em

Re: Stopping emergency SOS notifications

2020-09-06 Thread Jed Barton
Ah, i had the same problem. What you have to do is go into settings and clear it. I think you go under emergency notifications, and clear it. Don't feel bad, had the same problem. On 9/6/20, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: > > > Hi all, > > This morning I accidentally sent out an emerg