Whether you\u2019re a freshman just starting college or a senior getting ready to graduate, college campuses are not always safe \u2014 especially for women \u2014 to walk around at night. While there are often safety features on campus, your phone will always be closer and more accessible during a dangerous situation. To make yourself safer as you walk around campus after dark, consider downloading one of these three safety apps.<\/p>\n
VithU<\/strong><\/p>\n If you need to dial an emergency number in a life-threatening situation, you don\u2019t always have time to open your phone’s dialing and push three digits. VithU makes emergency dialing even faster by letting you press your power button twice to send out a SOS message to your contacts. Your contacts immediately receive a message with your location and every two minutes afterward.<\/p>\n Watch Over Me<\/strong><\/p>\n Watch Over Me lets you set alerts if you\u2019re worried about potential danger. The app\u2019s home screen has you fill in two statements. First, you fill out the statement \u201cWatch Over Me While I\u2026\u201d do something like walk home, go on a date, or have a drink at a bar. Second, you fill out the statement \u201cFor\u2026\u201d and you enter how long you plan to be doing each one of these things. If you don\u2019t confirm that you\u2019ve arrived safely by the time the app\u2019s counter gets to zero, the app will alert your pre-selected contacts of your current location.<\/p>\n Sentinel Personal Security SOS App<\/strong><\/p>\n This app has many of the same features as the other apps, but is more useful if you\u2019re traveling somewhere where you won\u2019t have Internet service. The Sentinel app still works to send out texts to your emergency contacts, regardless of if your phone is connected to the Internet. The app alerts your emergency contacts with your GPS location, the time you sent the message, and the direction you\u2019re traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It can be nerve wracking when you have to walk alone at night in college. Increase your peace of mind by downloading one of these three safety apps for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[210,360,2236,249],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tutoriais","tag-apps","tag-safe","tag-safe-walk","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18475,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/18475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}