[Tip] How to Make Calls Directly from Lock Screen Without Unlocking Your Mobile Phone?

Recently I found myself in following situation:

I had to leave my 10 year old kid at home. I gave my secondary mobile phone to my kid so that he can call me whenever required or I can contact him. There were lots of important apps installed in that smartphone. Also I had many important documents so I didn’t want to tell him the lock code to unlock the smartphone. I just wanted to allow him to make call to my mobile number only in emergency.

Fortunately Google Android smartphones come with such feature where we can assign selected mobile numbers as emergency contacts and anyone can directly call those numbers from Lock Screen without any need of unlocking the mobile phone.

This feature might also come handy if you lose your mobile phone. In such situation if a good person gets your mobile phone, he can call you from Lock Screen and tell you where is your mobile phone currently so that you can get it back.

Sometimes you may need to call your family members urgently and the lock code, fingerprint, etc not working. In such condition, you can directly call them from lock screen without unlocking the phone.

So if you also want to put a few selected numbers on Lock Screen of your Android smartphone so that other people can call those numbers without unlocking the phone, following steps will help you:

1. Lock your smartphone by pressing the power button.

2. Don’t unlock it. Press power button to show Lock Screen.

3. Swipe up to show enter pin or lock code screen where you can type digits.

4. Tap on Emergency Call button given at the bottom.

5. Tap on (+) button to add emergency contacts. If you can’t find the Plus button, look for Medical Information or similar button and tap on it.

6. Your phone will ask to unlock. Unlock the phone using your fingerprints, pin, password, etc.

7. It’ll open Emergency Contacts page. Tap on Pencil or Edit icon to add contacts to emergency contacts list. Again tap on Add member button.

Now you can select desired contacts to add as emergency contacts. The phone will display all contacts present in your phone book. You just need to tap on desired contact and it’ll be added to emergency contacts list.

8. Once selcted desired contacts, tap on Done button and then Save button.

That’s it.

Now again lock your phone, swipe up on lock screen, tap on Emergency call button and you’ll see that selected emergency contacts are showing on the screen.

Now anyone can tap on the contacts icons and your phone will call them without any need of unlocking the phone.

PS: Above instructions work on Samsung smartphones. The instructions may vary for other brand mobile phones but the technique is same.

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