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Apple Watch Fall Detection Features Save Two Lives
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Hahaha! Not sure. Waiting for the smell detection, so they know if alcohol was involved or not. 😜
So the watch would have done nothing extra to help you. Your nose was broken by the fall and you were found by the neighbour. Same end result.
This really sad story should be acknowledged as well. This Chicago Police Officer's apple watch called for help after she succumbed to her wound's.
Good question. Unaware if it takes any info from health app when sending info to alerted personnel.
If that’s what you meant.
It can happen on your arm too, if you run in rain with a long sleeved running jacket or just if you sweat too much in your long sleeves running gear.
I always lock my watch (water lock) if i know that it is a risk at my run.
I thought you were joking that you got knocked out a lot at first.
is it just me, or is the apple watch still pretty good? like i think it is one of the only products i can say im perfectly happy with still.
I wonder if Jason Derulo has fall detection enabled?
I get what you're saying but if the neighbor wasn't there, who knows how long they would've been on the ground. To me, Fall Detection just adds an extra layer of protection.
I was in a car accident where the driver’s side of the car was hit. Other than a bruised arm, I was OK. Fall Detection was activated on my Watch and I switched it off as I didn’t need it, but glad that this feature is available and worked
I can vouch for this feature as well. Last year me and my sister bought a Series 7 for our mother, who unfortunately wasn’t doing well and would sometimes briefly lose consciousness and fall. The Watch detected pretty much every single fall, but fortunately there was always someone around to provide assistance, so calling the emergency services was not needed.
Thank you Apple.
Thank you Apple.
No, I was walking home. I used to walk a lot, would do between seven and ten miles a day. I'd been out to see a friend, I was walking home and the next thing I knew, I was heading towards a very nasty face-plant. Having been back to where it happened, there's a pothole and I think I must have tripped on that.
When they were deciding whether I needed surgery or not, I was x-rayed and then had an MRI. The consultant stopped counting at eight breaks and described it as a complete mush.
I was lying by the side of the road for about twenty minutes before some kind passers by stopped to help me. It was actually an off-duty police officer who was passing and saw me there and stopped. They called it in and a few minutes later a real police car tuned up and they took me home.
If I'd not cancelled the fall alert, the emergency services would have been called, an ambulance would have turned up and taken me straight to hospital rather than being delivered home. My wife opened the door to find me supported by a couple of plods with a broken shoulder, blood all over my face and a badly lacerated tongue. It was quite a shock.
I don't walk much now. It's totally destroyed my confidence.
Thanks. My shoulder has been screwed back together but I have limited movement and very little strength in either arm because my rotator cuffs are both torn to the extent that they'll never heal naturally without surgery.
It could have been a lot worse though.
He should get the reckless driver to work with the org he used to volunteer for: Minnesotans for Safe Driving. Can't believe charges weren't immediately filed given the super dangerous and careless driving of the 17 y.o.
Meanwhile 5,000 die from looking at their iPhones while driving
Please explain to me how people can turn this into something negative
There's no way to know if a single incident would result in death, until it does. Did you want them to do randomized controlled trials of leaving old men on trails with blood clots, some with an Apple Watch and some without?
Probably a question that's been asked an answered, but why do you people who hate Apple and Apple products hang out on a MacRumors page? These aren't even informed opinions, they are just vitriol.
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Is that 5000 just iPhones or all phones? Discussing a feature that is saving lives and mentioning a stupid thing that some people do is a non-sequitur.
I assume you might have been in shock? But you couldn’t use your watch or even Siri to dial emergency?It detected when I fell once. I managed to cancel it because I thought I was OK.
I wasn't OK, I was absolutely knackered. I couldn't get up. I'd smashed my shoulder and ended up laying at the side of the road waiting for someone to stop and help.
If you don't have fall detection enabled, please do so. It's really important.
This is how my shoulder is now (x-ray in spoiler tags).
If you ever fall and it goes off, properly evaluate yourself before cancelling it.