The phone's own emergency call — when it can't be taken out

SOS in KidPair is pressed on the screen. If the phone is in a pocket or can't be opened, there is also the emergency call built into the phone itself: a few quick presses of the power button — and the phone calls the emergency number and can send you a message with its location. It is the phone's feature, not KidPair's: it works when KidPair is closed too, but it has to be switched on in advance — on the child's phone, together with the child.

Android. Almost every phone with Android 12 or newer has it: Samsung, Xiaomi, Redmi, POCO, Honor, Pixel and others. The menu names differ, so the easiest way is the search in “Settings”: type “SOS” or “emergency”.

1. On the child's phone open the emergency call in “Settings” (on Samsung: “Settings” → “Safety and emergency”).
2. Turn on the call by pressing the power (side) button five times.
3. Add emergency contacts — Mum's and Dad's numbers. On Samsung: “Contacts” → your own profile → “Emergency contacts”.
4. If there is an option to send the location or messages to emergency contacts, turn it on.
5. Keep the countdown before the call: accidental presses in a pocket can still be cancelled.

iPhone. Every iPhone with a current iOS has it.

1. “Settings” → “Emergency SOS” → turn on “Call with 5 Presses”. Holding the side button together with a volume button works too.
2. Contacts: the Health app → the profile picture → “Medical ID” → “Emergency Contacts” → “Edit” — add your numbers.
3. After the emergency call the iPhone sends these contacts a message with its location and for a while tells them when the location changes.

Got such a message? Open KidPair: the child's location is on the map. If the child has Android, you can turn on “Home” → “Sound around” (with the subscription), but only after the emergency call has ended: during the call the phone gives the microphone to the call alone. On a child's iPhone “Sound around” works only after an SOS in KidPair.