Accidental calls from your Apple Watch to the emergency services aren't great. Here's how to stop them happening.

YOUR phone can save your life – you just need the right settings. There are plenty of hidden iPhone tricks that come in handy ...

The button is being pressed while people’s phones are in their pockets, further filling up already stretched emergency call handlers. He asked that people disable the feature to help reduce demand.

A man was forced to make a frantic 999 call from outside an A&E department as he said hospital staff refused to help a seriously ill friend who was having a seizure. Frank Bourne, 74, rushed Debbra ...

The High court has given CCK, mobile phone service providers and the police service until end month to restore the 999 emergency response number.

An investigation has been launched into BT after 999 stopped working for dozens of emergency services on Sunday morning. Watchdog Ofcom said it was looking into the UK-wide issue that meant many ...

It's linked to Apple's Emergency SOS feature, a standard iOS feature on your iPhone. With Emergency SOS, you can press and hold the side button plus either volume button to make an emergency call.

Police forces in the UK are seeing a "record number" of false calls to 999, the UK's emergency services number, and the culprit is apparently Android. As the BBC reports, Android 12 added an easy ...

The Emergency SOS feature designed to help users contact emergency services on Android phones is easy to activate by mistake, causing a rise in “butt dials” to the UK’s 999 switchboard.

IT Could be a life or death situation which makes an emergency button on your phone essential. Here, we look at how you can access emergency settings on iPhone and Android. How do you activate Emer… ...

A staggering one in five 999 callers in the West Midlands were kept waiting over a minute to be connected this summer as the region's stretched police resources struggled to cope with the volume ...