With confidence step: these apps store the alarm in an emergency

Multimedia Who while cycling or jogging along desolate places, and not entirely at ease, may appeal to a number of digital ‘tools’. Here are a few handy apps that let you in an emergency quickly sound an alarm.

For clarity: no one would itself have to be responsible for his or her own safety. It is unfair to expect that your behavior adjusts to protect you against any attackers. Just as it is unfair to blame the victims, and to impose, when no additional measures found. the

But purely for your own safety, it can help to have a stick behind the door. This digital fun tools offer no guarantees, but they can make sure that you feel confident out and about can attract.

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There are different applications that you location or route to share with friends and family. They can track where you are and whether you safely arrive at destination. Such a function is, for example, built into WhatsApp. the

Before you go to a conversation with the person that you want to share. Tap the paperclip icon, choose ‘Location’ and then ‘Live location sharing’. Then you can choose how long your location data to share, from 15 minutes to 8 hours. Confirm with ‘Send’. You need the app open to keep the location sharing: your partner may live to see where your phone is as long as the gps function is turned on. the

Such a function is also built into many other applications, including navigation-app Waze or sportapp Strava.