Huawei: Add Emergency Contacts for SOS

Turning on Emergency SOS for the first time on a Huawei phone stores exactly one emergency contact. That single contact is picked automatically and does not reflect who should really be alerted in a crisis, such as a family member close by or a neighbor.

EMUI lets you manage this list manually and add up to two more people, for a maximum of three emergency contacts. Each of them can receive your location and an alert if Emergency SOS gets triggered.

To add more contacts, open Settings ➔ Security ➔ Emergency SOS ➔ Emergency contacts. From there, add any additional contact from your phone book, up to the limit of three.

If no extra contacts get added, only the original default contact stays informed during an SOS event. This matters most for shared or newly set up phones, where the automatically chosen contact may no longer be correct.