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Hold for three seconds. We send for help.

ELA is a legal emergency membership for UAE residents: if you’re arrested, one hold on your iPhone or Apple Watch tells a vetted law firm, your consulate and your family.

Get the app Available on iPhone and Apple Watch.

Phone locked, dead, or taken: it still runs.

ELA on Apple Watch, settled: Protected, Hold to arm

What happens when you hold.

Press and hold the disc.

You don’t type anything, call anyone, or explain. The ring fills for three seconds.

Try it here. Press and hold the disc. Nothing is sent from this page.

ELA home: You're protected, the HOLD TO ARM disc

A 30-second countdown sends help unless you slide “I’m safe”.

If the moment passes, nothing happens. If you can’t slide, ELA sends. “Send help now” sends at once.

ELA countdown screen: Sending help in 0:28, your location and profile go to the response team automatically, a Send help now button and a Slide to cancel, I'm safe control

Everything else is ours now.

A vetted law firm is notified.

Engaged the moment it accepts. If it can’t act, ELA is already finding another.

Your consulate is informed.

Your consulate’s emergency desk gets the case brief.

Your family gets a private live link.

Live location, each milestone, the acting lawyer’s name. Sent only to the people you chose.

A human team tracks the case.

Real people, on chat and voice. Type, or send a voice note.

Example timeline. Timings vary by case.

For the people who love you.

They don’t need the app. The link opens in a browser.

The map the private link opens: a live location pin in Dubai Marina on Google Maps

Your Apple Watch holds too.

The same three seconds, from your wrist, with your phone in a bag or on a desk. The case shows there too.

ELA on Apple Watch, Your case: Case opened, Law firm reaching, Lawyer will call, with Dictate and message controls

ELA Ops, in the case thread.

A human team follows every case, start to finish.

Once help is sent, the response runs on ELA’s servers.

From the hold to your lawyer’s first contact, the case never waits on your phone.

Phone locked, dead, or taken: it still runs.

If you’re arrested in the UAE, you’re not on your own.

The launch film. 45 seconds, with sound.

One membership.

The same response for every member, however you pay. Every membership includes:

  • The three-second hold on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • A vetted law firm notified with your case brief
  • Your consulate’s emergency desk informed
  • A private live link for the people you choose
  • A human team on every case, by chat and voice

After you join, you can add Shield. Shield membership includes legal-fee insurance, underwritten by a regulated UAE insurer.

  • AED 24.99a week
  • AED 79.99a month
  • AED 749.99a year

Billed through the App Store. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.

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Set it up once. Hope you never use it.

Available on iPhone and Apple Watch.

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The ELA app icon: a mint keyhole