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