Emergency shortcuts on your phone

What every shortcut does

• •It only opens the app. Nothing starts from a widget, a control or an icon. You unlock the app first — Face ID, Touch ID, your fingerprint or your passcode — and then choose a workflow.
• •Starting takes a deliberate hold. In the app, press and hold Hold to start until it completes. Letting go early cancels it, so a pocket tap cannot start anything.
• •It lists only what you can start yourself: a hospitalization and any custom workflow that is ready. A death, or a time when you cannot speak for yourself, is never started by you — someone you trust reports it through your Emergency Portal.
• •While an emergency is running, every shortcut opens that emergency instead.
• •On the Free plan the shortcuts still appear, and the app tells you a paid plan is needed to start an emergency workflow. Your workflows stay saved.

The emergency button inside the app

On both iPhone and Android, a round emergency button floats over every screen once you are signed in. Tap it to choose and start a workflow. Drag it anywhere on the screen; it stays where you leave it. It turns red while an emergency is running, and tapping it then opens the running emergency.

On iPhone: add the Home Screen widget

Needs iOS 17 or later.

1. 1.Touch and hold an empty part of your Home Screen until the apps jiggle.
2. 2.Tap Edit in the top corner, then Add Widget. On iOS 17, tap + instead.
3. 3.Search for amoviti and tap it.
4. 4.Swipe to choose a size. The medium and large widgets list your ready workflows by name, so you can tap the one you need; the small widget shows no names.
5. 5.Tap Add Widget, then Done.

Workflow names are hidden while your iPhone is locked, and cleared from the widget when you sign out.

On iPhone: add a Lock Screen widget

Needs iOS 17 or later. Lock Screen widgets never show your workflows' names.

1. 1.With your iPhone unlocked, touch and hold the Lock Screen until Customize appears.
2. 2.Tap Customize, then choose the Lock Screen.
3. 3.Tap the widget area under the time — or the line above the time — and choose amoviti.
4. 4.Pick the round or rectangular widget, or the one-line version above the time.
5. 5.Tap Done.

On iPhone: add the Control Center control

Needs iOS 18 or later.

1. 1.Swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen to open Control Center.
2. 2.Tap + in the top corner, or touch and hold an empty space.
3. 3.Tap Add a Control, search for amoviti and choose Emergency workflows.
4. 4.Tap an empty area to finish.

On iPhone: put the control on your Lock Screen

Needs iOS 18 or later. The two buttons at the bottom of the Lock Screen — the flashlight and the camera — can be swapped for the amoviti control.

1. 1.With your iPhone unlocked, touch and hold the Lock Screen and tap Customize, then the Lock Screen.
2. 2.Tap − on the button you want to replace.
3. 3.Tap + in its place, search for amoviti and choose Emergency workflows.
4. 4.Tap Done.

On iPhone: use the Action button

On an iPhone with an Action button, running iOS 18 or later.

1. 1.Open Settings, then Action Button.
2. 2.Swipe to Controls and tap Choose a Control.
3. 3.Search for amoviti and choose Emergency workflows.

A press of the Action button then opens your emergency workflows.

On iPhone: use the app icon

1. 1.Touch and hold the amoviti app icon.
2. 2.Tap Start emergency workflow. While an emergency is running, it reads View active emergency.

On iPhone: Siri and the Shortcuts app

amoviti does not add itself to Siri or to the Shortcuts app, on purpose: an emergency is started by you, in the app, after you unlock it — never by voice or by an automation that could run without you.

On Android: use the app icon

1. 1.Touch and hold the amoviti app icon.
2. 2.Tap Start emergency workflow. While an emergency is running, it reads View active emergency.
3. 3.To keep it one tap away, drag that shortcut out of the menu and drop it on your Home Screen. Most Android phones allow this; the exact gesture depends on your phone's maker.

On Android: what is not available yet

Home Screen widgets and Quick Settings tiles are not available on Android yet. Use the emergency button inside the app, or the app-icon shortcut above.