A new feature will securely and accurately relay your location when you dial 911.
Apple made a big deal about our digital well-being (go. macworld.com/smad) when it unveiled iOS 12 (go.macworld. com/12bt) at WWDC, but there’s one feature it didn’t discuss that could have even greater life-saving benefits.
In a recent press release (go.macworld. com/e911), the company outlined how iPhones running iOS 12 will be able to share location data automatically and securely with first responders when you dial 911. Apple says this will help reduce emergency response times by providing faster and more accurate information that circumvents “outdated, landline-era infrastructure.”
This story is from the August 2018 edition of Macworld.
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