An iPhone 14 has helped save somebody’s life once more, due to Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite characteristic and crash detection technology.
A person who drove off a cliff in Los Angeles and landed 400 ft beneath was reached by search and rescue on Friday after his iPhone despatched computerized SOS alerts, Apple mentioned.
“At 10:51pm on Fri we have been alerted to a automobile 400′ over a cliff by the motive force’s iPhone 14 crash detection. Location was Mt Wilson Rd. After finding him we guided in an @LACoFireAirOps copter. Suffered head trauma,” Mike Leum, search and rescue first responder, tweeted over the weekend with footage of the rescue.
Leum mentioned the driver would have died if his iPhone 14 hadn’t despatched alerts to emergency companies.
The Emergency SOS via satellite characteristic arrived for the iPhone 14 in November final yr, and means that you can contact emergency companies and share your location even once you’re out of cell service vary. The service is free for iPhone 14 users for the next two years.
Crash detection is accessible on the iPhone 14 and the Apple Watch 8, and makes use of the axis gyroscope and excessive G-force accelerometer, in addition to your GPS and microphone, to detect an affect (although it has reportedly mistaken rollercoaster rides for car accidents). It then robotically connects you with emergency companies, passing alongside your location data, in addition to notifying your emergency contacts.
It is not the primary time the iPhone 14 has been used to assist rescue somebody — Emergency SOS helped locate a stranded man in Alaska and alerted first responders to a highway crash in California in December.
This is how to use the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via satellite to contact 911 if the worst ought to occur.
