Did you know that you can set an emergency contact for the police or paramedics to call from your locked Samsung Galaxy mobile phone? If you’re ever in an emergency it could save your life!

You do this by creating a dedicated ICE Emergency Contact group in your contacts and adding in your key emergency contacts, and then enabling the calling of emergency contacts from your lock screen. You can even set multiple ICE (in case of emergency) contacts.

Create a dedicated ICE Emergency Contacts group in your contacts:

• Open the App Menu from your home screen
• Open the Contacts App
• Tap the Groups button (displayed top right)

• A list of default groups will display – select the ICE contacts group
• Tap Edit

  

   

• Add your emergency contacts
• Hit Save when you’re done

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  Enable the calling of emergency contacts from your lock screen:

• Ensure your Samsung Galaxy screen is locked and then access the lock screen (but don’t unlock it)
• Hold the phone icon in the lower left corner and drag it to the centre of the screen
• Once the keypad appears hit the Emergency button
• From the screen that comes up you can add your emergency contacts
• Hitting the + symbol to add each new contact – you can select up to 3 from the ICE contacts group you created earlier

  

  Once you’ve followed the steps above, you’ll have your Samsung Galaxy emergency ready. Hopefully it’s never needed, or if it is, it’s because someone has found your lost mobile phone and calls the emergency contact to get your phone back to you. (Wouldn’t that be nice?!)