Apple’s Crash Detection feature, which rolled out with the iPhone 14 in September 2022, has a problem \u2014 it calls emergency services when iPhone 14 users ride rollercoasters.<\/p>\n
According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong>, the feature mistakes the sharp turns and hard braking on rollercoasters for real emergencies, resulting in emergency services being dispatched to amusement parks on several occasions.<\/p>\n When the safety feature detects rapid deceleration, it alerts first responders via an automated audio message saying the iPhone or Apple Watch owner has been in a car crash.<\/p>\n “The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone,” the audio message says<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This audio message repeats several times while providing responders with GPS coordinates.<\/p>\n According to the Wall Street Journal, there have been at least six “false alarms” from Apple’s Crash Detection in Warren County alone.<\/p>\n The county is home to the King Island amusement park, and iPhone 14 users across the US have experienced similar incidents.<\/p>\n Apple unveiled its Crash Detection feature<\/a><\/strong> during its “Far Out” event on 7 September 2022, equipping its latest devices \u2014 the iPhone 14, Apple Watch Series 8, and Apple Watch Ultra \u2014 with a gyroscopic sensor and high-g accelerometer.<\/p>\n If the sensors detect rapid deceleration, the iPhone will display an alert and call emergency services if it isn’t dismissed within 20 seconds.<\/p>\n There have been at least six “false alarms” raised in Warren County alone, with users across the US reporting similar incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":463789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,78464,81227,81424,77626],"class_list":["post-463787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch-series-8","tag-apple-watch-ultra","tag-crash-detection","tag-iphone-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463867,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463787\/revisions\/463867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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