Is there a way to select who gets the notification (or block specific people) ? I’m not an Apple user, but I have a mom with heart problems. Would hate to drop a phone on a highway (not as impossible as it may sound) and find out that she had a heart attack once I get a replacement.
Bob Sorokanich
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Journalist with nearly a decade of experience covering the auto industry and car culture.
“But clearly, the technology needs work.“ Read more
I KNEW SHE WAS SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME WITH MY PHONE
Did it run off to “console” your girlfriend and then try to get her in bed?
Well, you just convinced me to figure out how to turn off crash detection on my new watch. I’m already annoyed at my phone asking me if I had a fall once or twice a week after martial arts practice, I can’t imagine the hell of it contacting the cops and my family every time as well.
Drop it in a fire, they’ll figure you’ve gone to hell. (-;
I think this is, false alarm/mischief, crying wolf, acting on insufficient information, Apple sauce and yet it is still racked up as a technological win, when it is clearly a multifaceted failure.
I wonder if the iPhone 14 will tell my family I’ve drowned if I drop it in the shitter.
My Garmin watch does it sometimes if I stop running too quickly. More irritating was that it didn’t do it when I wrecked on my bike last weekend.
I’ve occasionally stopped suddenly enough that my Garmin head unit thinks I’ve crashed my bike. It warns me for at least ten seconds before contacting anybody.
Garmin cycling head units have incident detection (that you can disable). Crash and it will instruct a connected phone to call/text a preset list of contacts. Unfortunately, if you brake suddenly for suicidal squirrels it will think you crashed and only give you 30 seconds or so to get your phone out and cancel the… Read more
Wait. You have a Cardo bluetooth system. Why mount your phone to the bike at all? Why not keep it in a jacket pocket? Read more
Found the Tim Cook bootlicker!
Why can’t the motorbike have this “feature” instead of the phone? Read more
Hopefully it doesn’t text your insurance company to report spirited driving
Should have just called them to let them know you were okay- oh wait...
This iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Ultra crash detection feature is great, especially for someone like me, who regularly drives fast cars and motorcycles on and off the track. Read more
“and worse, I had no idea anybody had received this terrifying message. Wouldn’t you think you’d get a notification on your Apple Watch, allowing you to dismiss the crash alert before it gives your whole family a collective heart attack?” Read more
So, dropped Iphone texts entire family and calls the police when it falls onto the ground. And that is classified as “apple crash alert works”.
That's a great story and a good warning!