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Just to clarify and expand a bit: It’s 5 presses not 6, and you can do it in your pocket because it gives you a haptic feedback signal when it works, of a quick vibration in a unique pattern.
It’ll also trigger a call to 911, which is gonna be hard to disable in your pocket
Edit: this is configurable behavior
No it doesn’t. It just locks the screen and requires passcode. It’s the same thing that happens if you hold power and volume to bring up the emergency call or power off screen.
I just tested on my iPhone and it does. Guessing it’s a setting.
… and after checking it is indeed a setting. Not sure if I turned that on or if it was on by default.
Which setting is it?
Emergency SOS, few different settings in there that change the behaviour
It did for a hot minute. I just checked and it no longer does.