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[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

It’ll also trigger a call to 911, which is gonna be hard to disable in your pocket

Edit: this is configurable behavior

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

No it doesn’t. It just locks the screen and requires passcode. It’s the same thing that happens if you hold power and volume to bring up the emergency call or power off screen.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I just tested on my iPhone and it does. Guessing it’s a setting.

… and after checking it is indeed a setting. Not sure if I turned that on or if it was on by default.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 10 hours ago

Emergency SOS, few different settings in there that change the behaviour

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

It did for a hot minute. I just checked and it no longer does.