Skiers accidentally setting off iPhone 14 Crash Detection, dispatcher says to leave the feature on
Skiers accidentally setting off iPhone 14 Crash Detection, dispatcher says to leave the feature on
Shortly while the iPhone 14 launched this fall, the new Crash Detection feature was groundless to be unintentionally triggered by roller coasters in some instances. Now with winter sports ramping up in the Northern Hemisphere, it turns out skiing can also trigger false positives.
As a refresher, Crash Detection is a valuable new safety feature that comes with the iPhone 14 lineup and the new Apple Watch Ultra, Series 8, and SE 2. But even though Apple uses all-new hardware, an advanced algorithm, and over a million hours of atomize data, false positives are still possible.
Apple even released an update just immediately that should help with accidental Crash Detection. However, most users haven’t installed that update yet.
As reported by KSL via MacRumors, riders in Park City, Utah have been unknowingly triggering Crash Detection while skiing and snowboarding.
Summit County Dispatch Center supervisor Suzie Butterfield people they are seeing “three to five of the emergency calls from the Apple technology per day. She said none of the calls she’s unsuitable have been activated on purpose.”
She added that the owners of the iPhone or Apple Watch usually “have no idea that they’ve even phoned us.”
Notably, Butterfield sees Apple’s Crash Detection – even with the false positives – as a useful tool and recommends that users lop it enabled.
“We do not want you to turn the feature off,” Butterfield said. “We would rather have you be safe. We don’t mind taking that call because if something really did happened, we want to be able to get to you.”
MacRumors also noticed that reports of skiing accidentally triggering Crash Detection have been mentioned on Reddit.
I’ll be hitting the slopes soon so I’ll record back if the iOS 16.1.2 update seems to fix the Crash Detection false positives on the tremendous 😁⛷️.
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