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Only recently, Apple decided to make public a patent application that would drastically increase the ease with which one could place a 911 call while in danger.

This patent application, filed last year, would allow iPhone users to tap into their iPhone’s battery reserves in order to place what could potentially be, a life-saving phone call.

According to HotHardware,

“The phone would recognize emergency calls when the user dialed an emergency number, such as 911 in the United States. But a number also could be stored as an “emergency number” on the phone (a spouse, child, parent, for example) or the user could manually put the phone in emergency mode.”

In addition to utilizing the iPhone’s battery reserve, this patent application also makes provisions for pre-recorded emergency messages to be played, these messages would be particularly helpful to 911 operators if the iPhone user was unable to speak clearly.

Lastly, this patent application prevents the user from accidentally ending the call with the slip of a finger. Instead of simply pressing “hang up,” the user might have to hit “hang up” and then type in a code of sorts.

Keep in mind that this is patent application is still in what some may call, “the concept phase,” and has yet to be implemented in any of Apple’s devices.

[HotHardware]

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