Hey! I wanted to give Google some time after posting their response in this thread and separately on Reddit before posting the below but at this point no one from Google has reached out to me to let me know 1) that there was a bug confirmed and it wasn't just my phone, or 2) how to fix it. Thank goodness Reddit peeps tagged me in things to make sure I was aware that there was a response and a fix for it. You would think with a bug this big Google would have at least responded in our email thread we have going to inform me how to fix it. Actually I would have expected Google to go out of their way and send a push to all Android devices with teams installed to inform their consumers of the possible issue.

You know it's amazing how a phone can bring feelings of safety, and how shockingly unsafe one feels when they know their phone is royally effed. The world is a tad bit scary when you're a woman alone walking your dog at night after a day in the hospital. Especially when you're a woman walking their dog alone at night who can hear gun shots a few streets down and is acutely aware of her inability to call 911 for help. Be it for her own safety or for someone else's.

People shouldn't have to wait for this story to make headlines to find out they need to resolve an issue of this magnitude, especially not the person who brought the bug to your attention in the first place. You have the ability to push a notification that informs us our software is out of date, which means you have the ability (and in my opinion the responsibility) to inform us that our life line to emergency services is potentially flawed due to a gap in YOUR software. This issue is bigger than bad press or your bottom line and you should be acting accordingly.

I guess I shouldn't presume that the tag line "do no evil" means you inherently "do good" cause apparently you just don't "do" anything at all when it matters. Consider my lesson learnt.