Apple Watch’s New Feature Helps Save A Sweden From His Collapse

Fall detection is among the most important features of the Apple Watch Series 4, which allows the watch to know when its wearer has tumbled or collapsed for any reason. The fall detection takes effect and identifies something probably bad has happened, and proposes to call for emergency.

If you do not respond to the offer, maybe due to unconsciousness, the watch will automatically call for help. The exact process, except for the last part, happened to a 34-year-old man when he was wearing the Apple Watch Series 4 and collapsed near his stove.

On Aftonbladet, a publication in Sweden, the story was recounted in which Gustavo Rodriguez was cooking by his stove when he suddenly collapsed and fell on the floor due to a back pain.

Gustavo could hardly move on the floor, that’s when he noticed the fall detection feature on this watch starting to tap on his wrist, offering to send for emergency services. This is such a good thing as Gustavo’s phone was in a different room.

Based on the reported news, despite the feature’s offer, the man managed to use the watch to call a relative instead, after he crawled all the way to his living room and got on the couch. He phoned his living-nearby mother-in-law, she arrived and switched off the stove, Gustavo was then taken to the hospital for a shot of morphine to kill his pain.

This is surely great news for those who own Apple Watch as to hear that the life-saving feature actually works in reality. FYI, the fall detection feature in Apple Watch Series 4 is automatically on for wearer aged 65 or older, but you can launch this feature manually if you’re younger.

Apple described, with the analysis of impact acceleration and analyzing wrist trajectory, Apple give its user a warning, which he or she can dismiss or make an emergency call. If the watch does not sense any mobility for 60 seconds after the alert, it will initiate a call for emergency service, along with a message of detailed location.