EMERGENCY INFORMATION ACCESS ON PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES

摘要

Improved techniques for facilitating emergency access to one or more contacts stored on a portable electronic device are disclosed. One or more contacts on the portable electronic device are designated as emergency contacts. While the portable electronic device is password-locked, a request to display the one or more emergency contacts on the password-locked portable electronic device is received. Without requiring a password, the one or more emergency contacts are displayed on the portable electronic device.

主权项

1. A method for displaying emergency contacts in an emergency call screen, the method comprising:
by a computing device that is password-locked:
receiving a request to enter the emergency call screen;retrieving one or more emergency contacts from a list of contacts;for each contact of the one or more emergency contacts:displaying, within the emergency call screen, a user interface control, wherein the user interface control includes a name for an emergency contact, but does not include a phone number for the emergency contact.