News Android's Emergency SOS mishap is now a thing of the past

[AC News]

Google has added a new "touch and hold" step to its Personal Safety app to address those accidental emergency calls from your Android phone.

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[fuzzylumpkin]

I suspect the choices here are that it's so easy to use that it triggers accidentally, or they prevent it from triggering accidentally and no one who needs it can use it.


This is potentially a very dangerous change. Think of someone in a desperate situation surreptitiously pressing the power button of the device in their pocket 5 times because they have been assured this will summon help and nobody gave them the memo that there is now an onscreen button to touch and hold...