Now you can share emergency location with Android phone, know both app and steps here

Both Android and iOS smartphones have the feature to alert trusted friends and relatives in case of an emergency. This great feature of the smartphone shares your current location with acquaintances in difficult situations, so that they can easily reach you. Let us tell you about this feature in detail.

What is Emergency Location Sharing feature?

Pre-assigned contacts can be notified of the emergency from the lock screen of the Android smartphone. In an emergency, the device’s power button has to be pressed or held to send information to the assigned contact. How well this feature will work in your phone depends on the model of the phone and its Android version. Although the method of sending alerts is the same in all smartphones.

The emergency location share feature in smartphones has been coming for a long time, which allows the user to make an emergency call to 112 in difficult times. But now, the new inbuilt emergency location sharing feature also allows the user to share his/her medical information, blood type, health condition, medical reports, etc., so that help can reach the user at the earliest in case of emergency. We hope that no one ever needs to use this feature, but there is no doubt that it can come in handy in difficult situations.

Let us now tell you how to set up the inbuilt Emergency SOS for your location and medical details in emergency.

1. Press and hold the Power button of your smartphone for a few seconds.

2. Now tap on the button seen at the bottom of the screen.

3. After this your smartphone will automatically make an emergency call to 112. Cancel it.

4. Now tap on the option of Medical Information appearing on the screen along with other options.

5. Now enter whatever medical details you may need in case of emergency.

6. After entering all the information, click on the “Done” button.