Safety notice
What Audit Am Guard does
- SOS sends your location and details to your circle (push and SMS), to verified responders in your state, to organisations you joined, to official responders if you allow it, and an area alert (never your exact location) to people in your state.
- Without data, Guard sends your SOS as an SMS from your phone to your circle. Normal SMS charges from your network may apply.
- Automatic detection (protection mode) listens for your code word, screaming, gunshots and panic gestures, and watches trips. Audio is analysed on your phone and never recorded or sent.
- Before an automatic alert goes out, you get a 15-second countdown to cancel with your PIN.
What it can't do
- No app can track a phone that is switched off or destroyed. The safety trail shows the last place the phone reported before it went off, which is often what police need.
- On iPhone, apps aren't told when the phone is switched off or the SIM is removed, so iPhone relies on the no-signal alarm.
- Crash detection can miss a crash or mistake a hard knock for one. It always gives you time to cancel and never replaces calling 112.
- Caller warnings only know numbers reported by several people; an unflagged number can still be a scammer.
- It can't guarantee anyone will come. Responders and organisations are independent and may be busy, far away or unreachable.
- It can't work if your phone is off, out of battery, has no network at all, or if you've removed its permissions.
- Detection is not perfect. It can miss danger (for example a muffled scream or a distant gunshot) and can be set off by loud music, films or fireworks.
- Location can be inaccurate indoors or in areas with poor GPS.
- On iPhone, Apple doesn't allow apps to listen in the background, detect power-button presses or send SMS silently. So on iPhone, code word, scream and gunshot detection aren't available; use shake, "Hey Siri, Guard SOS", the Action button or Back Tap instead, and with no data Guard opens a ready-to-send SMS that you tap to send.
Make it work for you
- Add at least 2 people to your circle and tell them what an SOS from you means.
- Set a safety PIN that only you know.
- On Android, turn off battery optimisation for Guard (Settings → Apps → Guard → Battery → Unrestricted) so protection keeps running. On iPhone, allow Location "Always" and set up Back Tap (Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap → Triple Tap → Send SOS).
- Record your code word 3 times in a quiet place, the way you'd say it under stress.
- Use Trip watch on long journeys and the Safety timer when meeting someone new.
- Test with your family once: hold SOS, then end it and tell them it was a test.
Responders
Vigilante groups, estate security and others apply to receive SOS alerts. We call each one and check their group before approving, but they are not our employees, and we can't promise how they will act. If a responder behaves badly, tell us at once through Support.
First aid and AI guidance
First-aid steps and De Auditor AI answers are general guidance to help until professional help arrives. They are not a substitute for a doctor, nurse or paramedic.
Incident updates and "Near me"
"Near me" shows only verified reports that people chose to locate, rounded to about 1 km, so it can miss things that are happening near you; an empty list does not mean an area is safe. Incident updates come from our team and responders and can be late or wrong. Always call 112 in an emergency and move away from danger without waiting for the app.