Get help in an emergency with Google Pixel Watch safety features

Google Pixel Watch can connect you to emergency services if you need help. If you've unlocked your watch at least once since startup, you can also call an emergency contact without unlocking it.¹ With Google Pixel Watch 2, all safety features, including the new Safety Check⁷ are available to use with or without your phone nearby.

Google Pixel Watch Wi-Fi needs to be in range of your phone and connected with Bluetooth for your phone to call emergency services. You will not be able to talk to emergency services from your watch if your watch is not connected to a phone through Bluetooth.

Google Pixel Watch LTE needs an active LTE connection on your watch to call emergency services. Safety Signal is available on Google Pixel Watch 2 LTE with Fitbit Premium.

If you don't have an LTE carrier on your watch, Safety Signal⁵ allows you to use safety features without your phone nearby. An active Fitbit Premium Subscription will enable phone-free connectivity through Safety Signal. For more information, go to Use Safety Signal on Google Pixel Watch 2.

Certain regions require an active LTE carrier or Safety Signal to support emergency calls placed from a Pixel Watch.

Turn on and use safety features on Pixel Watch

Learn how to turn on and use these different safety features:

Emergency SOS

Emergency SOS signals help in an emergency. Activate Emergency SOS by quickly pressing the crown 5 consecutive times. Performing this action will either call emergency services or an emergency contact of your choosing.

Note: Google Pixel Watch Wi-Fi may not be able to call all emergency numbers in all countries. Google Pixel Watch LTE may not be able to call emergency numbers in all countries without an active LTE connection or Safety Signal.

You can talk to the emergency responders as usual. If your phone has Emergency Location Service turned on and the emergency responder in your region is set up with ELS, then they may also receive your location. For Google Pixel Watch LTE, Emergency Location Service is on by default. To check that your ELS is turned on for your watch, press the crown and tap Personal Safety Emergency Location Service Turn on Use emergency location service.

Note: This does not set up Emergency SOS on your Pixel phone.

Fall detection

Only in Pixel-supported countries. Not available in Germany.

When a hard fall is detected, your Google Pixel Watch will wait about 30 seconds and then will vibrate, ring loudly, and ask if you want to call emergency services for help.² If you don't move, don't respond to, or don't dismiss the alert, your watch will vibrate, sound an alarm, and wait 60 seconds before placing a call to emergency services with an automated voice message letting them know your Pixel Watch detected a fall. If you have granted permission to share your location, your Google Pixel Watch will share your location with emergency services.

Note: If you have Fall detection turned on and travel to an unsupported region, Fall detection will be temporarily unavailable.

How Fall Detection helps emergency services get to you

When a hard fall is detected and you don't respond to the alert after 60 seconds, Pixel Watch can share your location in the automated voice message played to emergency services during the call.

Note: For users who enabled Fall Detection and did not grant Personal Safety "while in use" location permission, you will need to update Fall Detection so that it can share your location with emergency services in the automated voice message.

To update Fall Detection:

1. On Google Pixel Watch, press the crown.
2. Tap Personal Safety Fall detection Update now.

Emergency Sharing

Emergency Sharing sends your real-time location and updates to your emergency contacts.

1. On Google Pixel Watch, press the crown.
2. Tap Personal Safety  Emergency sharing.
3. Select the contacts you want to share your location with and tap Share real-time location.
4. To stop Emergency sharing, tap Stop Emergency Sharing Stop Emergency Sharing .

Emergency Sharing settings

Set up the information to be shared with your Emergency Contacts.

1. On Google Pixel Watch, press the crown.
2. Tap Personal Safety Your info Emergency Info Access.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap Settings.
4. Select the information you want to share with your Emergency Contacts during an Emergency Share.
5. Turn on or off Multi-device location sharing.⁸

Safety Check

Allows your Watch to set a check-in timer to ensure that you're safe. If you don't confirm that you're okay at the set time, Safety Check will automatically share your location with your emergency contacts.

1. On Google Pixel Watch, press the crown.
2. Tap Personal Safety Safety Check.
3. Select your activity.
4. Set the timer duration.
5. Select the contacts you want to share your location with and tap Start timer.
   Note: You can decide to let your contacts know when you start or cancel a Safety Check or you can just set Safety Check to notify contacts if you don't respond at the end of the timer. This automatically escalates to an Emergency Share.
6. To stop Safety Check, tap End safety check or Stop Safety Check Stop Safety Check .

Medical information

1. On your phone, open the Personal Safety app.
2. Tap Your info Medical information.
3. Fill in your medical information. To help in an emergency, people can view this info even with a locked watch.

Note: Samsung users won't have this feature because they have a separate safety app.

Share Emergency Info with emergency services

Use the Personal Safety app to send info to emergency services.

On your phone:

1. Open your Personal Safety app.
2. Tap Your info Emergency Info access Share during emergency call.

On your Watch:

1. Open your Personal Safety app.
2. Scroll to Emergency Info.
3. Tap Emergency Info access Share during emergency call.

¹ _{Google Pixel Watch operates using radio signals, which cannot guarantee connection in all conditions. Never rely solely on any wireless device for emergency communications.}

_{2 Fall Detection works by using motion sensors on your Pixel Watch. Keep in mind, high-impact activities may trigger fall detection. Fall detection can’t detect all falls.}

_{3 Emergency SOS: Emergency SOS requires location enabled and 4G LTE service or an internet connection. Emergency SOS is dependent upon network connectivity and other factors and may not be reliable for emergency communications or available in all countries or languages. Go to g.co/pixelwatch/personalsafety for more details.}

_{4 Fall Detection: Fall Detection is not available in all countries and depends on network connectivity and other factors. Your watch may not be reliable for emergency communications. Fall Detection may not detect all falls. To call emergency services on a Google Pixel Watch without 4G LTE, your paired phone must be nearby. Users must grant location permission for Fall Detection to share location externally. Data rates may apply. Go to g.co/pixelwatch/personalsafety for more details.}

_{5 Safety Signal: Not available on Pixel Watch 2 (Wi-Fi) or in all countries. Safety Signal requires location enabled and, in cases of emergency, provides Fitbit Premium subscribers without a 4G LTE watch line with access to a 4G LTE network for use of safety features only. When your watch is not connected to your phone, Safety Signal does not support Wi-Fi calling.}

_{6 Emergency Sharing: Data rates may apply. Emergency Sharing requires location enabled and 4G LTE service or an internet connection. Emergency Sharing is dependent upon network connectivity and other factors and may not be reliable for emergency communications or available in all countries or languages. Go to g.co/pixelwatch/personalsafety for more details.}

_{7 Safety Check: Data rates may apply. Safety Check requires location enabled and 4G LTE service or an internet connection. Safety Check is dependent upon network connectivity and other factors and may not be reliable for emergency communications or available in all countries or languages. Go to g.co/pixelwatch/personalsafety for more details.}

_{8 When multi-device location sharing is turned on for your device, we will use that device’s location as a backup in the case you start an Emergency Share on another device, but that device can no longer share its location.}

_{Emergency SOS requires location enabled and 4G LTE service or an internet connection. Fall detection and Emergency SOS are dependent upon network connectivity and other factors and may not be reliable for emergency communications and available in all areas or languages. Fall detection may not detect all falls. Auto-dialling to emergency services is not available in all countries. Go to g.co/pixelwatch/personalsafety for more details.}