Apple Watch's built-in fall detection feature is a powerful resource in times of distress. At the heart of the feature is the detection of a significant, hard fall. When this occurs, the wearable device automatically taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm, and displays an alert. From there, you can decide whether to contact emergency services (from the watch, of course) or dismiss the warnings. Show
With fall detection, your Apple Watch is intuitive enough to know if you're moving. Following a fall, it will wait for you to stop to respond to the alert. If you're immobile and not moving, the watch will contact emergency services automatically if you don't answer within 60 seconds. After this, you'll see a 30-second countdown on your watch to the time the automatic call is made. You can tap Cancel at any time to stop the countdown. Once contact has been made to emergency services, those on your emergency contact list will receive a message indicating that a fall has occurred. It will also tell them your current location. Who has access to fall detection?Fall detection is an available feature on all the best Apple Watches, including the Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch Series 4 and later only, including the current Apple Watch Series 7. What happens during an emergency call?During your call with emergency personnel, your Apple Watch will play an audio message that informs them that Apple Watch has detected a fall. From there, it will also share your latitude and longitude coordinates. This recorded message will continue playing in a loop until you tap Stop Recorded Message. When this occurs, you can then hold a conversation with the responder. As mentioned above, once you're done with your call, click on the phone icon to hang up. Then, click Yes to confirm. How to turn fall detection onFall detection on your Apple Watch is off by default unless you are age 55 or older. From Apple's Support document (opens in new tab):
To ensure that your Apple Watch is ready to detect a fall, you can manually turn fall detection on from your iPhone.
How to make an emergency call after a fallWhen you fall and receive an alert on your Apple Watch, you'll see a slider to call emergency services alongside a button for I'm okay.
Remember, you can also make an emergency call at any time on your Apple Watch and iPhone using Emergency SOS. How to add friends and family to your emergency contact listYou establish emergency contacts through the Health app on iPhone. To add emergency contacts, follow these directions:
From here, you'll return to the Edit Medical ID screen. Tap add emergency contact to add someone else to your list. Repeat steps 4-6 above. What settings must be turned on for fall detection to work?You must have wrist detection on for your Apple Watch to call emergency services automatically.
How to turn fall detection offTo turn off fall detection for your Watch:
Great featureThe fall detection feature for Apple Watch can help you in an emergency. It's available in the Apple Watch Series 4 through Apple Watch Series 7 and even Apple Watch SE. Why did my Apple Watch not detect my fall?On your Watch go to Settings... scroll to SOS, then tap on Fall detection and see if it is on. If so... turn it Off....then On again.
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