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You can turn much of them off - https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/if-youve-ever-called-91...

I had to do this because the kids discovered that if they held down power off and then slid the bar over a nice woman would talk to them and then a big truck would show up!

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I let the kids play with an old flip phone, figuring they couldn't get up to too much trouble since it had no service.

Came downstairs to hear them talking about calling 911 - when I picked up the phone there were four outgoing calls!

Fortunately the big truck did not show up, so I guess the operator was able to figure out that there was not actually an emergency (or maybe the phone was too old to communicate its location).

Thanks, apparently I did turn them off at some point. Doesn’t appear to be a way to disable the emergency slider on Watch or iPhone though, unfortunately.

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