Although only a small number of users, primarily Pixel 6 and 6a owners, appear to have been affected, this is one bug that’s just not acceptable and is the last thing you would expect your phone to fail at.
Just found an unresponsive man passed out next to his vehicle.When I tried to dial 000 the phone displayed my location and did nothing else, there was no ringtone and it never connected to emergency services (see screenshot). I had to run 2 minutes down the road to find help from someone with a functioning phone.The time I spent looking for someone instead of performing CPR may of contributed to this mans passing.
I had to call an ambulance for the grandmother on Friday as she appeared to be having a stroke. I got off a phone call with my mom, and proceeded to dial 911 just by typing and calling on my pixel. My phone got stuck immediately after one ring and I was unable to do anything other than click through apps with an emergency phone call running in the background.
Luckily my grandmother is of the generation that still has a land line, otherwise I would have had to restart my phone, wait for a reboot, and then attempt to call emergency services so they could get people over asap. I’ll let you know from experience that the last thing you want to go wrong during an actual emergency is your phone to mess up. Especially when time is of the essence, and the faster you get emergency services to your door, the more likely it is that you will survive.