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Apple Watch's Life-Saving Potential Highlighted in Suspenseful '911' Ad

michaelant said:
It was just a very mild joke, is why. I don't actually want to know who was "responsible", the joke is I was, myself, calling MR staff "individuals" instead of "people". Now see what happens when you explain a joke? ;) His wording just struck me as funny, sounded like a police procedural.
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For future reference, even if your post is a ‘joke’ as you stated, it helps to put a ‘/S’ at the end of your post, that basically is like the official indicator it’s actually a joke of what you posted. Not everybody shares your interpretation of a joke over text on a discussion site, which is why I replied to you in the context that I did.

But I do appreciate the explanation.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple today shared a new ad titled "911" that emphasizes the Apple Watch's life-saving potential during emergencies.

The suspenseful ad revolves around three individuals named Amanda, Jason, and Jim who were each able to get help by dialing 911 using the Apple Watch, with the ad highlighting excerpts from their frantic phone calls with dispatchers. Amanda, for example, said that her car had flipped over and was starting to fill up with water.


Fortunately, the ad concludes that all three individuals were rescued in minutes. "These are just three of many incredible stories where people were able to get help using Apple Watch," wrote Apple in the video's description.

The ad suggests that buying an Apple Watch could help save your life in emergencies where you don't have access to your iPhone by allowing you to dial 911 from your wrist. Apple Watch has an Emergency SOS feature that allows you to quickly get in touch with emergency services by pressing and holding the watch's side button and dragging your finger on the Emergency SOS slider that appears on the screen.

Importantly, if you have an Apple Watch without cellular connectivity, using Emergency SOS requires either having an iPhone nearby or the Apple Watch needs to be connected to a known Wi-Fi network and you must set up Wi-Fi calling. Apple has a support document on using Emergency SOS on the Apple Watch with more details.

Update: Apple shared a similar ad on Twitter highlighting the Apple Watch's fall detection feature.



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That’s if you don’t forget to charge your Apple Watch daily ??‍♂️
Apple had better catch up with the competition in terms of battery life.
 
yossi said:
how many people with a wifi only watch will see this commercial and think they have 911 and then try to use it in an emergency? Maybe they should do what Tesla does - include a cellular chip in every watch and then just charge you the premium cost to activate it
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Maybe because Qualcomm has outrageous charges on their cellular chips that are easier to absorb on $100K cars whether they’re activated or not?
 
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ProVideo said:
They should also make one where a person has a Series 2 Apple Watch and they try to call for help, but the battery is dead and then they die as well to get people to upgrade to Series 7.
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I was thinking that
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they also need to enter that annoying 6 digit code and press ok, with their hand in a shark's mouth.

Every TV commercial i seen during these college football games are "in your face" lying
except for stella Atrios.
 
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hello(again) said:
I'm a 911 dispatcher in Colorado, and we get more accidental calls from iPhones and Watches than anyone would ever imagine.
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911 dispatcher autumn sunday 4PM:
"huh, your teddy bear was sacked under a bridge and in water?
we will send a paramedic to Aurora Ave and Federal right way!"
 
In Norway this the govermental rescue tips:
For those who do extreme sports or hiking, that they have non-cellular personal rescue beacons. (PLB)
And do not rely on cellular things.

Which means, you should not RELY on cellular things for safety, but other standards.
After what I am informed, these persons were lucky that the cellular way is improving.
PLBs vs. Satellite Messengers are still the primary way. I guess also for America.

I do not know what to think of Apple on this, because every life is so precious. But, I think that for those who do extreme or hard sports or hiking. Cellular has improved. We should keep improving, testing and maybe bring both a PLB and eventually some Apple Watch, if proven good ?
 
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hello(again) said:
I'm a 911 dispatcher in Colorado, and we get more accidental calls from iPhones and Watches than anyone would ever imagine. Your instinct as the dialer is to try and hang up quickly, but it's already reached our center at that point and per policy we have to try calling you back at least twice to ask if you have an emergency. The embarrassed "no no I don't have an emergency, it was my damn iPhone" conversations happen a hundred times a day for us.
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Sorry, my iphone calls the emergency number every now and then when I grab the phone in the wrong way. I hate it but I cannot turn it off. The police has already threatened to send me a voicebomb, whatever that is. I would blacklist the emergency number but that is also not possible on ios.
 
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deckard666 said:
Funny enough my dog bumped me to the ground yesterday on carpet and for the first time in over a year the fall detection went off..bang on !

I saw a stupid article on the web yesterday talking about this ad and saying basically why not just use your phone. d'oh -So you fall or are in a crash, your phone could be yards away or nowhere within reach and even if the fall detection didnt go off you can still activate your watch via your voice and it's always on your person....night and day in this scenario
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Happened to me as well. Playing with my dog and he bumped me.
My watch was about to call emergency when I fell.
Living alone with my dog and if I accidentally fall and something happens, it’s a cool feature.
 
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Jefe's MacAir said:
Had a similar experience when hitching a trailer. I got my finger caught in the hitch pin hole inside the receiver hitch. Every time I tried to make room by rocking the trailer, it only got tighter. Unfortunately my iPhone was in my truck. Fortunately, my Apple Watch was connected to my phone. I was able to call down to the house where my father was. He came up the barn and helped me release myself from the finger trap.
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That was handy! ?
 
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TheYayAreaLiving ? said:
Apple will say they don’t support series 2 anymore. That’s why it’s very important to upgrade yearly.
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And they don't. I bought a 4, and it's what I still use. If a new model has a feature I want its on me to buy it. So should each and every manufacturer of every consumer good have to take back and upgrade every older version of their product forever? This can swing the other way, where Apple - or any other product manufacturer- obsoletes an item within just a few years of its release, but the fact that new models have new features does not entitle people with older models to receive an upgrade.

And the 4 has some version of this feature, a few weeks ago my dog took off after a rabbit and I got knocked off my feet. My phone said it detected a hard fall and do I need to have 911 dialed, or something very similar. I didn't know my phone had that feature before this happened.
 
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m.dricu said:
That’s if you don’t forget to charge your Apple Watch daily ??‍♂️
Apple had better catch up with the competition in terms of battery life.
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Do you know why their competitors don't have all of the features Apple does? Because then their battery life would go way down. Everyone is using basically the same battery technology, the only difference is how big that battery is.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple today shared a new ad titled "911" that emphasizes the Apple Watch's life-saving potential during emergencies.

The suspenseful ad revolves around three individuals named Amanda, Jason, and Jim who were each able to get help by dialing 911 using the Apple Watch, with the ad highlighting excerpts from their frantic phone calls with dispatchers. Amanda, for example, said that her car had flipped over and was starting to fill up with water.


Fortunately, the ad concludes that all three individuals were rescued in minutes. "These are just three of many incredible stories where people were able to get help using Apple Watch," wrote Apple in the video's description.

The ad suggests that buying an Apple Watch could help save your life in emergencies where you don't have access to your iPhone by allowing you to dial 911 from your wrist. Apple Watch has an Emergency SOS feature that allows you to quickly get in touch with emergency services by pressing and holding the watch's side button and dragging your finger on the Emergency SOS slider that appears on the screen.

Importantly, if you have an Apple Watch without cellular connectivity, using Emergency SOS requires either having an iPhone nearby or the Apple Watch needs to be connected to a known Wi-Fi network and you must set up Wi-Fi calling. Apple has a support document on using Emergency SOS on the Apple Watch with more details.

Update: Apple shared a similar ad on Twitter highlighting the Apple Watch's fall detection feature.



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As my Apple Watch 6 basically saved my life my life due to the blood-oxygen level as low (below 90). This was shown on the hospital ER Doctor's Admission Reports stating: 'initial diagnosis for Covid was provided by patient's Apple Watch'... patient drove himself to ER upon recognizing the signs; and a positive test the same hour. I guess I will cherish Watch 6 forever and certainly buy the next one; but mount this one in a place of honor. By the way the next one hopefully will have Rockley Photonics sensors that can detect glucose/blood sugar and maybe blood pressure. Health 'clinic on your wrist' revolution continues. Feel free to convey to Apple; I'd make a testimonial if they wished and have the hospital records that show the diagnosis by Apple Watch. 3 months later I recovered fully.
 
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Macyourdayy said:
Maybe because Qualcomm has outrageous charges on their cellular chips that are easier to absorb on $100K cars whether they’re activated or not?
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I have a wifi only watch (series 4). Its linked to my phone and I can recieve and make phone calls using that watch. To be honest, I wish their cellular compatible version of the watch would work without needing to be tied to an online iPhone at all for texts and phone calls, but I have no problems using my wifi only watch for calls.
 
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