Google told the BBC it’s up to manufacturers to decide how and when the emergency SOS feature works, even though Google is the one that developed it.
Corporate bullshit 101
No surprise from a company that announce to their employee they are fired by disabling their pass.
Bought a xcover 4s for this reason, 3 years later it ended up dying for absolutely no reason. Battery is fine tho, even bought another to make sure that wasn’t it.
When you can’t test voltage because you have no idea what it’s supposed to be, it makes any réparation absolutely impossible (other than something visually broken)
For those on iOS or macOS there is « hide my email » which is very well integrated. Otherwise simple login has great extension and can be self hosted.