{"id":99289,"date":"2018-03-23T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=99289"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:35:20","slug":"how-to-activate-the-panic-button-on-android-in-case-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-activate-the-panic-button-on-android-in-case-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"How to activate the \u201cpanic button\u201d on Android in case of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re browsing casually with your smartphone, and suddenly ad pages start to appear (all of them suspicious, let\u2019s be real). One, two, three\u2026 and so on until your cell phone basically stops responding. Did you know there\u2019s a way to <\/span>stop this process<\/b>, so it doesn\u2019t freak you out again? At Softonic, we want to help you the next time this happens, so we\u2019re going to show you <\/span>how to enable the \u201cpanic button\u201d on Android in case of emergency<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What it\u2019s for<\/b><\/h2>\n

Before showing you how to use it, we think it\u2019s important to explain <\/span>what it\u2019s for<\/b>. As we\u2019ve mentioned before, the <\/span>\u201cpanic button\u201d<\/b><\/span> is an option that Google developers introduced in the Android Nougat for when your cell phone isn\u2019t responding as you\u2019d like. <\/span><\/p>\n

This can happen for several reasons: ad pages open in the browser as we\u2019ve noted; an app has gotten control of the device without permission; some program isn\u2019t working correctly and got stuck, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of the \u201cpanic button\u201d is, as the name suggests, <\/span>so we don\u2019t start to panic<\/b>. With it, we won’t freak out when we see our Smartphone isn\u2019t working right.<\/span><\/p>\n

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