The number of emergency calls mistakenly dialed by Android phones has soared, and multinational security departments have called on users to turn off this feature.

CTOnews.com, June 24 (Xinhua)-- the number of Android users calling emergency calls due to mistouch has been rising recently, wasting a lot of police resources, the Royal Police said, according to BBC News.

▲ Picture Source: Samsung reported that the number of silent calls made by mobile phones has recently reached an all-time high across the UK. Police say it takes an average of 20 minutes for each silent call to be processed. Police speculate that the main reason for the surge in misdialing is that more and more Android phones have added emergency calls. Cornwall County police received 169 silent calls between 00:00 and 19:00 on Sunday alone, the report said.

▲ source: Southampton Police CTOnews.com notes that the British police are not alone in this situation. Previously, the Canadian emergency department and the European Emergency number Association have advised local users to turn off the emergency call function. There has been an explosion in the number of silent alarm calls after Google launched an update to Android 13. British police are calling on the public to turn off this function.

A Google spokesman responded that it would provide additional help to mobile phone manufacturers to prevent misdialing emergency calls, and the manufacturers would soon push updates to users to solve the problem.