The Cupertino-based company has integrated accident or fall detection into its latest connected watch or smartphone models. If the person in their operating system IOs 16 does not cancel the call within 20 seconds, the device will call the emergency services. That’s what our colleague 01net tells us.
Attention: false alarms
Ingeniously, however, the system produces more and more false alarms. Whether in amusement parks or on ski slopes in the USA, the integrated detectors that make it possible to determine the parameters for accident prediction are beginning to falter. The emergency services then collect unnecessary automated calls. So several ambulances arrived in vain at an amusement park…
No emergency goes unnoticed, and this type of true false alarm mobilizes rescue teams who may not be able to respond to real and unambiguous others. High-speed drivers who suddenly brake or those looking for a thrill don’t even know that their favorite gadget is alerting a rescue coordination center.
An update is planned for the 1st quarter of 2023
Apple is aware of the serious problem this can pose and is planning an update in Q1 2023. The 16.2 version deployed should have improved this, but apparently it wasn’t.