Friends Assist

When you need urgent help press the ‘SOS’ button to send your location to a pre-selected group of friends, colleagues, and or family. Apple devices, will ask you to confirm sending the SMS.

Your phone dialer will also instigate an option to call a pre-selected contact, so you can tell them what you need.

Once you are safe press the ‘mark as safe button’. This will send a SMS telling the same contacts that you are OK.

In certain situations, such as bad weather, transportation and other issues, you can use the ‘mark as safe’ feature to let your contacts know that you are OK.

When you want someone to meet you at your location you can send them your location by pressing the ‘share my location’ button.

Share my location’ is useful for social meets and letting taxis and other services know how to get to your location.

The location is sent by SMS and it includes a link to Google Maps ™. Opening the link opens the map which will show both their and your location. They select ‘directions, and they are provided with the route to meet you.