ICE Contacts Help Save Lives During Terrorist Attacks And Urban Violence

With urban violence and terrorist attacks at an all-time high, families across the US and around the world are looking for new ways to help keep their children and their loved ones safe. 

After attacks in Brussels, Paris and the shootings in San Bernardino, as well as many others in workplaces, on military posts, in schools and theaters, people need quick, easy-to-use solutions to keep the people they love safe and sound.
Every time we watch the news, we can’t help but think that none of the bystanders who were injured, had any idea that they would end up in the hospital that day.  And yet here they are,  fighting for their lives.  
In fact, simply living in a metropolitan area, makes people more at risk for allergies, asthma and other medical conditions that make them even more likely to need specialized care in a medical emergency.
That’s why putting an ICE Contact on your phone, as well as your spouse’s and children’s phones is so critically important.
But as vital as an ICE Contact is, many people simply type in the name of one emergency contact, along with their phone number and stop there.
What they don’t realize is that they are missing out on a real opportunity to let their phone do the talking for them in a medical emergency. Especially when lives could be hanging in the balance.  
This is one instance where spending five minutes with your phone truly can save your life.  Here are a few resources designed to help keep you and your family safer:

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Need More Room In Your Samsung Galaxy ICE Contacts?

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Need More Room In Your ICE Contacts?  

Like most smartphones, your Samsung Galaxy lets you change, add or create fields inside the contact, so that you can customize it as much as you like. 

Here’s how to do it.

To add fields to your contact, press and hold the field name until the menu appears.  This will give you alternate field names to choose from, including the option to Create Your Own Field, so you can add whatever information you need.

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In fact, we suggest that people put all of the information they possibly can into their iCE Contacts.  For example:
  • Your emergency contact’s Main Number/Cell number/Work number, by adding additional phone number fields
  • Their Email Addresses & IM, Twitter and Facebook address (in case landlines are down & you need to send an emergency message through email or a direct message via social media)
  • Other info, for example, days that the contact is at a certain location
But what about information that doesn’t fit into a Galaxy field?  That’s when you turn to your new best friend – the Notes section.   Notes holds quite a bit of information like your Allergies, Current Medications or the Names & Numbers of your Physicians.  So if you run out of room in the regular fields, simply put the rest of the information you need to communicate, in there.  

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While you’re here, be sure to check out our other posts including How To ICE Your Samsung Galaxy and How To ICE Your iPhone to learn everything you need to know about ICEing your phone.  And while you’re feeling proactive, don’t forget to put ICE Contacts on your spouse’s and kid’s phones too, along with each other’s contact information.   

Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together!

The ICE My Phone Kit

Did you know your smartphone can save your life? It can also save your spouse’s life, your kid’s lives and the lives of everyone you love! The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency. How? With ICE, your in case of emergency contact. In “The ICE My Phone Kit” you’ll find step by step directions for ICEing, iPhones, Galaxies, regular Androids, Windows and even flip phones. Paperback Or Instant Download

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What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

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Don’t Carry A Wallet? Here are 20 Places To Put Your Emergency Wallet Card

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You know you need one.  You know you want one.

But what in the world are you supposed to do if you want to carry an Emergency Wallet Card but don’t carry a wallet?  Or if you don’t carry one when you’re out jogging, running to the store or doing errands while at the office. 
Or with all the disasters that have been happening lately – like Hurricane Maria, Irma or California’s Thomas and Ranch wildfires – to have it with you just in case.
Glad you asked…    

Here are 20 OTHER places to put your Emergency Wallet Card.

  1. Slip it into the opposite side of  your work ID.  That way you’ll even have it when you’re running across the street from your office to grab a coffee or a juice.
  2. A wristlet, like the Sprigs Wrist Wallets.  It fits securely around your wrist and features a zipper pocket inside big enough to hold a few dollars, a credit card, gym or Starbucks card and, you guessed it, your emergency card.
  3. Your book bag.  Stash it in the inside zipper pocket.  If it has a little window pocket for your ID or your kid’s ID, even better.
  4. Your briefcase
  5. The opposite side of your business card holder
  6. A conspicuous place on your car visor
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    Clipped to the zipper or pocket of your jacket

  8. Your fanny pack — come on, we know you still have one
  9. The zippered pouch in your purse
  10. Your inside coat pocket
  11. Inside your smartphone case
  12. In your iPad/Tablet/PC Case
  13. On the reverse side of your luggage tag
  14. Medic Alert Jewelry  There’s a reason millions of kids had to wear it.  It works!
  15. On your key chain
  16. Take the information on your emergency wallet card and create ICE Contacts on your smartphone.  Whether you have an iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Pixel or just a plain cell phone, you’ll find easy instructions on ICEing any phone right here on the blog.
  17. The pocket of your jogging shorts
  18. A shoe wallet like the Keepa — A wallet like device that fits right onto the laces of your running shoes
  19. On your Smart Watch — if you can put contacts on it then you can put an ICE Contact on too!
  20. Tucked in with your credit cards
  21. BONUS  For your little children, toddlers and infants — on an ICE belt in the car .  An ICE Belt holds little children’s emergency information so that emergency personnel can treat the child with her needs in mind even if the mom is unconscious after a car accident.
There you have it.  21 alternate locations for your emergency wallet card.  No more excuses!  And if you don’t have an emergency wallet card, you can borrow one of ours.
Here’s another tip.  If you want to make sure that your wallet card doesn’t get smeared or so dog-earred that it’s unreadable, laminate it before you put it in one of the places we mentioned above.
And while you’re here, be sure to check out our other posts like How To Put An ICE Contact On Your iPhone, or How To ICE Your Samsung Galaxy to learn everything you need to know about ICEing your phone.  And while you’re feeling proactive, don’t forget to put ICE Contacts on your spouse’s and kid’s phones too, along with each other’s contact information.   

Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together!

The ICE My Phone Kit

Did you know your smartphone can save your life? It can also save your spouse’s life, your kid’s lives and the lives of everyone you love! The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency. How? With ICE, your in case of emergency contact. In “The ICE My Phone Kit” you’ll find step by step directions for ICEing, iPhones, Galaxies, regular Androids, Windows and even flip phones. Paperback Or Instant Download

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What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

How To Set Up Your ICE Contacts

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How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
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How To Keep Your Medical History At Your Fingertips
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How to put an ICE Contact on your Samsung Galaxy Lock Screen

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Did you know that your Samsung Galaxy smartphone can save your life?

And it’s not just Galaxy but any kind of smartphone, like the iPhone, Droid Incredible or even the Windows Phone. The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency.  And the way to do that is with ICE.

But…  And this is a BIG but…

If you usually password protect your phone, emergency personnel might not be able to see your ICE information. 
Believe it or not, in many cities emergency workers aren’t allowed to break into a password protected mobile phone, even in an emergency.   Which means that having an ICE contact on a password protected phone is useless, right?  
Wrong!  As long as you set up your lock screen and your ICE contact correctly, all an emergency worker has to do is glance at your locked screen to find your ICE Contact. 
And with the way the world has been the last few years — from hurricanes to wildfires, tornadoes and oh yeah, COVID — having an ICE contact is the perfect way to keep your family safe and connected no matter WHAT is happening around you.
Here are two different ways to set it up, depending on the model Galaxy you have.
Many Samsung Galaxies have an Emergency Dialer on the Home Screen.  Simply set up your ICE contacts and then press and hold your first ICE contact until the menu appears, then add it to the ICE Emergency Contact Group.  Now it will appear on your Emergency Dialer. 
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If your Galaxy doesn’t have this feature, but you normally password lock your phone, all you have to do is add your ICE information directly to your Lock Screen

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Here’s how to do it!

Go into Settings and touch My Device and then Lock Screen.  Then touch Lock Screen Widgets.  Now on the very bottom of the menu you’ll see Owner Information.  Touch that and a window will appear.  Simply type in “ICE CONTACT” along with your contact’s name, phone number, your allergy or medical information – anything you would need an emergency room to know about you.   Then Check the Box and Choose Okay
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Now your ICE information will appear right on your Lock Screen, no password needed. 
Problem solved!
While you’re here, be sure to check out our other posts like How To Put An ICE Contact On Your iPhone, or How To ICE Your Samsung Galaxy to learn everything you need to know about ICEing your phone.  And while you’re feeling proactive, don’t forget to put ICE Contacts on your spouse’s and kid’s phones too, along with each other’s contact information.   
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As great as the ICE Contact you just created is, we have a high-powered, fully loaded version in our book “The ICE My Phone Kit” along with step by step directions for ICEing iPhones, Galaxies, regular androids and even phones that are, shall we say, not all that smart.

Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together!

The ICE My Phone Kit

Did you know your smartphone can save your life? It can also save your spouse’s life, your kid’s lives and the lives of everyone you love! The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency. How? With ICE, your in case of emergency contact. In “The ICE My Phone Kit” you’ll find step by step directions for ICEing, iPhones, Galaxies, regular Androids, Windows and even flip phones. Paperback Or Instant Download

At Your Fingertips | Make Your Smartphone Even Smarter

What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

How To Set Up Your ICE Contacts

How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your iPhone
How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Android Smartphone
How To Put An ICE Contact & Medical ID On Your Apple Watch
How To Set Up Your Medical ID & ICE Contact On The iPhone
How to put an ICE Contact on your Samsung Galaxy Lock Screen
Can I Put An ICE Contact On A Password Protected iPhone?
How To Find Your Patient’s Medical Information & ICE Contacts On An iPhone.
Cómo Colocar Un En Caso de Contacto de Emergencia En Su Teléfono Celular
Why Are ICE Contacts So Important?
Create An ICE Contact In 2 Minutes
The Two Things You should NEVER put in your ICE Contact
Don’t Carry A Wallet? Here are 20 Places To Put Your Emergency Wallet Card

Keep The People You Love Safe

How To Keep Your Medical History At Your Fingertips
How To Create A Family Evacuation Plan
How To Fill Out Your Child’s Emergency Contact Card
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Where Does The Word ICE Go In Your ICE Contact?

Where to put the word ICE in your ICE Contact

Where Does The Word ICE Go In Your ICE Contact?

No, it’s not a silly question.  It’s a very smart question, because the ANSWER can mean the difference between whether or not a hospital will be able to find and use your ICE Contact.
Why does it matter where you put the word ICE?  
Because of the way different smartphones sort your contacts.  
Some phones sort by first name.  Others sort by last name.  So if you  put the first and last name of your ICE Contact into the fields the usual way, the word ICE will be buried inside the contact. Which means that someone looking for ICE might never find it.
The good news is, you don’t have to figure it all out for yourself.  We’ve done all the work for you!  
Here is where to put the word ICE on three of the most popular phones…

The iPhone

Touch the Contacts Icon on your iPhone to open up your Contacts.  Click on the plus sign + to add a new contact and touch the Name Field.  Don’t put the name of your contact in this field, only the word ICE.  
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Now touch the Company Name Field.  Here is where you put your contact’s name and his or her relationship to you.  For example, John Jones – Husband.  That way a doctor or nurse reading it, will know that this contact is your husband. 
The most important reason we’re setting it up this way is so your ICE Contact can easily be located even if you password lock your phone.  How?  With Siri.  If ICE is the first name in your contact, all a healthcare professional has to do is touch the home button on your locked phone and say “Siri, ICE”.  With most iPhone models, Siri will display any ICE Contacts on your phone, even if the phone is locked.

The Samsung Galaxy

Touch the Contacts Icon on your Galaxy to open up your Contacts.  Click on the plus sign + to add a new contact and touch the First Name Field
Don’t put the name of your contact in this field, only the word ICE.  We’re doing this because your Galaxy sorts contacts by their first name by default and you want your contact to show up as ICE, not as your contact’s actual name.
Next, touch the Last Name Field and enter your contact’s full name, ie. John Jones.  Now when you save the contact, not only will it be alphabetized as ICE, but it will also have your contact’s name right next to it – easy to read and easy to use.  Do the same thing when you set up your second ICE contact.  The only difference is that you’ll name it ICE2.
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The Windows Phone

Ready to set up your first ICE Contact?

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Swipe over to Contacts, Tap New and if prompted, choose which account you want to add this contact to.  Touch Name
Type the word ICE first, followed by your contact’s first and last name.  Why do you want to do this?  The Windows Phone sorts your contacts by first name, by default.  So unless you have changed it to sort by last name, emergency personnel will see the word ICE right away. 

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Do the same thing for your second ICE contact – then call it ICE2.
Here’s a tip:  If your phone  sorts by Last Name, you can change it by going into your People Settings and checking “Sort List By” First Name instead of Last Name.
While you’re here, be sure to check out our other posts like How To Put An ICE Contact On Your iPhone, or How To ICE Your Samsung Galaxy to learn everything you need to know about ICEing your phone.  And while you’re feeling proactive, don’t forget to put ICE Contacts on your spouse’s and kid’s phones too, along with each other’s contact information.   
Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together! We’ll talk later…

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How To Set Up Your Medical ID & ICE Contact On An iPhone

Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together!

The ICE My Phone Kit

Did you know your smartphone can save your life? It can also save your spouse’s life, your kid’s lives and the lives of everyone you love! The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency. How? With ICE, your in case of emergency contact. In “The ICE My Phone Kit” you’ll find step by step directions for ICEing, iPhones, Galaxies, regular Androids, Windows and even flip phones. Paperback Or Instant Download

At Your Fingertips | Make Your Smartphone Even Smarter

What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

How To Set Up Your ICE Contacts

How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your iPhone
How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Android Smartphone
How To Put An ICE Contact & Medical ID On Your Apple Watch
How To Set Up Your Medical ID & ICE Contact On The iPhone
How to put an ICE Contact on your Samsung Galaxy Lock Screen
Can I Put An ICE Contact On A Password Protected iPhone?
How To Find Your Patient’s Medical Information & ICE Contacts On An iPhone.
Cómo Colocar Un En Caso de Contacto de Emergencia En Su Teléfono Celular
Why Are ICE Contacts So Important?
Create An ICE Contact In 2 Minutes
The Two Things You should NEVER put in your ICE Contact
Don’t Carry A Wallet? Here are 20 Places To Put Your Emergency Wallet Card

Keep The People You Love Safe

How To Keep Your Medical History At Your Fingertips
How To Create A Family Evacuation Plan
How To Fill Out Your Child’s Emergency Contact Card
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How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone

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Did you know that your Samsung Galaxy can save your life?

And it’s not just the Galaxy, but any kind of smartphone, like the newest iPhones or Androids. The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency.  And the way to do that is with ICE.

What is ICE?

During Hurricane Katrina, so many people were injured, unconscious and separated from their families that emergency workers came up with the idea of putting an ICE – In Case Of Emergency – Contact in their cell phones.  Now, when a patient who is unconscious or unable to speak comes into the emergency room, hospitals worldwide check their smartphone for an ICE contact, to help them locate their next of kin. Everyone in your family should have an ICE contact in his or her smartphone.  In fact, they should have two or three just in case the first contact is unavailable. 

Before You Begin… 

…you’d better decide who your ICE Contacts will be.  The first one of course will be your spouse, partner, parent, best friend or close relative.  Someone that you want there with you at the hospital or, if need be, making decisions on your behalf.  But what if that person is also injured, or is out of town or forgot to charge their phone?  Why not choose one additional person to be an ICE Contact – someone very close to you, who you know will drop everything to race to your side and handle things until your significant other can be reached.

Let’s set up your first ICE Contact.

Touch the Contacts Icon on your Galaxy to open up your Contacts.   Click on the plus sign + to add a new contact and touch the First Name Field.  Don’t put the name of your contact in this field, only the word ICE.  We’re doing this because your Galaxy sorts contacts by their first name by default and you want your contact to show up as ICE, not as your contact’s actual name. Next, touch the Last Name Field and enter your contact’s full name, ie. John Jones.  Now when you save the contact, not only will it be alphabetized as ICE, but it will also have your contact’s name right next to it – easy to read and easy to use.  Do the same thing when you set up your second ICE contact.  The only difference is that you’ll name it ICE2.
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Time To Make Your Galaxy Do Some Heavy Lifting…

The best thing about a smartphone is that you can put everything that you need to communicate, right inside this one contact.   Here’s the basic information you need to include: Put all the information you possibly can into your two ICE Contacts.  For example:
  • Your emergency contact’s Main Number/Cell number/ Work number, Relationship to you
  • Email Address & IM, Twitter and Facebook address (in case landlines are down  & you need to send an emergency message )
  • Other info, for example, days that the contact is at a certain location
  • Add extra fields if you need them.
  • Use the Notes Section to list your Allergies, Current Medications or the Names & Numbers of your Physicians.
  • Be sure to include every piece of information you can.   Why?  Because you never know what type of communication will or won’t be working.  For instance, after the Japan earthquake, many people were able to reach each other via Twitter or Facebook even though their landline phones and Wi-Fi weren’t working.
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Adding And Using Fields

Like most smartphones, your Samsung Galaxy lets you change, add or create fields inside the contact, so that you can customize it as much as you like.  To add fields to your contact, press and hold the field name until the menu appears, then check the boxes next to the field/label you want and clicking OK. One great field to add is Relationship, to tell emergency personnel who your contact is to you. But what about information that doesn’t fit into a field on your phone?  That’s when you turn to your new best friend – the Notes section.   Notes holds quite a bit of information, so simply put the miscellaneous information you need to communicate, in there.
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What Other Types of Information Should I Put In My ICE Contact? 

A list of Allergies, the Medications you’re currently taking, Names and Phone Numbers of your Healthcare Providers and contact information for your Insurance Company.  Just make sure you don’t put any member numbers, social security numbers or financial information in your phone.    Or, let’s say that two or three lines of Current Medications and Allergies isn’t enough.  Then why not create a medical history form for yourself and every member of the family, put it in a password protected online folder, and place the link to it in the Notes section of your ICE Contact.  This way a doctor can access your, your spouse’s or your kid’s basic medical history, while you’re en route to the hospital. 
If you don’t have your own Medical History Form, go ahead and download ours.  Just right click on the link and save it to your desktop.  And while you’re at it, you can put medical treatment release forms for your children in the folder as well, and place the links to those forms in their ICE contacts.  You can also put in links to a full list of contacts or emergency numbers, or links to your family’s evacuation plan and gathering locations, so that every member of your family always has all the information they need, right at their fingertips.

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What About The Rest of The Family?

Every family has one person who keeps everyone else organized.  And since you’re reading this post, something tells me it’s probably you!  If that’s the case, it’s up to you to ensure every member of your household not only has ICE Contacts set up on his or her phone, but that everyone’s phone contains all of the contact information for every other family member.  That way you’ll be able to get in touch with each other as quickly as possible in an emergency.  And don’t forget that you can always put an ICE Contact in your kid’s iPods and gaming devices as well.  Just because you don’t have a phone with you while you’re running doesn’t mean you can’t stay safe!

What If Your Phone Is Password Locked?

I know what you’re thinking.   ICE contacts are great – as long as emergency personnel can actually SEE my ICE information.  But what if you lock your Galaxy with a password?  Believe it or not, in many cities emergency workers aren’t allowed to break into a password protected mobile phone, even in an emergency.   Which means that having an ICE contact on a password protected phone is useless, right?   Wrong! As long as you set up your lock screen and your ICE contact correctly, all an emergency worker has to do is glance at your locked screen to find your ICE Contact.  Here are two different ways to set it up, depending on the model Galaxy you have. Most Samsung Galaxies have an Emergency Dialer on the Home Screen.  Simply set up your ICE contacts and then press and hold your first ICE contact until the menu appears, then add it to the ICE Emergency Contact Group.  Now it will appear on your Emergency Dialer. 
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If your Galaxy doesn’t have this feature, but you normally password lock your phone, all you have to do is add your ICE information directly to your Lock Screen
Here’s how you do it: Go into Settings and touch My Device and then Lock Screen.  Then touch Lock Screen Widgets.  Now on the very bottom of the menu you’ll see Owner Information.  Touch that and a window will appear.  Simply type in “ICE CONTACT” along with your contact’s name, phone number, your allergy or medical information – anything you would need an emergency room to know about you.   Then Check the Box and Choose Okay
How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone | You'll find this and other quick and easy life hacks and organization hacks at https://rnn10.wordpress.com Now your ICE information will appear right on your Lock Screen, no password needed.  Problem solved!

Turn Your Phone Into A Mobile Command Center

While you’re at it, you can even turn your phone into a Mobile Command Center.  Just store copies of your family’s medical history forms, emergency action plans, checklists and Evacuation Plan, right on your phone and those of each member of your immediate family.  And while you have them, don’t forget to put ICE Contacts on their phones as well, including along with each other’s contact information.   That way you can all get in touch with each other quickly in an emergency. 
And when your phone is ready to keep you safe, remember to keep it safe with a sturdy (and beautiful!) new case like this one, or this one.
Do yourself a favor.  Take five minutes right now to set up your family’s ICE contacts.  That way your family will have all the information they need to stay safe and secure, no matter what the situation. 

High Tech Toys

Here are the coolest ways we can find to keep everyone you love safe and connected.  Smart phones, smart watches, smart flash drives that beam data where you need it and a car accessory that diagnoses your engine on the go.  You’re welcome.
Anker PowerConf Bluetooth Speakerphone
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IPhone 12 Pro Max
IPhone SE
IPod Blue IPod
Jitterbug Flip Phone
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Tulips In The Breeze Smartphone Case
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The COVID pandemic has created a new list of toys that people can’t do without — including some very cool high-tech solutions to unexpected challenges.  Like staying healthy and working from home!  Here are some of our favorites.
Cubii Pro Seated Under Desk Elliptical Machine
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iProvèn Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor
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PhoneSoap 3 UV Smartphone Sanitizer
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As amazing as our 2 Minute ICE Contact is, we have a high-powered, fully loaded version in our book “The ICE My Phone Kit” along with step by step directions for ICEing iPhones, Galaxies, regular androids and even phones that are, shall we say, not all that smart.

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What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

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How To Set Up An ICE Contact On Your iPhone

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Did you know your smartphone can save your life? It can also save your spouse’s life, your kid’s lives and the lives of everyone you love! The secret is letting your phone do the talking for you in an emergency. How? With ICE, your in case of emergency contact. In “The ICE My Phone Kit” you’ll find step by step directions for ICEing, iPhones, Galaxies, regular Androids, Windows and even flip phones. Paperback Or Instant Download

 

At Your Fingertips | Make Your Smartphone Even Smarter

What if I told you, there was something you have with you right now, that can give you the support, information & ability you need to keep everyone and everything you love safe and sound, PLUS the power to gather your family in seconds no matter where they are. What is it? It’s your smartphone! At Your Fingertips is an easy to read, easy to use guide that turns your smartphone into your very own life preserver. Paperback Or Instant Download

 

How To Set Up Your ICE Contacts

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Can Your Cell Phone Can Save Your Life?


Can Your Cell Phone Save Your Life?

Your cell phone can be a real life saver, but can it save your life?  You bet it can, and here’s how.
Can you imagine your life without that electronic appendage of yours? I’m taking about your cell phone. Hard to imagine isn’t it? If you’re like most people, it’s the main way that you connect with your family, friends and business associates. But few people viewed it as their literal lifeline. On 9/11 all that changed. As workers in and around the World Trade Center Can Your Cell Phone Can Save Your Life? | You'll find this and other quick and easy life hacks and organization hacks at https://rnn10.wordpress.com. began running for their lives, they didn’t necessarily have the time or presence of mind to grab their purses or briefcases. But many of them were smart enough to have made a habit out of always having their cell phone within reach. They grabbed the phone and were able to reach their spouses or their children as they walked down the stairs, before cell phone towers gave out from the overwhelming traffic of users dialing each other all over New York and New Jersey.
How Disaster-Ready is Your Phone?
As the workers ran down endless flights of stairs to safety, many of them learned a very important lesson.
A cell phone is only as good as its battery life and the numbers & information that are stored on it!
Let’s take those lessons one at a time. The first one is easy to prevent. Keep your phone charged. The simplest way to do that is to keep a charger stand where you store your phone every evening, and charge it while you’re watching TV or helping the kids with their homework. What? You don’t keep your phone in the same place every night? That’s another one of those habits you need to get into! What if you had to grab it to make an emergency call in the middle of the night? While you’re at it, purchase an extra phone charger for the office and charge it during the day while you’re reading email or doing routine tasks at work.
Making Your Cell Phone Speak
Lesson two:   You’ve been talking to your cell phone long enough. It’s time you make it speak for YOU – and in a way that can save your family’s lives.
During Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami and other recent disasters, someone came up with the idea of putting an ICE entry, (short for In Case Of Emergency), on your phone, to make your emergency contacts stand out to people reading it in an emergency. The idea quickly spread around the world, and most hospitals now look for ICE entries on the cell phones of unconscious patients.
If a disaster struck right now, where you’re sitting and the only thing you could grab was your cell phone, would you have everything you need to:
  • Reach the people you love
  • Be able to communicate your vital emergency contacts
  • Be able to communicate your basic medical information if you are injured and unable to speak for yourself
  • Survive until you reach home, your loved ones or your pre-planned safe location
That’s a lot of work for one little cell phone, but with some thought and planning, it’s easier than you think to turn your smart phone into your very own emergency command center. In fact we’re going to take this one step further to give you, hospitals and emergency personnel the information necessary to save you or your family member’s life, right in your ICE contacts.

 

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For specific instructions for your type of phone, here are some of the other articles on our blog.  iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, iPod/iPad.
But in general, here are the steps you need to take to ICE your phone.
Sit down with each member of your family and decide who their two main emergency contacts are going to be. Depending on your cell phone model, you should be able to put quite a bit of information right in that one contact. The contact name of course will be ICE, but you can put the contact’s first name and relationship, (for example Cynthia – Mom) in the company name field, so a doctor reading it, would know that this contact is the patient’s mother.
Play around with the other fields until you fill in all the information you possibly can. For example:
  • Your emergency contact’s main phone number
  • Cell number
  • Work number
  • Email Address
  • IM, Twitter and Facebook address if you need to send them emergency messages or quick updates
  • A direct URL link to your emergency contact information and basic medical history (optional)
For a second contact person, type in a second entry and name it ICE2.
Now about that last item – the direct URL Link. Let’s say you (or someone you love), are unconscious and unable to give the trauma team treating you, your basic medical history. Think about this for a moment. This means that you can’t tell them what medicines you’re allergic to or what conditions you might have that could prove fatal, if they don’t treat you, or your spouse or your child, with your personal medical histories in mind.
We always suggest that our customers use our comprehensive Grab it and Go Forms, to capture each family member’s medical and vital information, insurance numbers, emergency contact numbers and other life saving information. If you don’t have those forms you can make a basic version in Word or Excel. Although you don’t want to record anything that could compromise you or your family – like social security numbers or financial information – make sure that you put down everything you would tell a trauma physician about you or your loved one if you were standing in front of them.
Once you have saved the documents (one for each member of the family) on your computer, print out a couple of copies of each. Place one set at home, in a safe but easy to grab location. Place another set in your and your spouse’s file cabinet at work.
Now store one copy of the documents in the file manager of your personal web site, or secure online file system. Put the URL to this document or file into your cell phone. This way if you are injured, the hospital will be able to grab your medical history and extended emergency contacts. If your spouse, child or even a parent is injured and you are in another location, you can easily access that document and email it to the hospital to speed emergency treatment. You might even include a treatment consent form for your children, in case a hospital needs one to begin treating your child, before you arrive.
If your phone has the capability, you can also store those documents as well as a copy of your family’s emergency plan, right in your phone, in case you ever need it while away from home. You can note the names of the documents in the ICE contact for easy retrieval.
You now have the info you and anyone treating you, would need to have to save your life, reunite your family, and not only function, but thrive after an emergency or sudden disaster.
Have Fun Getting Your Stuff Together! We’ll talk later…
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