Apple iPhone and Watches sending false alarms to 911 centers
Summit County dispatchers received 524 false alarms in January from skiers' Apple devices with crash detection. People have 10 seconds to respond to the alerts.
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Summit County dispatchers received 524 false alarms in January from skiers' Apple devices with crash detection. People have 10 seconds to respond to the alerts.
IPhone 14 and Apple Watch 8 crash detection is causing problems for emergency services near ski slopes.
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911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive.
Emergency services could face a flurry of false alarms this summer as an automatic crash detection system is rolled out on Apple’s newest cellphones. The c