Safety Check

Tell Barota you're OK at a set interval. If you stop, the people you chose are told.

Safety Check is for times you'd like someone to know if you've stopped answering: walking home, a first meeting, a long drive. You choose how often to check in. If you miss a check-in and then the reminders, the people you chose are told.

Barota tells your contacts. It doesn't contact emergency services for you, in any country.

Before you start: two contacts

Safety Check needs at least two emergency contacts who can be reached, so one missed notification is never the only one. You can have up to five.

• Add them in Safety Check (from the Safety Centre), by their @username or phone number, and give each a name you'll recognise.
• They need a Barota account. Contacts are told in the Barota app, not by text or email, so choose people who use Barota and have notifications on.
• Adding someone doesn't send them anything.
• If a contact leaves Barota or their account is suspended, they stay on your list marked as unable to be alerted, and Barota tells you. Add someone else so you're back to two.

Starting a check-in

• What are you doing? Optional. Your contacts see it only if they're alerted.
• Where will you be? Optional. It's sent to your contacts only if they're alerted, and deleted when the check-in ends. Barota doesn't track your location during a check-in.
• Check in every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or 4 hours.

You can have one check-in running at a time.

When a check-in is due

Tap I'm OK and the next one starts counting down.

If you miss one, you get a reminder. If you miss that too, you get a second reminder. If that one passes, your contacts are told, usually within 45 minutes of the check-in you missed. Nobody is told before then.

What your contacts are told

Your name, what you were doing if you said, when you last checked in, and where you said you'd be (or that no location was shared). They see the times in their own time zone.

While the alert is open, a contact can also see the emergency number for where you said you'd be, and call it from their own phone. If they do, you'll see that they did.

Ending it

• I'm OK after your contacts have been told: they're told you confirmed you're OK, and when.
• End: stops the check-in and deletes the location you gave, including from any alert already sent. If your contacts had already been told, they're told you ended it without tapping I'm OK.

Related

• SOS: when you need to call emergency services now.
• Safety Centre