Freshers Week and the 1% Phone

You know the feeling. It is 1am, you are three streets from a flat you moved into four days ago, and your battery is sitting at 1%. Everyone around you is new. Their numbers live in a phone that is about to go flat, and you could not tell anyone your address if you tried.

That is freshers week for a lot of students. Not dramatic, just disorienting. A new city, new people, and a phone doing all the remembering for you.

Good freshers safety is not about expecting the worst. It is about making that 1% moment a non-event.

Freshers safety starts before you leave

• Charge up while you are getting ready.
• Tell one person your rough plan for the night, and message them if it changes.
• Agree a meeting point with your group in case you get split up.
• Know how you are getting home before you leave.

None of this is new. The problem is the one thing all of it depends on: your own phone, working, in your hand. Lose it, break it, or let it go flat, and the plan goes with it.

A backup that does not need your phone

This is the gap My Home Call is built to close. It is a UK biometric safety platform, and the idea is simple: you can reach your saved contacts from any phone using a quick facial scan. No need for your own device, no numbers to remember, no battery required. A friend’s phone, a flatmate’s, a stranger’s in the kebab queue: any of them will do.

When you reach out, your chosen contact also receives your location as three simple words, powered by what3words. You start it, they receive it. It is a message you send, not a tracker running in the background.

Two minutes now saves you later

Set it up before freshers properly kicks off. Download the free version of the app, add a couple of trusted contacts (a flatmate, a mate from your course, someone at home), and you are covered. You can see how it works in a few steps.

Then go and enjoy it. That is the whole point.

For more freshers safety once term gets going, read our student guide to night out safety, part of our Always a Way Home campaign. If drinking is part of your freshers, Drinkaware has sensible, no-lecture advice too.

About My Home Call

My Home Call is a UK built biometric safety platform. Any registered My Home Call account holder on a free or paid plan can reach their saved contacts from any borrowed device, without needing their own phone, without remembering numbers, and without exposing personal contact details.

Because it works from any device, anywhere, My Home Call is there whenever your own phone is not: flat, lost, forgotten or stolen, on a night out, on the way home, or anywhere in between.

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