Yesterday I was out hiking in a National Park. My iPhone was in my pack
and I was wearing my Apple Watch.
When I took out my iPhone to use the camera I saw a notification that
the phone had called emergency services. There was no road where I was
and no helicopters appeared to rescue me so I'm not sure how these
automatic calls to 911 work. I had cellular coverage in the area of the
park I was hiking so the phone could have called 911.
My Apple Watch frequently believes that I have taken a hard fall even
when I have not, but I don't think that's what happened yesterday since
the watch doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that
there is an actual emergency (on Tuesday, when I was cross-country
skiing, and actually did take a hard fall, my Apple Watch didn't detect it).
I wonder how many false alarms are being called in by phones trying to
be helpful. I know that the crash detection on the iPhone 14, and on the Apple Watch Series 8 have been calling 911 because of Crash Detection mistakenly believing that a crash has occurred, when the owner is on a
roller coaster.
Yesterday I was out hiking in a National Park.
I saw a notification the phone had called emergency services.
My Apple Watch frequently believes that I have taken a hard fall
The solution is simple. Stop hiking or riding roller coastersK
doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that there isYou have that backwards. It calls 911 unless the user verifies that
an actual emergency
On 12/24/2022 9:37 PM, sms wrote:
doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that there is
an actual emergency
You have that backwards. It calls 911 unless the user verifies that
there is NO actual emergency
In article <toaae1$2smi0$1@dont-email.me>, Zaidy036
<Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> wrote:
On 12/24/2022 9:37 PM, sms wrote:
doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that there is
an actual emergency
You have that backwards. It calls 911 unless the user verifies that
there is NO actual emergency
it's another one of his fabricated scenarios.
In article <toaae1$2smi0$1@dont-email.me>, Zaidy036
<Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> wrote:
On 12/24/2022 9:37 PM, sms wrote:
doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that there is
an actual emergency
You have that backwards. It calls 911 unless the user verifies that
there is NO actual emergency
it's another one of his fabricated scenarios.
Yesterday I was out hiking in a National Park. My iPhone was in my pack
and I was wearing my Apple Watch.
I wonder how many false alarms are being called in by phones trying to
be helpful. I know that the crash detection on the iPhone 14, and on the Apple Watch Series 8 have been calling 911 because of Crash Detection mistakenly believing that a crash has occurred, when the owner is on a
roller coaster.
My phone also had the feature activated to automatically text my
emergency contacts (my brother and his son) after any call to 911.
On Dec 24, 2022 at 9:37:40 PM EST, "sms" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
Yesterday I was out hiking in a National Park. My iPhone was in my pack
and I was wearing my Apple Watch.
I wonder how many false alarms are being called in by phones trying to
be helpful. I know that the crash detection on the iPhone 14, and on the
Apple Watch Series 8 have been calling 911 because of Crash Detection
mistakenly believing that a crash has occurred, when the owner is on a
roller coaster.
I think it happens a lot. It happened to me once last summer. I'm not sure why. I have an Apple Watch with fall detection, and an iPhone 11 (which I think has no crash detection). There was no indication on the watch that it had detected a fall, so I think the phone decided to call. I was weedeating, with the phone in my pocket. I had the feature activated to call 911 if the side button was pressed 5 times rapidly, so that may have been triggered by vibrations from the weedeater.
I had no clue it had happened until the farm tenant pulled in looking for me.
I looked at my phone and saw I had voice mail from 911, saying they had gotten a call from my number and heard nothing but a loud noise (the weedeater
which prevented me from hearing their call), and told me to call back if something was really wrong. Since I didn't hear the phone when they called back, it had gone to voice mail.
My phone also had the feature activated to automatically text my emergency contacts (my brother and his son) after any call to 911. So they received texts saying I had called emergency services and giving my GPS location. They had no clue what was going on, so they called me, which I didn't hear over the
weedeater noise. So they called the tenant and told him to come see if I was alive.
I hear lots of stories about emergency services being dispatched in response to 911 protocols. But apparently in our area, the protocol is for dispatch to call the number back, and not send help unless an emergency is confirmed. In this case, I was somewhat relieved to be spared the embarrassment of emergency
vehicles rolling into my driveway, but it bothers me a little to think that they would not respond in an actual emergency ir I was unable to answer their callback
sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
Yesterday I was out hiking in a National Park. My iPhone was in my pack
and I was wearing my Apple Watch.
When I took out my iPhone to use the camera I saw a notification that
the phone had called emergency services. There was no road where I was
and no helicopters appeared to rescue me so I'm not sure how these
automatic calls to 911 work. I had cellular coverage in the area of the
park I was hiking so the phone could have called 911.
My Apple Watch frequently believes that I have taken a hard fall even
when I have not, but I don't think that's what happened yesterday since
the watch doesn't have the phone call 911 unless the user verifies that
there is an actual emergency (on Tuesday, when I was cross-country
skiing, and actually did take a hard fall, my Apple Watch didn't detect it). >>
I wonder how many false alarms are being called in by phones trying to
be helpful. I know that the crash detection on the iPhone 14, and on the
Apple Watch Series 8 have been calling 911 because of Crash Detection
mistakenly believing that a crash has occurred, when the owner is on a
roller coaster.
The solution is simple. Stop hiking or riding roller coasters…
The fall detection on Apple Watch is kind of a pain. The first time I
got it was when I knelt down to pull some weeds, and it frequently
triggers when no fall has occurred.
The solution is simple. Stop hiking or riding roller coasters…
The
fall detection on Apple Watch is kind of a pain. The first time I got it
was when I knelt down to pull some weeds, and it frequently triggers
when no fall has occurred.
sms wrote:
The fall detection on Apple Watch is kind of a pain. The first time I
got it was when I knelt down to pull some weeds, and it frequently
triggers when no fall has occurred.
The watch triggered from monitoring your heart rate after you were
arguing with nospam...
On 12/29/2022 1:06 PM, badgolferman wrote:
sms wrote:
The fall detection on Apple Watch is kind of a pain. The first time IThe watch triggered from monitoring your heart rate after you were
got it was when I knelt down to pull some weeds, and it frequently
triggers when no fall has occurred.
arguing with nospam...
LMAO
On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 05:22:55 +1100, News <News@group.name> wrote:
On 12/29/2022 1:06 PM, badgolferman wrote:
sms wrote:
The fall detection on Apple Watch is kind of a pain. The first time IThe watch triggered from monitoring your heart rate after you were
got it was when I knelt down to pull some weeds, and it frequently
triggers when no fall has occurred.
arguing with nospam...
LMAO
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