I just wanted to share my personal experience and ask for feedback. I have owned an AppleWatch for years now and love it. One feature that I’ve always appreciated is the fall detection. I’ve had a few instances where I’ve clapped hard or done something else benign and it prompts the question if I’ve fallen and if I am alright. Well, Sunday morning I fell down an entire flight of stairs and nothing. Luckily my son was present and helped me call 911 on my phone. Has anyone experienced this? I’m disappointed that in an actual emergency situation it didn’t help at all.
i have fallen and it does nothing - and yes i was still long enough that it should have
Apple Watch cannot detect all falls
I fell hard once, caught my toe on a step and straight down, watch didn’t register it. Thumped my husband’s arm in jest one night and it thought that was a fall though!
I fell hard about a month ago and fall detection activated! I think this was the third time I fell or landed hard against something and it came up
Last night I had it randomly go off🤦♀️
I fell once and saw the options come up for “I’m ok” or “call emergency” but they disappeared as I was getting up, does movement tell the watch that you’re ok so it dismisses the fall notification?
I believe it only works if you’re motionless for 30 seconds or so after the fall.
Since you fell down an entire flight of stairs and appearantly lived, congratulations. But again since you fell down an entire flight of stairs I suspect the trouble is with you and not the technology. Just kidding.
But perhaps we’ve become a little too reliant on technology.
There are news articles about Google Pixel phones not calling 911 when the owner has dialed 911. Talk about a sinking feeling from something most take for a given it’ll work.Yes I have had similar experiences, the one time I did lose consciousness and fell down and got a concussion the watch didn’t do anything. Luckily my wife found me soon after and called 911
You need to make sure you only fall these ways next time.
Ditto here. Thought it was just me. Had lots of false fall alarms over the years, but never an alarm with a real fall. My one big fall with no injury that did require a 911 call was a very slow gentle fall. I thought because it was a gentle fall the alarm did not trip. I did however really need and used the ability to call emergency from my watch as I could not get to my phone(s).
