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Has your phone mount triggered the SOS feature on your iPhone again? Fortunately, you can toggle off the button-press-to-call action so you don't accidentally call the cops for the tenth time. While emergency SOS calls can be super helpful, they can also be annoying and frustrating when your pocket or purse sends a faulty SOS signal. This How.com.vn article teaches you how to turn off SOS on an iPhone.
Things You Should Know
- If you're consistently accidentally making emergency calls, you can turn off the shortcut buttons.
- Disable the shortcut buttons for emergency SOS by going to "Settings > Emergency SOS" and toggling off both "Call with" switches.
- If you're seeing "SOS ONLY" in your status bar, you don't have cell signal and can only make emergency calls.
Steps
Disabling Emergency SOS
- Tap Emergency SOS. You'll see this next to a red icon with the letters "SOS" on it.Advertisement
- Tap the switches next to each option to toggle them off. In the Emergency SOS menu, you'll see the options to "Call with Hold and Release" and "Call with 5 Button Presses". To keep from accidentally triggering either one of these options, tap the switches () to toggle them off. If the switch is white and pointing left, you can no longer trigger an emergency call by pressing buttons on your phone.
- Once you've done this, the only way you can make an emergency call other than dialing the number is to press the buttons to power off your iPhone and then drag the "Emergency Call" slider.
- If you have an iPhone 14 or later, you can also disable the "Call After Severe Crash" feature by tapping the switch to toggle it off. That feature can cause faulty calls for newer iPhone users.[1]
- If you have an Apple Watch, it can also call emergency services falsely. To disable that feature, open the Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab. Tap Emergency SOS and tap the switch next to "Hold Side Button to Dial" to toggle it off.[2]
- If your iPhone is stuck in the "Emergency Call" mode with the slider, try to force your iPhone to restart. In case you didn't get your iPhone out of the "Emergency Call" screen by forcing a restart, contact Apple Support.
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