How To Configure Emergency Information in Android Nougat
For most people, user profiles in Android is a rarely thought of or configured feature of the platform. To be fair, in Android Lollipop and Android Marshmallow, outside of a work environment configuration, profiles did not have a lot of bang or, frankly, use. That changes for the better in Android Nougat. Like many features in this evolution of Android, the team at Google took something already in the Operating System and improved it. In this case, significantly.
For those who aren’t familiar, User profiles allow you to have different users use the same device. Let say you want to have a profile for the kids and one for yourself that has different apps installed. It is a pretty cool feature but just not something most people need.
In Nougat however there is a good reason to go and fill out the Owner user profile for your phone or tablet. You can now add emergency information to your profile and that information can be accessed through the emergency dialer on the phone should you be incapacitated. In this How To, I’ll show you where to access this information, how to fill out the details and how to access it in an emergency. It could make a big difference for first responders should you be unresponsive.