iphone 14 crash detection

27Jun

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Bizarre! iPhone 14 crash detection feature causes chaos at Bonaroo music festival

[ad_1] The Apple iPhone 14 crash detection feature is back in the spotlight again and this time for the wrong reasons. It so transpired that, during the first day of the Bonaroo Music and art festival, iPhone 14 users made multiple 911 emergency calls by accident and it created total chaos for a county in Tennessee.The new Apple iPhone 14 emergency feature was rolled out last year and it is called “crash detection feature”. This is an automatic feature in the phone that alerts authorities if the owner has been in a crash and is unable to operate the phone due to injuries. However, during the festival, the iPhone made false emergency calls when owners were dancing! According to the Director of Coffee County 911 Communication Center Scott LeDuc, In comparison to the average number of 911 ...

Feel safer with iPhone 14 crash detection? Good news! iOS 16.4 to make it better

23Mar

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Feel safer with iPhone 14 crash detection? Good news! iOS 16.4 to make it better

[ad_1] Apple iPhone 14 Crash Detection feature is on by default courtesy iOS 16. The feature allows the iPhone to detect a severe car crash and connect you to emergency services and notify your contacts. However, there have been certain instances when the feature triggered an influx of false calls from skiers and snowboarders in several US states and Canada. And now, with the upcoming iOS 16.4 update, Apple is expected to bring additional crash detection optimizations for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models to get rid of the glitches as well as to add enhancements.Informing about the same, a report by MacRumors said, "iOS 16.4 includes additional Crash Detection optimizations for all iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models, according to Apple's release notes for the software update, which...

iPhone 14, Apple Watch sending FALSE crash detection alarms to 911!

5Feb

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iPhone 14, Apple Watch sending FALSE crash detection alarms to 911!

[ad_1] iPhone 14 and Apple Watch users are facing problems with its fancy new crash detection feature. It was launched last year on the iPhone 14 and the latest Apple Watch Series 8, Ultra, and Apple Watch SE 2022. It detects a severe car crash and automatically calls emergency services in case the user fails to respond within 20 seconds. However, many of these are false alarms and these have not amused emergency responders at all. In fact, the situation has become so bad that emergency dispatchers are flagging this shocking increase in false 911 calls. Notably, even when skiers and snowboarders fall, Apple's Crash Detection feature goes off.The New York Times reported a case in Colorado's Summit County, which houses multiple ski resorts, where a dispatcher and a police officer express...

iPhone 14 saves life again, crash detection saves car crash victims from canyon

15Dec

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iPhone 14 saves life again, crash detection saves car crash victims from canyon

[ad_1] iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite and Crash Detection feature saved car crash victims from serious accident. iPhone 14 isn't much of a big upgrade over the iPhone 13 but there's one feature that Apple advertised the most – the new Emergency SOS via Satellite and Crash Detection. Although considered to be a simple feature, this safety feature has already proven its worth by saving a man's life earlier in Alaska, and several other isolated incidents thereafter. Now, another incident shows how helpful the Crash Detection feature can be in the case of a serious car accident.A car accident took place in the US that saw the victims' car falling down a mountainside 300 feet down a remote canyon. The incident took place on the Angeles Forest Highway in the Angeles National Forest...