Every time the Cupertino-based company launches a new version of iOS, especially when it is a beta, little by little the developers are scrutinizing it to try to find all the functions that Apple does not communicate in the details of it. The arrival of iOS 10.2 in its final version, as it is currently in beta, offers us a panic button camouflaged within the operating system. This panic button will activate a kind of alarm on the iPhone and make a call to emergency services. This function can be very useful in cases of traffic accidents or to intimidate someone's intentions.
India is one of the countries with the most problems, to call them in some way, is putting Apple at the time of being able to start marketing its devices in the country. One of the last requirements made by the Indian government had to do with the inclusion of a panic button, button that could be used to quickly make a call to the emergency services when women are attacked or in danger.
Logically Apple had no intention of adding a new button to the terminals, and less if it was exclusively for a specific country, so it has implemented it within the terminal's sleep / start button. This panic button sand activate by pressing five times on that button, at which point the iPhone will begin to emit an acoustic alarm and begin to make a call to the emergency services.
In the podcast that we have in Actualidad iPhone, our colleague Luis Padilla tried this new function. You can see the result in the video above. By the way, if you like technology in general, I recommend that you join our podcast where We are not only talking about Apple, but we are also talking about technology in generalAlthough the Cupertino-based company's products play a special role.