Samsung One UI 5.0 Emergency Sharing Feature

Along with the security of the smartphone, Samsung also takes good care of the safety of the users of those smartphones, that’s why the company has provided several features for safety and emergency. With the One UI 5.0 update, the company has added a new feature to the Safety and emergency section of the Settings i.e. Samsung Emergency Sharing.

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While Samsung has brought improvements and new features with the latest One UI version to provide a smoother experience to users, the security and emergency sections have also been enhanced. For the time being, let us know what is the Emergency Sharing feature.

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Samsung Emergency Sharing 

Samsung added an Emergency Sharing feature with the One UI 5 update to Galaxy devices. This is a safety feature that allows you to set the device to send information such as your location or your device lowers battery notification to your emergency contacts for a certain period of time.

The Emergency Sharing feature sends a message to two of your emergency contacts to let them know you need help. The message that will be sent will have the location, a warning of battery low, a picture that will be clicked automatically from the front and back camera, and a 5-second audio recording.

How to use it?

If you are using a Galaxy smartphone running Android 13-based One UI 5.0, then you can use it easily. Firstly, you have to enable this feature, and for that, you have to follow the steps mentioned below. Before following them, make sure to add emergency contacts and allow all permissions.

• Open the Setting on your Galaxy smartphone.
• Scroll down and tap on Safety and emergency section.
• Click on the Emergency Sharing option and turn on the two below listed toggles if you want.
  1. Attach Pictures: Take pictures with from the rear camera and include them in your messages
  2. Attach Audio: Records 5 seconds of Audio and include it in your messages.
• Now, you can press the Start emergency Sharing option.
• A pop-up appears to confirm emergency sharing, you can press Start.

Now a message will be sent to the 2 emergency contacts that are listed, which will have the live location and emergency help details that have been enabled by us. Every 15 minutes, your current location will be sent to the emergency contacts. There will be a notification in the notification panel when sharing starts, you can stop sharing from there.