Useful information to keep on your mobile

In my contacts list
In Case Emergency Husband
ICE Daughter

Ambulance service and Police find these numbers very useful

Same as Chocolate

Yes ICE numbers for me too (surprised that there are so many who don't use this).
Various coded numbers and postcodes.
Memo has more or less replaced diary appointment dates as an on screen reminder pops up first thing in the morning.

ICE - one of my adult offspring.

NanKate - you've had a good idea but you may find your sat nav automatically stores them as well. I am not totally sure about this as sat navs vary perhaps.

ICE1 DH
ICE 2 DD1
ICE 3 DD2

I don’t put my home address in my Phone or Satnav in case it gets stolen/lost.

Although these days if people Google your name and you’ve been on any public bodies they can find your address very easily, so I guess you shouldn’t leave your name on anything either!
Technology, don’t you love it..

ICE.
The title, author, and my rating for books I’ve read, to recommend them to others and avoid starting them again.
Details of the menu when we have friends round and when we go to them, so that I don’t serve the same things up a couple of months later.
Instructions as to how to work the TV/radio at the DC’s houses when we’re looking after the grandchildren. And yet we still have to give up on the technology half the time!
The various drop off/pick up times for schools and nurseries and teacher names.

Useful information? My Notes section is full of poems, recipes, junior football fixtures, things my grandson has said that have made me laugh..... perhaps I need to ‘get with the programme’! Having said that, I do put postcodes into my phone so that I can transfer them to the satnav, but then I delete them as the sat nav stores them for me. So that it can send us the wrong way on future occasions, as it is wont to do!!!

I’ve got the non-useful sort as well, Greyduster. For example, under the heading Writing - probably something I thought would make a good book - I have Moonraker, 7 weeks, garlic, machete, same clothes, 18.

I think strong drink might have been involved.

I've got the ICE thing sorted.

Alexa will write me a shopping list but I prefer to keep a running list on the kitchen pad.

As for SatNav storing previously used addresses - this is not necessarily a good idea!

Once I helped on a Course just outside Leicester and then had to pick up DGD3 from school on another side of Leicester. I pressed what I believed to be DD's address where I would park my car before walking to school. I thought we were going a rather circuitous route until I realised that the post code I had selected was very similar to DD's but about 6 miles away. I was late! I now have special post codes in the back of my (proper!) handbag diary.

Along with the registration for DH's car which is the most random set of letters I have ever seen and which have been the cause of me ever more frantically punching numbers into pay on exit machines. I think those machines should say 'close enough' and let me go!

Our sat nat stores postcodes too but when there are too many on the list I delete them. It will only let me delete ALL not be selective ? so I clear them all down every so often.

We are changing the car in the Autumn I wonder what our new sat nav will do.

ICE 1&2 in my contacts.

In my notes I have
My own mobile no as I cannot remember it.
OHs hospital no as they always ask when ringing up.
OHs car reg can’t remember that either.
Hair dressers no.
Favourite restaurants no and postcode.

I have the car reg too.
My ICE is not in the memo app. but in the emergency dialler so they can be accessed without the passcode.

Good idea, Pittcity, I’ll do the same. Once I’ve worked out how, of course....

As above.
I also use my camera for information.
Photograph written info especially when away from home and email to myself saves writing things out.
Photograph tickets for theatre,theme parks, hotels etc as back-up in case of loss.

Would completely lost without my phone
It fell out of my bag whilst having picnic on Holy island last month.
I completely panicked, DH sprinted back to where we had been sitting on picnic blanket, and called my mobile.
Thankfully it was in the long grass phew!

I’ve now added my ICE - and other bits of health info such as my blood group and that I’m an organ donor- to my emergency dialler via the Health icon. So this has been a useful thread. Thanks for the heads up, Pittcity. Having ICE in your contacts isn’t going to be much use if nobody else can see it.

Nothing, I haven’t ventured that far.
I tend to use my phone as a phone.
Note to self- must do better.

I dont understand how the ice thing works unless its your screen saver? Do paramedics and a&e staff really spend time hacking phones on the off chance there's an ICE in contacts?

I use my iPhone in the same way as I used my Filofax(still miss it). It has all my passwords (locked in an app), my complete address book, various lists - holidays we have had, to pack, to do, books read. It’s also my photo album.
No need to panic if lost - it’s all backed up to the cloud and my iPad which my Filofax was not.

The size of my ironing board and the model number of the printer for when I need to buy a new ironing board cover and order inks for the printer.

On the screen where you enter your PIN (if you don't have a PIN add one now for security) there should be an Emergency Call button. Press that and there will be a plus sign. This is where you can add your emergency contacts. There is also a section to add your own medical details (a person in a box symbol). This is on a Samsung phone.
These details can be seen by anyone....no hacking involved.
The emergency call button is also a quick way to make calls without having to enter your PIN.

Please have a look at this wiki page as to how to set up ICE numbers on your mobile phone.

www.wikihow.com/Add-ICE-to-Your-Cell-Phone

also here is the website about ICE which was started in 2004 by a Suffolk paramedic

incaseofemergency.org/

I spent a day with an emergency ambulance crew as part of my training to become a Community First Responder. A 12 hour shift actually lasted 13 and a half hours with a 30 minute break for lunch. We did not stop, dealing with one 999 patient after another. Handovers at hospitals were quickly dealt with and I learnt such a lot in one day. We traveled with flashing blue lights everywhere and all drivers got out of the way of the ambulance. I was shattered at the end of the shift and remain full of admiration for the ambulance crews.

A patient's mobile phone was only used with their permission to speak to a relative - no time to try any hacking!

I understood that where possible, a police officer would simply look at Contacts on phone and go to ICE.
Obviously not always possible but no hacking involved.
I find it reassuring and have all 3 ACs under ICE as well as in the alphabetical contact list.

On my phone, ICE is at the top of contacts