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It’s absolutely a good feature.

I was a passenger in a car crash last year. I don’t remember where my phone ended up, but after the crash sent everything flying, I saw someone else’s phone in front of me and immediately activated the emergency 911 mode.

The phone I had picked up was also now cracked. I believe in this case it still ended up working, but if the digitizer was more damaged the only possible way to call 911 would be the gesture.



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