It’s worth noting, that if you now hold down the Side button you’ll still get the Emergency SOS menu appear, ... It’s not only the Apple Watch that is triggering 911/999 calls.

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If a person presses the power button fives times or ... Mr Ivey said that on Saturday the Met Police had received an “unprecedented” 9,500 calls through 999, and 3,000 on non-emergency lines.

Then go to Settings > Emergency SOS and toggle the Call Quietly option on. Note that this only works if you're using either the "Call with Hold and Release" or "Call with 5 Button Presses" options.

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… ...

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.

THE BT 999/112 service is experiencing a “significant increase” in calls, due to an Android update, which initiates an emergency call when the side button is pressed five times.

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.