There was a time when the three most important things for living were "bread, cloth and house", in Bengali food, clothing, shelter. The fourth thing on this list today stands out. Yes, that's right, mobile phones. We keep our smartphones or mobiles with us all day long. We immerse ourselves all the time on Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, chatting, video calls. Mobile phones, which have become one of the most important and essential parts of our lives, are commonly used for calls, messages, and entertainment, but these mobile phones have some features that can save a person's life in a dangerous moment. Everyone's phone has the option of "Emergency Call", but there are very few people who know how to use this feature and understand how important this feature is.

Today, almost every smartphone user keeps his phone locked. Because of passwords, PINs, patterns, fingerprints, and face locks, no one can unlock our phone without our help. Thanks to these security features, our phones are protected, but if someone suddenly has an accident, how will the people in his house be notified? But in such a situation, the most important thing is to inform his house. Then the lock of the phone creates a big problem. The Emergency Call feature is designed with this type of situation in mind. So that the home of the accident victim can be informed quickly without unlocking the phone.

How to activate Emergency Calls on your phone?

1. Lock the phone first and come to the home page.

2. From where you will unlock the phone, you will get the option of Emergency Call, click on it.

3. Touch Emergency Call will open the keypad on your phone and the option to add numbers to the "+" Emergency Contact. Touch here.

4. The command to unlock the phone will come before adding the number to the emergency contact. Unlock the phone using your unlock pattern or fingerprint or the feature you used to lock the phone.

5. After unlocking the phone, the contact list will open, select the numbers of your family members and friends from here.

6. After selecting the number, press the back button of the phone. Now your Emergency Contact option will show and your selected contact will show in this list.

7. That means your chosen phone number has been added to the Emergency Contact List. Some phones also ask for your medical information here. If you want, you can give the information here if you have a blood group and any disease, this information becomes very helpful in case of an emergency.

Once the number is added to the Emergency Contact list, any person can call your selected number from your phone without unlocking your phone.

How to use it?

Once the numbers of your friends and family have been added to the emergency contact list, those numbers will be saved in that list.

1. If you want to make an emergency call from another person's phone, press the home button, or touch the fingerprint sensor.

2. A wrong password will open the pattern keypad of the phone.

3. Under this keypad, you will get the option of an emergency call, click on it.

4. Touch here to open the list of emergency contacts.

Just by tapping any number, the emergency call will go to that number and you will be able to inform the person about the situation.

You can also select from the phone book:

In addition to the Emergency Call option, you can also go directly to the phone book or contact list and select the number in the emergency contact list. For:

1. Open the contact list or phone book and go to that contact that you want to choose for Emergency Call.

2. After opening the contact, the option of Add to Emergency Contacts will be available with the name, number, organization, and email. Touch it.

3. If you touch this option, that number will be added to your Emergency C9ntact list.

4. You can select as many numbers as you want from the phone book. For this, you have to use the same method every time.

We hope you understand how important and necessary this feature is. So each of us should activate this feature on our own and the phones of all the people nearby.