How to access and fill the Android emergency screen information

Michel
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:19:37 +0000
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Accessing the emergency screen of an Android phone

If you are involved with someone undergoing a medical emergency who has an Android phone, here is how to access his/her emergency screen information:

on the locked screen, tap on the faint “Emergency” line at the bottom of the screen:

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The phone displays a phone keyboard to dial an emergency number, as well as, at the top for my phone, a button to access emergency medical information, that needs to be double tapped:

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When you double tap the emergency medical information button, the phone displays the emergency medical information for the device owner:

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There is still, however, more information available. If you look carefully at the screen above, you will notice that there are two tabs in the red header. One, titled INFO, is active. The other one, titled CONTACTS, can be clicked:

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Filling the emergency screen information for an Android phone

Click Settings > Users > Emergency Information:

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All the information can be filled here. In the same way as when you want to access the contact information from the emergency screen, you need to select the CONTACTS tab at the top to fill that part.

Do note that you can only select from existing contacts when providing emergency contacts.

Which Android versions have an emergency screen

This emergency screen is available for all Android phones running at least Android N (Nougat), version 7.0 and above (released on July 16, 2016)

A note of caution

Anyone having access to your phone can get to this information, even if the screen is locked.

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