Marion County Fire Rescue is crediting an iPhone for helping save a man’s life after his pickup truck crashed through a fence ...

How to stop your iPhone from automatically calling 911 On your iPhone, head to Emergency SOS in the Settings app. To stop Emergency SOS from auto-dialing 911, disable both Call with Hold and ...

How to prevent your iPhone from accidentally calling 911. To disable the two quick-access options, launch the Settings application and go into Emergency SOS. Next, toggle off the following two ...

It’s not every day that an iPhone is celebrated as a hero, especially by firefighters. A Florida man wrecked his truck and ...

How to not accidentally call 911. The default setting for iPhone 8/8 Plus and later has the ‘Auto Call’ for Emergency SOS turned on. This means that if you hold down the side button and either ...

How to call 911 on an iPhone. If you’re using an iPhone, the Emergency SOS feature will call emergency services and notify your emergency contacts when you can’t.

More than 240 million 911 calls are made each year, handled in the U.S. by around 6,000 call centers managing 25,000 different software systems. Calls made by landlines can give these centers an ...

We used to teach kids to call 911 on a landline. Consider these next skills essential for all ages today. If you’re using an iPhone 7 and earlier, you start SOS mode by pressing the side button ...

The iPhone 14’s new Crash Detection feature, which is supposed to alert authorities when it detects you’ve been in a car accident, has an unexpected side effect: it dials 911 on rollercoasters.

It’s not only the Apple Watch that is triggering 911/999 calls. The Crash Detection feature on the iPhone has also been blamed for an increase in emergency calls from ski slopes and ...

There is no doubt that Apple's iPhone is a versatile tool for business or personal use, but Newswatch 16 has found the one version of the iPhone that has what some people would call a glitch. That ...

The iPhone also sent a geo-location to fire rescue crews after the crash happened around 5:30 a.m. Monday. It took about 30 minutes for first responders to safely get the driver out of his truck.