{"id":1061580,"date":"2022-04-20T07:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/how-this-iphone-feature-saved-a-mans-life-and-how-to-use-it\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T07:31:32","slug":"how-this-iphone-feature-saved-a-mans-life-and-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/how-this-iphone-feature-saved-a-mans-life-and-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How this iPhone feature saved a man\u2019s life, and how to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A British fitness influencer and personal trainer credited his iPhone\u2019s emergency feature with saving his life after a recent snowboarding accident.<\/p>\n

In a detailed Instagram post, Tim Blakely explained his ordeal of plunging through a 5-meter gap of ice while snowboarding on a Swiss mountain, in a detailed Instagram post.<\/p>\n

In the post, Blakely shares images taken within the creek of ice he fell through. Meanwhile, his smartphone became wet from dripping ice, making it difficult to use.<\/p>\n

However, with just 3% of his smartphone\u2019s battery life left, Blakely used the iPhone\u2019s Emergency SOS, which allows users to activate an emergency distress call by pressing the side button five times.<\/p>\n

Tim Blakely, a British fitness influencer and personal trainer, credits his iPhone\u2019s emergency feature with saving his life. Picture Instagram @mrtimblakely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the post, Blakely thanked Apple and his network provider for giving him a 3G signal to call for help, typically difficult to achieve in such conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thank you to Apple, their side button 5 click to emergency services \u2013 especially great when your screen is constantly being dripped on, and to the service provider for giving me 3G connection and 3% battery 5m below the ice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If Blakely had not been able to signal, he believes the situation would have been more severe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe alternative to this has been keeping me up at night, to say the least. To walk \/hobble away from this relatively unharmed & make my flight back to London that evening is quite the headf*ck. Life 2.0 starts now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

How to access SOS Emergency settings on your smartphone:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The feature is available on iPhones and sends a distress call to emergency services along with your current location.<\/p>\n

Once activated, the signal will update your location every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

To ensure the feature is activated on your iPhone:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Open the settings<\/p>\n

\u2013 Select Emergency SOS<\/p>\n

\u2013 Select Call with Side Button<\/p>\n

If you do not have an iPhone and want to activate a feature like this on Android smartphones, go into settings, search \u201cSOS\u201d, or scroll \u201cPasswords and Security\u201d on most devices to find the feature.<\/p>\n

You can also set your emergency contacts and auto-dialling with a five-button tap.<\/p>\n

IOL WEALTH<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A British fitness influencer and personal trainer credited his iPhone\u2019s emergency feature with saving his life after a recent snowboarding accident. In a detailed Instagram post, Tim Blakely explained his ordeal of plunging through a 5-meter gap of ice while snowboarding on a Swiss mountain, in a detailed Instagram post. In the post, Blakely shares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}