Regardless of its steep price, the iPhone is a fantastic phone, indeed. Unlike all other smartphone manufacturers, Apple always strives to release the new annual phone only when it is absolutely confident that it has something new to offer. There are many logical reasons that push you to prefer and buy an iPhone. The iOS system alone is enough to impress you, its support for all important and common apps is great, a clean phone free from annoying Bloatware apps that you can get rid of whenever you want, a security system that is impossible to breach, and many other great features that you can benefit from on the iOS system. However, if these features are not enough to convince you to buy an iPhone, here is more: an iPhone is capable of saving your life in 4 different ways, and here’s how.
1- Asking for help from Siri
In a situation where you cannot use your iPhone properly to get help, but you have an old phone, let it be an iPhone 6S, you can rely on the personal assistant Siri to ask for help on your behalf. All you need to do is say “Hey Siri” or “Hello Siri,” then tell her to call the number or contact you want, for example “Hey Siri, call 911” to make an emergency call immediately. To activate this feature on your iPhone, go to “Settings,” then “General,” then “Siri,” and then activate the option to allow “Hey Siri.”
2- Add specific contacts for emergencies
It is essential to have some trusted contacts to help you in emergencies, where these contacts are assigned as ICE or In Case of Emergency to contact them immediately and automatically in emergency situations. That is, when Siri asks you to make an emergency call, for example, or you use the SOS Emergency feature on the iPhone, automatically after the emergency call ends, the iPhone notifies the emergency contacts you specified through a text message, unless you choose to cancel this step, where the countdown starts and if not canceled, an SMS message containing your current location is sent to your emergency contacts, and continuous updates are also sent whenever your location changes after a period of activating SOS mode.
To add an emergency contact, go to the “Health” app and click on the profile picture, then press on “Medical ID,” and press on “Edit,” then scroll to “Emergency Contacts,” press the Add (+) button, select a contact, then add the relationship, and finally press “Done,” then save the changes.
3- Add medical ID
The “Medical ID” feature on the iPhone helps paramedics access important medical data from the lock screen directly, so they do not need a password to unlock the phone, and then they can see information such as allergies, medical conditions, and who to contact in case of emergency. Therefore, it is always important to add specific contacts in case of emergencies as explained in the previous paragraph.
To create a medical ID, open the “Health” app and click on the “Summary” tab in the bottom bar, then click on the profile picture at the top left and in the “Medical Details” window, click on “Medical ID.” Now click on “Edit” and enter health information such as your date of birth, allergies you suffer from, and blood type. To enable your “Medical ID” from the lock screen, activate the “Show on Lock Screen” option. In case of an emergency, those who want to help you will know information about you. This method is very useful because it allows others to access your necessary information and contact your close ones before it’s too late.
4- Use the Health app
The “Health” app gathers your health and fitness information in one place, as the app displays your number of steps and the number of calories burned throughout the day, among other things. It is definitely a very useful app for monitoring your health and knowing your physical condition by doctors who handle your case. While many data points are added automatically, the app relies on some of the information it displays on other health apps installed on your phone or Apple Watch connected to your phone, such as fitness, nutrition system, and health tracking, as well as details of your physical activity recorded and tracked from the step-tracking sensors on your phone.
You can also add data manually by going to the “Health” app and clicking on the “Browse” tab, then click on a category, such as “Activity,” and then select a subcategory, such as “Steps,” and click on “Add Data” at the top left, then enter the date, time, and data for this activity, and finally select the date, time, and data for this activity, and when finished, click on “Add.” Continue to add data regularly to track your progress.
