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Bixby was not llm based, originally, and sometimes updates will rewrite a user's custom settings. For instance, I had a galaxy on which I made pushing the power button three times turn on the flashlight. An update occurred that overrode that setting by deleting it and turned on five presses to call 911. I ended up accidently calling 911 at 3am (accompanied by a blasting alarm sound) trying not to wake someone by turning on the light.
I'm not really sure how that really makes any difference though. I'm not defending their decision I'm just saying that it's been around for a while now.
I've just pressed my power button five times and it does call, what I'm assuming is, emergency number. It's the wrong one for my country (genius Samsung) so God knows what that would actually do, but it doesn't auto call I have to actually press the call button. Maybe they received some user feedback?
Seems a bit pointless given the fact that I have to press the button five times to call the emergency services but their phone number is only three digits long.
That's goofy as hell that the emergency number isn't localized. I think the idea that pressing a physical button 5 times quickly is faster than having to look at the phone and select options. Idk, though, I don't use it.