The Gauteng e-Panic button app appears to be a rare win in the province’s efforts to make its residents safer.
alongside a physical panic button fob in May 2024, the province described it as an innovative technological solution designed to enhance the safety of Gauteng residents.
The cost of buying and distributing half a million physical buttons would have been astronomical, which is why the Automobile Association of South Africa told MyBroadband the plan would only make sense if the government used a panic button app instead.While it plans to distribute 100,000 physical buttons to the public in the coming months, most of the province’s 16 million+ population can immediately access the panic button through a smartphone.
We then had to agree to the Terms of Service agreement for the app, which did not seem to contain anything untoward. This agreement is available on the app’s settings page at any time for those who want to peruse its fine print in detail. We received an SMS almost immediately confirming our request and that an operator would contact us soon.
Dozens of users who gave the app positive reviews on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store had a similar experience to ours.Throughout one full day of running in the background, it only consumed 1.4% of our smartphone’s battery. One improvement we would like to see is the addition of a widget or shortcut button that allows the user to instantly request medical assistance from their home screen.
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