The emergency contacts feature on iPhones works using a combination of the Contacts and Health apps that come installed with the iOS mobile system.

Here's how to select trustworthy people in the event of a problem, serious or not, but which requires an emergency. This way you can easily and quickly call for help and notify your emergency contacts.

To add emergency contacts, you must first fill out your medical file in the Health app.

In order for your medical file to be accessible from the lock screen of your iPhone, activate the option “Show in locked mode”. In an emergency, people who want to help you have information. To share your medical file with emergency responders, activate “Share during an emergency call”. When you call or text emergency services on your iPhone or Apple Watch, your medical record is automatically shared with emergency services.

Further down in your medical file, insert the emergency contacts who will receive a message indicating that you have called the emergency services with “Urgence SOS”, who will also receive your current location.

It is possible to add emergency contacts by selecting them in the Contacts application. For the person to contact, open their file and, at the very bottom of it, you will find the function “Add to emergency contacts”.

To quickly call for help, the emergency call function is directly accessible on the locked screen.

From iPhone 8s, just press one of the volume buttons and the side button until the “Emergency call” slider appears (SOS emergency).

On an iPhone 7 or earlier, just quickly press the side or top button five times to bring up the “Emergency Call” slider.

When the call ends, your iPhone sends a text message to your emergency contacts with your current location, which will be updated if you move.

All this hoping that you never have to use this function.

More details on:

The medical card.

And the Emergency Call feature.