Does Emergency SOS Turn On Mic?

AtriumCompound

When emergency SOS is activated in grapheneos, does it automatically turn on the mic if the mic is disabled?

Welteam

I don't know and I didn't find anything on the Goggle Support page about the subject but you can easily check with a test.

Text a friend to ask him to help with the test.
Put his number as the emergency contact in the emergency sos options
Activate the emergency sos while your phone is unlocked
Check the mic toggle and try talking to him
Terminate the call and ask him if he heard anything

BHydden

Welteam I can't remember where I heard it, but I believe the phone acts differently depending on whether you have a nornal number in that field or an emergency services number.

Welteam

BHydden The only difference I know of is that emergency SOS doesn't work if the phone is locked and you have a custom number. This is expected since this works like any other phone call and you can't phone any non emergency number from the lock screen

AtriumCompound

Welteam Makes sense. Reading through the privacy settings I also found this bit:

Microphone access: For apps and services. if this setting is off, microphone data may still be shared when you call an emergency number.

The wording is a little strange, but it seems to confirm that the microphone will be turned on for emergency SOS.