One of the functions that came from the hand of the Apple Watch Series 4 is the ECG, a feature that has allowed many people know heart problems that until now were unknown. But it is not the only function that is being useful for users of this device.
The Apple Watch fall detector is also helping to save the lives of some of its users. The most recent case is found in an 87-year-old woman who was in a car accident. Your Apple Watch he detected the accident as a fall and called emergency services.
As we can read in News Center Maine, Dotty White was involved in a car accident in Kennebruck, while driving home from the supermarket. Immediately after the accident, Dotty couldn't locate her phone to call emergency services, Call that the Apple Watch was already taking care of, in addition to alerting several members of his family.
Dotty, who broke several bones in the accident, claims be very grateful for the help your Apple Watch gave you. The fall detector is natively deactivated for those under 65, although Apple allows us to activate it if we have not reached retirement age.
How to activate the fall detector on the Apple Watch
- First of all, we go to the application Watch available on iPhone.
- Next, click on SOS emergency.
- Next, we activate the switch Fall detector.
At that moment a message will be displayed informing us that the most physically active users will be able to activate fall detection even without having fallen. This is the reason why this feature is natively disabled on the Apple Watch Series 4, only model where it is available.
