Yes, noyb, 911 answered.
Once I was just cleaning my watch and it started calling emergency services, but I stopped it in time (I think)
I have not… I would be worried about the potential fine and jail time for making a frivolous emergency call. Yeah, I will probably just get a warning but I know there are potential penalties.
The first night I got my AW S9 I wanted to just shut it off, because it was charged up and I didn’t want to wear it for sleep tracking. So, at like 2:30AM I, half-asleep, tried figuring out how to shut it down for the first time.
I discovered that the shutdown process on AW is very similar to Wear OS watches - just going into Settings > General > Shut Down… The only problem is that, while on Wear OS there is a slider you have to swipe to confirm shutdown, but on AW that slider is instead for Emergency Call (and the power button is just a tiny on screen button you have to press). Well, I swiped out of habit before even reading.
I hit hang up the moment I saw that it triggered a call, thought that maybe I prevented it from going through, but then my phone started ringing literally like 2 seconds later. I knew ignoring the call would probably lead to EMS at my door, so I answered and just said “sorry, my mistake, new apple watch” and the nice lady on the other end already knew what I meant.
Not the button but my husband experienced atrial fibrillation while I was away. He passed out and fell, his Apple Watch called 911, and the ambulance showed up. Awesome!
Goodness, I hope he’s ok. Makes me feel bad for upvoting this!!
Yes! And I’m pretty sure a lot of hospital staff went out and got themselves an Apple Watch—it was even announced on morning rounds to the residents.
I was at universal Orlando on the Hagrid’s the motorbike adventure ride. When I got off I realize my watch was calling 911! I had to immediately stop the call cuz clearly there wasn’t any emergency! I think it triggered from that drop track that’s in the last segment of the ride so it thought that I was in a car crash! If you’re unsure what I am talking about, go YouTube the pov of the ride!
A few months ago, I was changing watch bands on my Ultra. The band was sticking and I gave it a wrench and it decided to let go easily. My watch flew across the room, hit the wall and went behind the sofa.
By the time I could retrieve it, it was dialing 911 because I didn’t respond to the ‘Did you fall’ prompt quickly enough. I tried to kill the call but I knew it wasn’t going to work, so I dialed 911 again and told the operator that I may just have called in error. He laughed when I told him what happened, but told me he was required to send a car anyway. I got him to agree with no sirens and lights. (It was almost midnight).
I met the car in my driveway, and finally convinced the cop it was an accident. I know he wanted to search my house, hoping to find a crime.
I am more careful now, but it’s still good to know that I fell down a flight of stairs, that someone would come
that’s interesting that they were still required to send out a cop car. there was another story in this post comments about accidental 911 call, and the person managed to convince a dispatcher not to send out any vehicles. now if this was a real emergency and i was threatened to say that nothing happened, I’d appreciate it if the dispatcher sent out a cop car anyways
From their perspective, it could have been my wife trying to call because I was beating her with a baseball bat
My watch did this while I was on a roller coaster. Came off to a lot of missed calls. Caught it just before it dialed emergency services.
I was juggling everything trying to get out of a conference room. My phone started the whoop whoop thing and I managed to get it to stop but not before I got a call back from Seattle Police. The worst part is that I worked for a major corporation with in-house security and fire department so you weren’t supposed to call 911 on site since we had an internal emergency number. Whoopsie daisy.
I wiped out on my bike and after I gathered myself to run back home from embarrassment (as I fell in front of some couple) I had to quickly stop my watch from calling 911.
Got hit by a car and knocked to the ground on my bike. Didn’t get knocked out but pretty banged up.
Stood up to my watch doing a countdown for an emergency call. I cancelled it but pretty cool to see my trusty S5 still detects a big fall.
I use it every so often on my watch by accident when my hands are wet. I typically get it to hang up right after the timer runs down and so far no one has showed up to rescue me.
Slipped on some ice and landed straight on my ass. I knew how to fall so I didn’t hit my head but it was very cartoonish. I heard my watch go off and I was able to stop it in time but I appreciated it.
I accidentally did. It was early morning, and I didn’t have my glasses on, I wanted to shut off my watch and saw the slide prompt, I thought it was the slide to shut off, but nope. Got a quick call back and had to confirm I was not having an emergency.
I did once after noticing a car crash happened in front of me. it was an instant reaction. i was so shocked by my reaction, I couldn’t stop telling the story to people, dismissing the on the actual crash and putting the spot light on using the emergency button.
fucking apple freak.