It is comforting to know that the efforts of the people of Cupertino to help users of Apple Watch get satisfactory results. There are already many who can count that our Apple Watch has saved our lives at a critical moment.
Whether with the control of the heart rate, the ECG that incorporates from the series 4 or the fall detector, it is helping more and more users. Although it is not a very large group of cases, the truth is that the interest that the company puts in making its devices help us to take care of us.
A week ago, 911 emergency services in a neighborhood of Phoenix They received a call from a computer-generated voice telling them that someone had fallen and was not responding to their alerts.
The call came from an Apple Watch that detected that its wearer was in trouble. A nearby patrol ran to the location given by the device and found a man unconscious. The identity of the injured person has not been disclosed.
This fact has been explained to the news website KTAR the supervisor of Chandler Police Department, Adriana Cacciola. It says verbatim that "the man would never have been able to provide us with his location or any information about what was happening." "I wasn't even aware that any help was coming until a patrol showed up at the scene." He assures that if they had taken longer to arrive, the man could have had serious consequences.
Calling automatically for help after a fall is a feature of recent Apple Watch models. But users need to make sure Apple Watch drop detection is turned on. If it detects that the person has been immobile for about a minute, the watch will automatically call 911.