Emergency SOS feature on your iPhone

1. Rapidly press the side button five times. The Emergency SOS slider will appear.

2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call emergency services.

On iPhone 8, iPhone 8Plus and iPhone X

1. Press and hold the side button and one of the Volume buttons until the Emergency SOS slider appears.

2. Drag the Emergency SOS slider to call emergency services.

If you continue to hold down the side button and Volume button, instead of dragging the slider, a countdown begins and an alert sounds. If you hold down the buttons until the countdown ends, your iPhone automatically calls emergency services

When Auto Call is on and you try to make an emergency call, your iPhone begins a countdown and sounds an alert.

After the countdown ends, your iPhone automatically calls emergency services.

You can turn OFF Auto Call if you are worried that you might set off Emergency SOS off by accident.

For my client, we definitely want to turn AUTO CALL On

1. Open the Health app and tap the Medical ID tab.
2. Tap Edit, then scroll to Emergency Contacts.
3. Tap  to add an emergency contact.
4. Tap a contact, then add their relationship.
5. Tap Done to save your changes.

Here’s how to remove emergency contacts:

1. Open the Health app and tap the Medical ID tab.
2. Tap Edit, then scroll to Emergency Contacts.
3. Tap  next to a contact, then tap Delete.
4. Tap Done to save your changes.

You can’t set emergency services as an SOS contact.