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Cannot Turn Off Emergency SOS shortcut in Samsung: How to Fix

In this guide, we will show you a nifty method to fix the issue of being unable to turn off the Emergency SOS shortcut on your Samsung device. Every phone comes with a shortcut to quickly enable the SOS feature. Tt does make sense because, in an emergency, you aren’t going to unlock the device and dig deep through the settings menu to enable the SOS.

However, some users have voiced their concern that they tend to unintentionally enable SOS more often than not. As a result of which, their nearby contacts are falsely notified that he or she is in an emergency and then the entire matter escalates to a frightening scale in a matter of seconds. So to avoid this entire fiasco from happening, many users prefer to turn off this Emergency SOS shortcut.

Turn Off Emergency SOS shortcut in Samsung

However, if you own a Samsung device, then might prove to be easier said than done as many users have voiced their concern that they are unable to disable the Emergency SOS shortcut on their Samsung device. If yo are also in the same boat, then this guide will help you out. Follow along for the fix.

Fix Cannot Turn Off Emergency SOS shortcut in Samsung

Turn Off Emergency SOS shortcut in Samsung

The generic method of getting this job done involves accessing the Safety & Emergency page from the Settings menu and then turn off the toggle next to Emergency SOS. But as discussed above, while the option is present there, the toggle to disable it is missing for some. So why is this happening? Well, the major reason for the same is that you might have changed the device Country Specific Code to any other region.

Turn Off Emergency SOS shortcut in Samsung
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So you’ll have to switch back to your original CSC and this will bring back the option to turn off the Emergency SOS shortcut on your Samsung device. However, doing so will also mean that you will end up losing all the goodies that you earned after changing the CSC [such as Call Recording]. So decide accordingly on this trade-off.

With that said, you could refer to this guide and get the job done: How to Change CSC Codes in Samsung Devices. On that note, we round off this guide. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.


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