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  • Apple's Emergency SOS feature foils attempted sexual assault

    jd_in_sb said:
    Not sure how she was able to press the power button and volume down button simultaneously while being assaulted. 

    I have actually accidentally triggered this twice so far.

    Basically i used to use Airplay from my iPhone to a wireless Dac which allowed me to play music remotely to my tube stereo.
    I turned off 'sound check' (which normally compresses the music to make the volume changes between songs more 'even') because i wanted to maximize sound quality/dynamics.
    So I often play music on shuffle and sometimes between songs like classical guitar to modern/synth rock could become quite a volume jump since sound check was not on. I would often have the phone on the floor next to my chair and if there was a big jump in volume i would try to lower it with the volume buttons (because of apartment neighbors).
    However since the power button is on the opposite side i somehow accidentally activated the sos when trying to do rapid presses of the volume. When i heard the sos chime, i tried to cancel the emergency that came up on the screen but regardless each time i got a call back from emergency services and i had to give them information about my name and address and tell them it was an accident etc for them to not send a car over.

    So just trying to mash the volume buttons triggered this for me.
    dysamoriawatto_cobra