Personal Safety’s Crisis Alerts could be planning a big expansion (APK teardown)
Or maybe not, and Google's just doing some internal reorganizing.
JoriPress
- Google Play Services now shows early signs of support for Personal Safety Crisis Alerts.
- It’s possible that Google could use this shift to bring Crisis Alerts to more phones than before.
Google’s Personal Safety app sure carries a lot of weight, responsible not just for detecting car crashes, but also managing our emergency contact info, giving us some piece of mind with safety checks, or even triggering an emergency SOS. But now we’re wondering if Google might be planning to split some of that functionality up, and in doing so make it available to a much larger group of Android users.
The Personal Safety app may feel like a Pixel exclusive a lot of the time, but as we were reminded just last month, a few other manufactures have also given their phones access. That’s still just a fraction of the Android user base, and for features that are so potentially life-saving it might make sense to try and make them available to as many users as possible. What better way to do that than through Google Play Services?
