Stealth Safety: Trigger An Emergency Alert Right From Your Pocket

Masked men threatening you? How do you alert others of the danger without opening or looking at you phone? Or even giving SIRI a verbal command.

Use the Back Tap feature on your iPhone with a Short Cut. It's free and simple to do. Here's how:

Back Tap

Back Tap is an iPhone feature that lets you perform actions like taking a screenshot or running a Shortcut by double-tapping the back of your phone. It acts like a custom button for quick access without navigating menus. You set it up in Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap, where you assign different functions to the double-tap gestures. 

iPhone Shortcuts

A shortcut provides a quick way to get things done with your apps, with just a tap or by asking Siri. Shortcuts automate a wide variety of things. Use the Shortcuts app to add ready-made or custom shortcuts to your devices. The ShortCut app lets you combine multiple steps across multiple apps to create powerful task automations.

Creating an Emergency Alert Short Cut

Follow the Apple guide to create your own Short Cut. In an emergency situation with masked men threatening you, it is helpful to let others know that you are in danger.

DemLabs created the DANGER Short Cut and shares it freely from iCloud. The Danger Short Cut collects your location, date, time and sends it as a text message immediately to the people you've chosen along with your phone number. All you have to do is tap the back of your phone twice.

Once you've downloaded the DANGER Short Cut on to your iPhone, remember to edit to include the names of the people you want to send the emergency alert.

How to download the free DANGER Short Cut

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d08d1e1ebb8347c6930b9efe95067ffe

Set up your own free Community Emergency Alert system.

• FastAlert is an online solution that allows you to alert others of a danger to your neighbors.
• Think of it as creating your own radio station with different 'channels' for different areas or interests. People can subscribe to a channel from their phone or laptop anonymously to get alerts.
• Channels can be set up in minutes and does not require an app, phone numbers, texting nor registration.
• Alerts are sent to both phones and laptops immediately in any language and can include phone numbers, URLs for more details.
• There is no cost to send out alerts as with text messages.
• Alerts can be targeted by area, type of danger (e.g. floods, fires, burglars etc)
• Neighbors can also send out alerts if they see anything suspicious
• FastAlert is currently free for public safety and neighborhood watch groups.

TakeAway: Use Short Cuts to send a discreet emergency alert from your pocket.
Create your own Emergency Alert System with FastAlert.Now to warn community members of danger.

Deepak
DemLabs

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