A good friend of mine was involved in a pretty serious accident today, his iPhone recognized the accident, and sent an SOS immediately to his emergency contacts. I thought mine were up to date, but after looking, none were set up. This feature really surprised me today.

Very handy feature. It's a good reason to not only keep your contacts up to date but also keep your medical information up to date. That can all be sent to EMS and contacts automatically. Also a good reason to keep a relatively updated phone. Hardware changes quickly. I prefer to upgrade phones so they are no older than 2 years.

What did it send to the emergency contacts?

I had a friend have his phone overheat on him and it send a note saying SOS and a pin of his location. Ended up being a false alarm, but had I not been able to confirm he was okay I could have sent it to local police.

"Crash Detected SOS
I called emergency services from this approximate location after iPhone detected a crash. You are receiving this message because I have listed you as an emergency contact."

With a pin of the location of the accident.

As someone who works in EMS, it would also be helpful to have a list of medications, medical conditions, allergies to medications and contact info for the patient and family typed up to send with the crew to transport. It is really helpful with pediatric and elderly patient's that do not make their own healthcare decisions or have chronic illnesses.

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It gives that option but obviously you have to fill it out

Corps_Ag12 said:

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It gives that option but obviously you have to fill it out

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To clarify, I mean typed and printed on a piece of paper that can be handed to the crew if called to a residence.