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tegyriusYou may have run across a meme which advises you to put "in case of emergency" - ICE - information in your phone's contact list. The idea is that when first responders recover your unconscious body, they can check your phone and immediately know who to call.
Great idea, but it tends to be foiled by the same technology that facilitates it. Most of us these days carry locked smartphones. Obviously, if you're incapacitated, you won't be unlocking that phone to show the nice officer your ICE contact.
The solution, then, is to embed that information in the wallpaper image of your phone's unlock screen. Scrawl it on a piece of paper and take a photo of it, or use image editing software to create a JPG... or, if you're running iOS, install Acadian Ambulance's I.C.E. App (free). It has some other features which are of marginal usefulness in a locked phone, but it does a nice job of pasting your selected contact's info onto an image already in your photo album and saving the modified image to your camera roll. Then you can select the new image for your lock screen, as shown in the first screenshot on the iTunes page in the link.
This concludes today's PSA.
Great idea, but it tends to be foiled by the same technology that facilitates it. Most of us these days carry locked smartphones. Obviously, if you're incapacitated, you won't be unlocking that phone to show the nice officer your ICE contact.
The solution, then, is to embed that information in the wallpaper image of your phone's unlock screen. Scrawl it on a piece of paper and take a photo of it, or use image editing software to create a JPG... or, if you're running iOS, install Acadian Ambulance's I.C.E. App (free). It has some other features which are of marginal usefulness in a locked phone, but it does a nice job of pasting your selected contact's info onto an image already in your photo album and saving the modified image to your camera roll. Then you can select the new image for your lock screen, as shown in the first screenshot on the iTunes page in the link.
This concludes today's PSA.