{
  "id": 2551408,
  "title": "5 Android safety features you probably aren’t using — and how to turn them on",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/5-android-safety-features-you-probably-arent-using-and-how-to-turn",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-22T09:30:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Android Authority",
    "slug": "android-authority",
    "url": "https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-safety-features-2026-3699788/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "1. Android continues to lead in global smartphone sales, and Google has enhanced health and safety features across all devices.\n\n2. These features, such as Personal Safety and unknown tracker alerts, function in the background but many users haven't enabled them due to additional setup requirements.\n\n3. Five critical safety settings should be configured on your Android smartphone immediately.\n\n4. Safety Check, a feature that alerts loved ones of your personal safety and can take action in emergencies, requires you to check-in after a set time. If you miss the check-in, your emergency contacts will receive your last known location.\n\n5. The Emergency SOS feature, available on Android 13 and later, enables you to share your location with emergency contacts by rapidly pressing the power button. It can also automatically start recording a video clip which is then shared with your contacts.\n\n6. Heads Up, a feature often overlooked by users, reminds you to stop scrolling through your phone while walking and pay attention to your surroundings. It uses location data to detect outdoor activity and can send alerts with sound and vibration.\n\n7. Car Crash Detection, exclusive to Pixel phones starting with the Pixel 4a, is an additional safety feature that can be enabled in the Safety app. In case of a car crash, you can confirm your safety via voice command.",
  "summary": "Some of the best ones need to be manually set up.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}