{"id":378613,"date":"2021-12-09T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/android-users-cant-dial-911-because-of-microsoft-teams\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:38:05","slug":"android-users-cant-dial-911-because-of-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/android-users-cant-dial-911-because-of-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"#Android users can\u2019t dial 911 because of\u2026 Microsoft Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Android users can\u2019t dial 911 because of\u2026 Microsoft Teams?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna sit here and decry current technology<\/a>, quite the opposite. To this very day, there\u2019s something magical about smartphones. I can use them to watch movies<\/a>, make music, work\u2026 anything, really.<\/p>\n

Despite this, I \u2014 a caveman \u2014 still expect my pocket rectangle to do one basic thing: be a phone.<\/p>\n

And this means doing things like calling 911. Normally, this isn\u2019t an issue, but it could be now. If you\u2019re on Android. And have Microsoft Teams installed. And aren\u2019t logged into the app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, friends, last week a Reddit user shared an issue<\/a> with contacting the American emergency services. Specifically, they used a Pixel 3 running Android 11 on Verizon.<\/p>\n

Without going into too much detail (you can read the full saga here<\/a>), the user dialled 911 following a call with their mother. After one ring, their phone stuck and they were unable to \u201cdo anything other than click through apps with an emergency phone call running in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Google has confirmed the existence of the bug and responded to this issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In its statement (posted on Reddit, of course<\/a>), the company pointed to the two aforementioned reasons for this issue:<\/p>\n