How to Use Safety Check on iPhone in iOS 16

Want to know how to use the safety check on an iPhone? Then, read this guide until the end. If you have installed the all-new iOS 16 on your iPhone, it has a new safety check feature.

It allows you to restrict access to apps and services for others you have shared. During any emergency, you can use the safety check feature on your iPhone to reset the device entirely.

If you think that somehow, due to shared access, your account on any app can get compromised, the safety check will come to your rescue. It will sign you out of iCloud from all the Apple devices.

Secondly, if you think your location data is shared with others and is putting you in danger, then the safety check feature will stop sharing your location. Others with access to your data or account will not know you have revoked their access.

However, they will eventually realize they have been banned from accessing your data when they won’t be able to access the shared data anymore.

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1. How to Enable Safety Check on iPhone?

You need to update your iPhone to iOS 16. In the Settings app, navigate to General, tap on it, and then tap on Software Update. If the latest build of iOS 16 is available, you can download and install it.

Previous iOS builds like iOS 15 don’t offer the Safety check feature. Once your iPhone is ready with iOS, you may follow the steps below to activate the safety check.

1. Go to the Settings
2. Scroll to Privacy & Security and tap on it.
3. Then, under that, tap on Safety Check.
   
4. On the next page, tap on Manage Sharing an Access.
5. You have to authenticate yourself, which you can do using Touch ID or Face ID, depending on the iPhone model that you are using.
6. After authenticating, you will be redirected to the next screen where you have to tap on Continue to proceed.
   
7. Next, you will encounter the first step where you must review what you share with others. Tap on Continue to go to the next step.
   
8. In the second step, you must review which apps have access to your personal data.
9. In the 2^nd step, a list of apps will be available on your iPhone. Select those apps that you no longer want to access your information.
10. You may tap on Select All & Stop Access. Otherwise, scroll through the list of apps and individually select a few apps for which you wish to restrict access to your data.
    
11. If you do not wish to limit any app’s access tap on Skip.
    
12. Now, tap on Continue to proceed to the third step.
    
13. In the 3^rd step, you will see the option to disconnect the devices that are signed in with Apple ID.
14. Select the device you want to delink and tap on Remove Selected Devices.
    
15. If you do not want to disconnect any device, then simply tap on Skip.
    
16. Next, you must add a phone number you trust besides the one you primarily use on the iPhone.

1.1 Adding Trusted Phone Number and Updating Apple ID Password

1. Tap on Add a trusted phone number and enter the iPhone passcode.
   
2. Type in the phone number.
3. Once you add the trusted phone number, tap on Continue.
   
4. Finally, you will need to update or change your Apple ID password. To do so, tap on Update Password.
5. You can also change your password in Settings. To do that, tap on Update Later.
   
6. Next, you can update your Emergency Contacts by removing the existing ones or adding new ones.
   
7. Finally, you will see an option to update the iPhone passcode. Follow the on-screen instructions to do so.

This is about how to set up or manage the various elements of the iPhone’s safety check feature.

2. Steps to Enable Emergency Reset on iPhone

Doing this will restrict shared access to your data and you will have to update your Apple ID password. Here are the steps to activate it.

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Navigate to Privacy & Security and tap on it.
3. Then tap on Safety Check.
   
4. On the next page, tap on Emergency Reset.
5. Authenticate using Touch ID or Face ID.
6. Then tap on Start Emergency Reset.
   

Wrapping Up

Privacy is paramount today. Most of our activities are shared online with various people. Now that you know how to use the iPhone’s safety check feature, your data will be safe.