Accidental 911 calls from Android phones on the rise in Ontario

This comes after a recent software update that might have re-enabled the Emergency SOS feature on Android devices.

The RCMP in British Columbia said that its dispatch centers also received several accidental 911 calls per day from Android phones in May.

Accidental 911 calls can have a significant impact on emergency services and waste valuable resources.

It’s worth noting that accidental Emergency SOS calls aren’t native to Android.

It was discovered that Crash Detection also sometimes gives false positives when the user participates in winter sports like skiing.

In December last year, an iPhone stashed in the glove box of a snowmobile in British Columbia’s backcountry falsely alerted authorities about an emergency.