Personal Safety

Google LLC

About this app

Personal Safety is an app that helps you prepare and react in an emergency by quickly connecting you with the help and information you need.

Features

On phones
• Emergency SOS: Get help in an emergency by pressing the power button quickly 5 times or more. Then, your phone can:
\t ◦ Call emergency services or any number you choose
\t ◦ Share your location and critical info with your emergency contacts
\t ◦ Record, back up, and share a video

• Emergency Sharing: Share your real-time location and critical info with your emergency contacts. Also works with Google Assistant.

• Safety Check: Set a check-in timer for your phone to confirm you’re safe. If you don’t respond when the timer runs out, Emergency Sharing automatically starts. Also works with Google Assistant.

• Car crash detection (Pixel phones only): Get help calling emergency services after a car crash. If your Pixel phone detects that you've been in a crash, it can call for help automatically. Not available for all countries, languages, and devices. For availability details, go to g.co/pixel/carcrashdetection.

• Crisis alerts: Get notified about natural disasters and public emergencies near you.

• Medical info and emergency contacts: You can make this info visible when your phone is locked. In supported countries, you can also choose to automatically share this info if you contact emergency services.

On Pixel Watch
• Fall Detection: Your watch can detect a hard fall and call for help.

• Emergency SOS: Press the crown quickly 5 times or more to call emergency services or an emergency contact.

• Emergency Sharing, Safety Check, medical info, and emergency contacts are also available on Pixel Watch.

Ratings and reviews

It just installed, but there's no icon in the app drawer, and it's nowhere to be found in the settings menus. A one-time intro came up to get it going, but that's now gone too, so no apparent way to get back to it. UPDATE: app has now appeared in settings menu, with a link to add app to app drawer to get all of the features. Changed from initial 1 star to 3 stars. May revise again after checking out the functionality.

Ok, so I got it to work. Not because it didn't work but because it didn't show up anywhere on my phone (App list or Settings). I went online to search for a solution. To those having a problem turning it on (it's pretty dumb that it isn't automatic in my case) Go into Settings > About Phone > Emergency Information > Turn on Safety (It appeared at the bottom right side on my Pixel 2XL)

After OS update, this little jewel started randomly calling 911. It's happened 4 times today. After the 1st, it got stuck in a 10 minute reboot loop. I thought my phone was broken and reached out to my boss. Happy New Year! I can't access anything. The 2nd time, it froze the phone and I had to power it down. Now it's happened again at 1AM. UNACCEPTABLE. Also? if I was in actual trouble and needed a discreet way to notify someone, a shrill alarm sure isn't going to do me any favors.

What’s new

On phones
• Personal Safety has a new design
• Emergency SOS: Add a confirmation step
• Car Crash Detection: Now in Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, and India

On Pixel Watch• Now available: Fall Detection, Emergency SOS, Emergency Sharing, Safety Check, and more
• Fall Detection: Available in more countries: http://g.co/pixelwatch/falldetection