San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has released the next iOS update, the first iOS 16.2 beta, to developers that will allow users to send a report to the company when emergency SOS has been triggered inadvertently.
As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple’s iOS 16.2 beta now solicits feedback from users when they cancel emergency SOS mode. A notification appears that opens the Feedback Assistant so that Apple can get data about what happened.
“Did you intentionally trigger emergency SOS on your iPhone?” reads the message.
Apple introduced a new feature that sends a response after canceling emergency SOS in response to last month’s “Wall Street Journal” report that reported crash detection accidentally called emergency services when the iPhone and Apple Watch users were riding a roller coaster.
However, the report was later updated to clarify that users were actually triggering emergency SOS by accidentally pressing the device’s buttons.
Emergency SOS is a feature that was introduced years ago in iOS devices that lets users quickly call emergency services by simply holding down the iPhone’s button for a few seconds.
With the iPhone 14, Emergency SOS is combined with crash detection, which uses the iPhone’s sensors to detect car accidents and automatically call emergency services.
In addition, iOS 16.2 introduces the new Freeform app, which allows users to simultaneously write and draw on a collaborative canvas.