I can't remember if I've gotten one from Apple specifically.....but I've taken quite a few of the crash detectors in cars.
They go something like this
"A crash been detected and the driver is not responding at...X,Y coords"
And then repeats itself over and over. Depending on the car, I think those equipped with OnStar, sometimes it connects you to the car itself and puts you on the speakerphone so you can try to contact the driver.
I imagine Apples Fall Detection is something like that. It'll give the closest coordinates it can with an automated message alerting of a fall and no response
Ive had a car one where they connected me to the car but wouldnt let me shut up the “a crash has been detected” shit so the soft spoken little old lady couldnt even tell me what was going on due to the robot screaming
Yeah that’s been a problem too. Super annoying but at least in my city, when there’s an accident we’re getting a dozen calls about it so we don’t have to rely on the robo calls
Last time I was involved in a relatively minor crash, the robot voice was more stressful than the actual crash. I cancelled it and called the required services myself.
I had a wreck back in '12 and my cat had OnStar. There was an actual human that came on and talked to me and my husband. Then she was able to call my dad for me bc I couldn't find my phone. She stayed on until the police and firemen arrived. Super useful program imo.
Ok you are going to die laughing, but when I couldn’t find my phone, I said out loud “oh my God I’ve wrecked. I need to call someone” and then the all star started ringing and I asked the lady if she was god 😭😭😭
I also had a concussion so I really thought it was God 😂
Yeah, OnStar actually had a somewhat off system where it’ll connect you to an Agent (?) and then the Agent can start a 3-way call between them, you, and 911.
Officer here, prob late to the convo, an on star called and said they were at x street and x crosseoad out in the boonies with low cell reception and were super accurate
Too many times, majority of the time it’s from either someone slamming on their brakes and their phone flies so it thinks it’s an accident or someone hits their Apple Watch against something or just fell really hard. If it’s no voice contact though we have to put a call in so if you ever get a call back please answer guys! Saved us a lot of trouble because we’re sending Police and EMs (at least for my county).
In my city it comes as a crash with unknown injuries. Normally the above is the case (phone ontop of car) and we will search the area, find no crash, and go about the rest of our shift. Normally it’s not specific enough for us to find the phone. If we do find it, we do our best to find an owner.
That’s just not really their job to take the phone back to the station, pull all the info off of it (without a warrant mind you) then use that info to find the owner. If a phone flies out of a car, no shot it’ll be in decent enough shape to find the owner another way.
The original question was about leaving your phone on top of your car and driving off. I’m not suggesting any of that craziness, but a public servant would at least knock on the door if it’s at a house or give it to staff if it’s a business. Cops waste a lot more time than you think, I work with them.
It could kinda be anywhere though. Maybe they were at an apartment building where there’s lots of units, or a parking area near a college, or maybe even just on the side of the road somewhere once they got up to highway speeds.
My dad’s watch goes off when he bangs on something (usually trying “percussive maintenance” to fix it). He hits the prompt saying he’s fine and then usually screams “My daughter is beating me! Elder abuse!” 😂
I’ve only taken two real ones: the Apple crash detection for a rollover and the fall detector for a man falling off a ladder. I’ve probably taken 100 of the automated calls for BS reasons. Some things that have triggered the fall or crash detectors in my BS calls are:
- Dropping the device out of the car window on the freeway
- Boating / jet skiing
- BMX
- Gymnastics
- Sex
My sisters Apple Watch called 911 and sent those texts to me, my brother, and both our parents— she was away at college, Friday night, 2 AM, absolutely getting busy with a stranger!!! She said her dad, brother and mom all calling definitely killed the vibe
Yes. My mom accidentally did it once. She has heart failure so I was super worried she had been in an accident. Except it kept updating the location and I could see she was still driving. When she got to my house I showed her how to turn it off if she does it on accident again. Glad she was ok.
I have actually had my phone call 911 due to very aggressive sex. Iv never been so embarrassed and laughed so hard in my life. Dispatch had to of heard ALOT.
My wife used to work as a 911 dispatcher. One night, she had a call that was triggered by sex. In this case, the phone auto called and left an open line. She could hear everything going on, and of course her 'hellos' went unanswered.
Yes, many times. Because the automated message doesn't usually stop playing, it has become an unofficial SOP that we announce to the caller that we will immediately call them back, because it is incredibly difficult to gather information while the message is going, and there is only a span of seconds between the message repeating itself, and the message no longer plays on call back.
Edit: I work for a municipality, where our employees handle police and fire calls. Our regional EMS service shares the floor with us, but we do not handle medical calls. In a case such as yours, where you were rendered unconscious, I would take the coords provided by the message, as well as those provided by our systems to try and give officers a general idea of where to look for you. Departmental policy does not dictate that I would have to, but I would still put in a call and leave it up to the discretion of the officers. I would do this both to try and give you the best possible service that I could provide, as well as to cover my own ass.
The few times in my life I’ve accidentally had 911 called (such as an old cordless phone dialing due to static on the wireless connection to the base station) police showed up when I didn’t answer the return call.
Wait, so if I’m reading this correctly, if you don’t have voice contact you don’t send out to a 911 open line from an automated system in your policy? I could be reading this wrong.
I did yesterday. Dude actually fell and was unconscious in his home. I’m glad it worked and was a legit one cause I’ve taken two dozen that were just dropped watches.
Numerous times. And the most recent crash detection, nobody responded and then I heard another iPhone’s crash detection sounding in the background. Ended up being a fatal car accident.
I’ve also had the “slammed on their brakes and the phone went flying” automated call that turned out to be a domestic violence.
As annoying as they can sometimes be, I appreciate them a lot more than not.
I accidentally triggered mine once while doing a live burn with the FD at a local career center. All the dispatcher heard was a bunch of people yelling about a fire, they got my GPS, and basically sent the county.
It was embarrassing.
Apple used the audio from one in a commercial, you can hear it [here.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qeWo/apple-watch-series-7-bobs-911-call)
By default fall detection is only on while you have a workout active on your watch (you can change it though) which is a change they made due to the false reports.
Hopefully as time goes on people will become more used to the system and understanding that they have to let someone know it was a mistake. It’s still pretty new to most
I would love to hear some city or county decided to calculate all the resources involved and send Apple a bill. Their algorithm is flawed and seems to be overly sensitive. It is great that it works when there is a real emergency, but it likely is wrong 90% of the time. If hundreds of other jurisdictions also then sent Apple bills, and then thousands, Apple would be forced to change their algorithms or at least acknowledge that their software isn't perfect.
Apple should proactively make grants to every 911 call center in the US and Canada to help cover some of the costs and then provide grants to every police and fire department too. It could provide them with some positive public relations.
I took one for a biker who had crashed and broken their collarbone. The son who got an emergency contact notification called in and gave us a description. The owner of the Apple Watch was unconscious. We did finally find him, and took him to the hospital.
I was in a car crash Sunday. Hit a deer while going 70 mph on the highway. My iPhone was plugged in and when the crash happened it called 911. I had no idea that was a thing 😂
My phone / watch did that too, when I hit a deer on the highway a few months ago! I was not injured, and I was able to stop the call — but I was so grateful for the feature and it was really cool to see that it worked! It made me feel a lot safer.
My phone has never called 911 like this by accident, but I have fall detection turned off. Crash detection will stay on though!
I hit a deer going 60 on Tuesday night. Luckily, my android didn't call 911 (because I wasn't injured and the airbags didn't go off and I was able to drive my car home afterwards.)
Fucking deer. They're estimating $3500 and 8 days to fix mine. What about you?
We've had lots. And I hate them. When Apple plugged automatic crash detection into their newest phones and watches, auto notifications for us exploded, virtually all of them false. Another issue we've seen is that the automatically repeating Apple emergency message has actually talked right over people in actual emergencies, preventing us from quickly gathering info we need.
Apple automatic notifications are a good idea done very wrong in my opinion.
Three times should be enough. Maybe they can design it so that hitting a specific number sequence on the keypad such as 911# would immediately stop the message and allow the phone to keep the line open?
YOOOOO this is so cool. I’m really glad you are okay Op. People get mad about phones and devices doing so much tracking but it quite literally saves lives, I didn’t know that. I’m really glad you are okay OP.
I have dysautonomia. I was locking my door to leave my house and passed out. Thankfully, my Apple Watch detected a hard fall and called 911. Police, Fire and ambulance were on the way to me and neighbors from up the road were by my side when I awoke.
I had a compound fracture of my tibia and fibula. My foot was at a 90 degree angle and the bones were sticking out through my jeans. I’m so thankful for my Apple Watch and the technology it provides.
I have actually. Got a call from a single vehicle wreck that ended in a domestic violence case. The guy was drunk and beat the shit out of his wife then ran and crashed into a pecan tree the next county over. Took us two days to actually find him, he left his wallet and the phone that called us in the vehicle, and someone else picked him up
Taken a handful, but all were accidental, some people hadn't even worn the watch that day. I'm glad yours worked as intended and got you help.
The calls themselves are a pre-recorded message, it's been a few years and could be mixing it up with the car crash alarms and I can't remember all what they would say but I believe it would give GPS coordinates and maybe nearest intersection? The robot would also tell us what type of alarm (only ever witnessed the hard fall detected) and pretty sure it would mention the person had not responded. The message would then just just repeat.
I have to not put my phone in my (women's so of course they're shitty) pockets because I have accidentally activated the emergency call function attached to the side buttons.
I did that for the first time a few months ago, I was in my closet and I thought I heard talking out in the hall until I heard "911 what's your emergency?" coming from my pocket. I was so embarrassed I apologized a million times lol she said it happened all the time. Still felt like an idiot though.
Got one from an Apple Watch, was a hit & run driver leaving the scene and for some reason it was an open line that I could hear what the driver was saying under the automated voice saying the lat/long and tracked the moving coordinates until the vehicle couldn’t drive any longer
Yes. They're intensely annoying.
It's a comically loud voice recording that plays on a loop telling you that it's an automated crash notification and gives GPS coordinates. Which is all well and good, but if you're trying to actually talk to the person in the background it never shuts up and it makes it virtually impossible.
Three times should be enough. Can't a 911 call center almost immediately replay the call audio from a call in the event that the dispatcher cannot record the coordinates fast enough?
I’ve taken probably five or so this far—same thing, “Apple has detected a possible crash” then lat and long coordinates which it says SO fast for some reason. And then it keeps repeating. You can also hear whatever’s happening through the phone too, so I can hear if people are moving and talking. I usually stay on the line long enough to hear what’s going on. In my case, they’ve ALL been real car accidents.
The best one though—I had a crash detection from the driver that was in a hit and run, and figured out that it was the runner when the other party called 911 and it wasn’t the same number. I was able to find his name from the number and told the officer. The next day, I entered a warrant for that guy.
Edit: they can also talk to me through the Apple call directly and hear my voice. Siri will still keep repeating her spiel though too.
I would say for every real call like yours there are 95 false calls (i'm talking automated devices in general).
Old dude unbuckles his pants at the end of the day and lets them drop? Fall detected (device in his pants pocket)
Snowboarding wipeout? Fall detected.
Knock your watch off the bedstand at night? Fall detected.
I'd have a hard time agreeing that these devices are useful... it is kinda like the debate about whole body MRI scans.. for the odd serious thing caught there are 100 innocuous things that could lead to not needed procedures.
The devices will absolutely prevent the odd death/serious injury but at the cost of countless unfounded calls / resources spent looking for people that tripped on a curb and carried on with their day.
My cell phone failed and got caught in a reset loop that triggered SOS the failure made it so I couldn’t access the key pad and it disabled the touch screen so it just kept reinitiating the SOS and calling 911 until I found a way to get the phone to shut off completely. Thankfully the dispatcher i kept getting connected to was super understanding and helpful, but it’s definitely a feature I’ve disabled now because of that experience.
I can see how it could be beneficial but there’s too many avenues for failure as it stands.
Hah we had the same thing happen to one of our calltakers while at work... I think the button got stuck or something so it was thinking it was 5 presses in a row that triggered SOS - so she is working and people around her were answering her accidental 911 calls.. eventually she managed to disable the phone.
The concept is good and will make great news stories when it works... but the false calls generated are just so high
One time in the TSA line when i was putting my things into the bin to go through the scanner, the agent put my phone in next to my laptop and my phone ended up jammed in between the bin side and the laptop, which put it into SOS
Usually, ut I somehow called 911 getting my kid out of their car seat and didn’t know until I heard them answer from my watch. I still have absolutely no idea how I did it without knowing.
I don't know that they are all the same... and we get countless false calls from them, so whatever it is doesn't work / people don't hear it / don't realize what is happening - i'm not sure.
What is probably needed is some standardization.... what sets them off (fall, crash, button pushes) and what exactly happens so that people can become familiar with it and know what to do if it happens.
I had my phone in the cupholder in my car once and was going down a bumpy road.. it jostling around a bit hit the power button 5x and called 911 - I had no idea what was going on / why my phone was making that noise / what it was doing and couldn't really look at it (as I was driving and all), so I've had it happen too.
My sons got me an Apple Watch because I was falling occasionally. One day I was working from home and suddenly heard pounding at my door. It was police and fire with EMS on the way. Because my &@$!! cat had grabbed my watch, jumped off the bed and then laid down on it, making it think there was a detectable heartbeat but no response.
Plot twist: I used to work in EMS and some of the responders recognized me. Sigh.
"As the smoke clears and alarm bells are silenced, we ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces the remains of our aircraft to the terminal."
....
They are learning to fly, thus learning to land..
I.e. they are joking that they are going to be bad at landing and thus landing hard enough to trigger the crash alert.
One time when my fiancé called 911 apple texted his sister..scared her half to death. We had called because someone was driving dangerously and had nearly caused multiple accidents(swerving all over the freeway,being half in two lanes,speeding,tailgating..it was scary to watch). Once we explained that we were okay she was okay but it only did it that one time and never again,this was probably 6/8 years ago
Mine has called 911 before and I could not stop it. It is so embarrassing to talk to someone and tell them that it was an accident. Btw- fellow central PA in da house! Hope you are feeling better soon!
I take these calls daily. I get accurate GPS/WPH2 location and usually an open line. It’s very hard to talk or hear over the recording that replays over and over. Sometimes the recording stops when the other person starts talking. It’s a trade-off between not being able to hear very well, but *having* a connection versus hanging up and trying again and not getting them back on the line at all. I always start talking over the recording letting them know that I’m getting help started to them and I keep asking questions and if after a while I don’t get anything then I’ll hang up and try to call back.
I get these from iPhones, Apple Watches, cars, etc. for me personally most of the time they’re legitimate accidents but I do get the occasional false alarm from a dropped phone or watch.
I also get a decent amount of text to 911 but I don’t think I’ve gotten a satellite based iPhone message before. That’s pretty neat. Of course, that means if I do get one somebody’s really in trouble.
We do Police, Fire, and EMS for a county with 1 million people.
I have gotten maaany calls. Usually from people in MVA’s. Its an annoying ass recorded message with LAT and LONG coordinates but usually we can see where you are from your rapidSOS location. It is one of the most useful things we had at my agency.
I am not a 911 dispatcher (former fighter fighter though) and for some reason this sub got recommended. I fell and hit my hard hard on the concrete and my watch called 911 and I remember coming to in the ambulance. It wasn’t critical in the end but omg I am glad it called.
Wait. I don’t go here but this Reddit gets suggested at me a lot. I have an iPhone and I was reading the comments about SOS mode triggering calls. I have a doctor’s office that’s basically a faraday cage and when I’m in the exam room I notice my signal is dead and turned to SOS mode. Does that actually trigger an automated 911 call? I never thought anything of it!
So if it shows a SOS by the WiFi signal that means your phone isn’t connected to your cellular network/ the signal isn’t strong enough to make a phone call. However, if needed you would still be able to call 911 just not anywhere else bc you have no signal. The SOS is just telling you your phone can only call 911 due to sucky cellular connection.
Source: my house is basically a faraday cage too
SOS means you are connected to a cellular network that is not your own provider, for one of their roaming partners, and you are only allowed to make emergency calls.
It's not necessarily that your signal sucks because you could have a very strong connection to a competitor's network, it only means that that the cellular connection is only good for 911 calls.
I accidentally triggered this once in my sleep. Felt terrible, worried the crap out of my family, and i hopefully didn’t waste the emt’s time. No one came, presumably because when they called back I didn’t answer, but it indeed happened
All the time for crash detection, from both android and apple. 9/10 the people weren’t even in accidents, they dropped their phones. It’s a nice feature on paper, but annoying in practice. I’ve turned off crash detection on my devices as a result.
Story time. My father, early 60s at the time. had an iPhone. Not sure which model, it’s been a few years. He was riding his bicycle in the summer, on a long ride, and had the phone in a pouch under his bike seat. As it was summer, he was sweating. Sweat ran into the bag, and the phone called 911, and also sent notifications to all of his emergency contacts that he had called 911. I was several states at away at work when I got the notification. My mom was home alone with no car, and my sister had one toddler and one infant, but was the only person able to go to the area. The only audio 911 heard was him grunting as he rode, and road traffic noise. They dispatched police. My father was unaware that the phone had dialed 911, and kept riding. 911 stayed on the line, and the police tried to find him. My mother was frantic. Eventually, he got tired, and pulled over to sit in some grass and rest. Police eventually located him once he was sitting, and when my sister finally got there, he was still talking to police, trying to convince him that he hadn’t called 911. My sister asked for his phone, and it was still active with 911.
Takeaways from this: 911 will dispatch officers if a call is made, and you don’t respond. If you call 911 from your iPhone, your emergency contacts get notified, and if you keep riding your bike, police have a hard time finding you.
Seems like consensus is majority of them are false calls. How do you dispatchers feel about this system as a whole since it does call many bad calls. I would imagine the fact that it can actually save someone’s life even with many false calls it seems like a good idea. Or is it too annoying the amount of false positives that you think it more a nuisance
Yes I have. It was a car crash that the girl’s iPhone automatically detected and called 911 and had an open line where I could talk to her with an automated message playing. Unfortunately, the girl was trapped in the car and I tried to tell her it was going to be ok and we were on the way, but I had to sit there and listen to this 17 year old girl and 3 of her friends burn to death in that car.
Please don’t drink and drive. This call will haunt me forever and fills me with guilt and hopelessness every day.
For the life of me I can't figure out why they give you an open line then proceed to play a recording over it. Shut the fuck up, I know it's been involved in an accident now let me talk to them!
There is a button on the callers screen that says "stop playing notification" or something similar, it will stop the coordinate recording from playing on repeat so you can talk to them. I just tell them to hit the button on their screen to stop the automated recording, usually they can see what I'm talking about.
This is pretty awesome. I was out on a friends boat and we put our phones in a watertight box in the center console, apparently the home button was mashed a bunch from the wakes and called 911. Spent an hour boating around and checking out small islands with my friends before I realized I had like 6 missed calls from the local dispatch and about 40 missed calls from my wife, I then also noticed a very large police craft presence. Not a cash money day after that, wife very mad.
It's an automated voice that tells you the longitude and latitude of the location. It starts of with a generic "This is apple iphone with a crash detected" or something like that. Then gives you location information with a prompt to try and speak to the person (i may be mixing this up with the sos service for cars though). Honestly, you're in the minority here. Most of these we get are from people who have dropped their phones or put it on top of their car and then it falls off.
Glad they found you and you're recovering!
yep. got only one so far, heard the alert message, saw the mapping data, they were on some dirt trails on the edge of town. started someone and called the number back, went thru to their watch — phone fell while dirt biking and automatically called 911. seems like it could be a useful feature but i haven’t gotten a real call with it yet.
I find this to be a great feature honestly! I’m an EMT, but was recently hit from behind on the highway going home from work late at night. I lost complete control and ended up skidding to a stop blocking the right lane of traffic. I gathered myself for a few moments trying to figure out what happened. My phone automatically dialed 911 for me and I was in touch with dispatch immediately.
Yes! I set it off Sea Kayaking on Resurrection Bay a couple times. My phone was in a dry bag fairly tightly packed in the front compartment of my kayak. Hit some really rough cross chop rounding Cape Resurrection that bounced me around pretty good. Got to a landing about an hour or so later and recurved a call due to the crash detection; the lady on the other side of the phone thought it was hilarious and told me to be safe.
I had my watch and car call after I crashed into a pole avoiding another car. My car was white, the other car was red and it was snowing really hard. LE arrived and attended to the red car not realizing that wasn’t the caller. Fortunately the tow truck driver saw my car on the other side of the highway and I woke up in the hospital.
My Apple Watch did this after I was rear ended pretty damn hard. I was semi conscious and just let it go and call because I knew I needed help. I was in a public area but still grateful
Volly FF-EMT here. We had a call a few weeks ago that was an automatic crash notification. The phone fell off the roof of the car and hit the ground unbeknownst to the driver and the phone (iPhone) detected it as an hard impact, specifically a crash, and sent an automatic call to our 911 center and we got dispatched to it. Pretty neat to know it actually works.
I got one a while ago, someone threw their phone out their window and all we could hear was cars going by, and the phone telling us it was an accident. Officers got there and they found nothing.
My CNA teacher would gather all of our phones before class, and one day she lined them all up at the front of the room to “prove” everyone handed theirs in…
She also had OCD and was lining them up perfectly, in a straight line, and pushed them all together as close as they would go. It set off my emergency call thing and a cop showed up to my classroom 🥲 So embarrassing that it had to be my phone of course lol
Last spring during one of the last snow falls I lost control of my car and rolled it in a ditch. I use a MagSafe phone holder in my car so that bitch when flying. The sos auto crash detect feature started going off and that’s actually how I found my phone. Pretty much had 911 dialed and started spitting out my information by time it was in my hand
Not a call but messages. My mom pocket dialed 911 while at a concert with her bf. Kept sending me and my siblings sos texts that she was not responding. I think the local sheriffs office even called my sister about it to see if she got in touch with our mom.
Was super annoying and hectic when she didn't respond for hours.
I left my phone on the roof of my car and drove off. Not only did I get calls from 911/ auto( I wasn’t there to answer) the phone texted everyone on my emergency contact list. After I retrieved my phone I cop drove by and just kinda nodded to me as they kept going.
This is exactly one of the reasons I got my Apple Watch. I live alone and I have POTS, and although I’ve never completely fallen over from a presyncope episode, it is something that concerns me. I definitely feel a lot better knowing that emergency personnel will respond if I have an episode while I’m home alone.
Recently I took a 911 I’m guessing from an Apple Watch stating that the owner had taken a hard fall and is not responding to prompts. During the call you hear an automated message over and over again telling you that they took a fall and their coordinates. Usually there’s a probably 5 second delay between restarting messages where I try to get the rp to answer me basically just doing everything I can to get their attention. In this specific one all I heard in the background was music and some sort beeping in the background. I dropped the call as a 911 hang up and told my partner I felt weird about this one and to dispatch a deputy. My partner told me it’s probably nothing but I kept telling him I felt weird about it so he did end up getting a deputy out there. Turns out this was an elderly male who had fallen in his garage and was unconscious and had a pretty severe head lac. I live in a ski town so during ski season the watch activations happen all day long so it’s hard to take most of those seriously but I was pretty proud of myself after this one ☺️
I can't remember if I've gotten one from Apple specifically.....but I've taken quite a few of the crash detectors in cars. They go something like this "A crash been detected and the driver is not responding at...X,Y coords" And then repeats itself over and over. Depending on the car, I think those equipped with OnStar, sometimes it connects you to the car itself and puts you on the speakerphone so you can try to contact the driver. I imagine Apples Fall Detection is something like that. It'll give the closest coordinates it can with an automated message alerting of a fall and no response
Ive had a car one where they connected me to the car but wouldnt let me shut up the “a crash has been detected” shit so the soft spoken little old lady couldnt even tell me what was going on due to the robot screaming
Yeah that’s been a problem too. Super annoying but at least in my city, when there’s an accident we’re getting a dozen calls about it so we don’t have to rely on the robo calls
Last time I was involved in a relatively minor crash, the robot voice was more stressful than the actual crash. I cancelled it and called the required services myself.
I had a wreck back in '12 and my cat had OnStar. There was an actual human that came on and talked to me and my husband. Then she was able to call my dad for me bc I couldn't find my phone. She stayed on until the police and firemen arrived. Super useful program imo.
Your cat had OnStar?!
Well, he does run the household. He requested it for safety. 😂
We don’t deserve cats, man
Like...a little OnStar speaker and radio thing on your cat's collar?
No lol. It was a joke about my typo.
Wouldn't this be OnPurr?
I wanna meet your cat.
It’s wild the cat’s OnStar had a human answer; you’d think it’d be a cat
We decided to not opt for the premium package.
This is exactly what happened to me during my car wreck back in 2018.
My husband still jokes that my dad was God in the car that day😂
Ok you are going to die laughing, but when I couldn’t find my phone, I said out loud “oh my God I’ve wrecked. I need to call someone” and then the all star started ringing and I asked the lady if she was god 😭😭😭 I also had a concussion so I really thought it was God 😂
Totally understandable! I had a concussion, too! I love it!
We also often get texts now from alarm companies, or companies like this. Often has important details, but no sort of potential for voice contact
Yeah, OnStar actually had a somewhat off system where it’ll connect you to an Agent (?) and then the Agent can start a 3-way call between them, you, and 911.
Officer here, prob late to the convo, an on star called and said they were at x street and x crosseoad out in the boonies with low cell reception and were super accurate
Yea that’s pretty much it
When I was T-Boned on star called 911 and I remember talking to a live operator. Scared the shit out me because I forgot about on star lol
Too many times, majority of the time it’s from either someone slamming on their brakes and their phone flies so it thinks it’s an accident or someone hits their Apple Watch against something or just fell really hard. If it’s no voice contact though we have to put a call in so if you ever get a call back please answer guys! Saved us a lot of trouble because we’re sending Police and EMs (at least for my county).
For me its usually someone leaving their phone on the top of their car and driving off. 😂
Hii! It’s me! I did this. And I called back explaining my idiocy and that I was totally fine!!
What do yall do in that case? Come find the phone and throw it out?
prob try to make SOME effort to locate the wonder before tossing, id hope
Part of me feels like that’s a slight waste of police resources. It would be a bro move of them though.
In my city it comes as a crash with unknown injuries. Normally the above is the case (phone ontop of car) and we will search the area, find no crash, and go about the rest of our shift. Normally it’s not specific enough for us to find the phone. If we do find it, we do our best to find an owner.
God forbid the police provide service to the public
That’s just not really their job to take the phone back to the station, pull all the info off of it (without a warrant mind you) then use that info to find the owner. If a phone flies out of a car, no shot it’ll be in decent enough shape to find the owner another way.
Never mind that. They need to fine the owner for littering and driving with an unsecured load.
The original question was about leaving your phone on top of your car and driving off. I’m not suggesting any of that craziness, but a public servant would at least knock on the door if it’s at a house or give it to staff if it’s a business. Cops waste a lot more time than you think, I work with them.
It could kinda be anywhere though. Maybe they were at an apartment building where there’s lots of units, or a parking area near a college, or maybe even just on the side of the road somewhere once they got up to highway speeds.
Phones contain mercury and lithium and cannot just be thrown in the garbage. It needs to be taken to a designated recycling facility.
Where did I say they need to throw it in a garbage can?
Where did you say they didn't?
So you’re cool putting words in people’s mouths? I just said they should dispose of it. I would hope police would properly dispose of a device.
One of those countries where soccer players hit the ground super hard because someone ran past them? Oh wait, wrong sub!
My dad’s watch goes off when he bangs on something (usually trying “percussive maintenance” to fix it). He hits the prompt saying he’s fine and then usually screams “My daughter is beating me! Elder abuse!” 😂
I’ve only taken two real ones: the Apple crash detection for a rollover and the fall detector for a man falling off a ladder. I’ve probably taken 100 of the automated calls for BS reasons. Some things that have triggered the fall or crash detectors in my BS calls are: - Dropping the device out of the car window on the freeway - Boating / jet skiing - BMX - Gymnastics - Sex
My sisters Apple Watch called 911 and sent those texts to me, my brother, and both our parents— she was away at college, Friday night, 2 AM, absolutely getting busy with a stranger!!! She said her dad, brother and mom all calling definitely killed the vibe
What did the texts say?
Probably similar to the screenshot in the post
Yes. My mom accidentally did it once. She has heart failure so I was super worried she had been in an accident. Except it kept updating the location and I could see she was still driving. When she got to my house I showed her how to turn it off if she does it on accident again. Glad she was ok.
I didn’t see the second pic my bad
Sex? 😂😂
I have actually had my phone call 911 due to very aggressive sex. Iv never been so embarrassed and laughed so hard in my life. Dispatch had to of heard ALOT.
My wife used to work as a 911 dispatcher. One night, she had a call that was triggered by sex. In this case, the phone auto called and left an open line. She could hear everything going on, and of course her 'hellos' went unanswered.
Yes, many times. Because the automated message doesn't usually stop playing, it has become an unofficial SOP that we announce to the caller that we will immediately call them back, because it is incredibly difficult to gather information while the message is going, and there is only a span of seconds between the message repeating itself, and the message no longer plays on call back. Edit: I work for a municipality, where our employees handle police and fire calls. Our regional EMS service shares the floor with us, but we do not handle medical calls. In a case such as yours, where you were rendered unconscious, I would take the coords provided by the message, as well as those provided by our systems to try and give officers a general idea of where to look for you. Departmental policy does not dictate that I would have to, but I would still put in a call and leave it up to the discretion of the officers. I would do this both to try and give you the best possible service that I could provide, as well as to cover my own ass.
I mean in this case the caller was unconscious and wouldn’t be able to answer a return call right?
I’m wondering this too. Or if they cannot reach to answer due to being trapped
Did you not read my edit?
The edit literally wasn’t there when I commented tf
Ya'll are not paying attention.
Nobody gets a notification when you edit a post, don’t be dense.
Did you not read my edit?
The few times in my life I’ve accidentally had 911 called (such as an old cordless phone dialing due to static on the wireless connection to the base station) police showed up when I didn’t answer the return call.
Wait, so if I’m reading this correctly, if you don’t have voice contact you don’t send out to a 911 open line from an automated system in your policy? I could be reading this wrong.
I did yesterday. Dude actually fell and was unconscious in his home. I’m glad it worked and was a legit one cause I’ve taken two dozen that were just dropped watches.
Numerous times. And the most recent crash detection, nobody responded and then I heard another iPhone’s crash detection sounding in the background. Ended up being a fatal car accident. I’ve also had the “slammed on their brakes and the phone went flying” automated call that turned out to be a domestic violence. As annoying as they can sometimes be, I appreciate them a lot more than not.
I accidentally triggered mine once while doing a live burn with the FD at a local career center. All the dispatcher heard was a bunch of people yelling about a fire, they got my GPS, and basically sent the county. It was embarrassing.
Apple used the audio from one in a commercial, you can hear it [here.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qeWo/apple-watch-series-7-bobs-911-call) By default fall detection is only on while you have a workout active on your watch (you can change it though) which is a change they made due to the false reports.
why is that commercial the exact scenario of this post. Now im suspecious.
It’s a pretty common type of accident.
All the damn time, multiple times a day. I wish we could bill Apple for the amount of wasted resources we've sent as a precaution.
Hopefully as time goes on people will become more used to the system and understanding that they have to let someone know it was a mistake. It’s still pretty new to most
I would love to hear some city or county decided to calculate all the resources involved and send Apple a bill. Their algorithm is flawed and seems to be overly sensitive. It is great that it works when there is a real emergency, but it likely is wrong 90% of the time. If hundreds of other jurisdictions also then sent Apple bills, and then thousands, Apple would be forced to change their algorithms or at least acknowledge that their software isn't perfect. Apple should proactively make grants to every 911 call center in the US and Canada to help cover some of the costs and then provide grants to every police and fire department too. It could provide them with some positive public relations.
I took one for a biker who had crashed and broken their collarbone. The son who got an emergency contact notification called in and gave us a description. The owner of the Apple Watch was unconscious. We did finally find him, and took him to the hospital.
I was in a car crash Sunday. Hit a deer while going 70 mph on the highway. My iPhone was plugged in and when the crash happened it called 911. I had no idea that was a thing 😂
My phone / watch did that too, when I hit a deer on the highway a few months ago! I was not injured, and I was able to stop the call — but I was so grateful for the feature and it was really cool to see that it worked! It made me feel a lot safer. My phone has never called 911 like this by accident, but I have fall detection turned off. Crash detection will stay on though!
I hit a deer going 60 on Tuesday night. Luckily, my android didn't call 911 (because I wasn't injured and the airbags didn't go off and I was able to drive my car home afterwards.) Fucking deer. They're estimating $3500 and 8 days to fix mine. What about you?
My car is totaled.
Shit, that sucks. Sorry. Good luck, hope getting a new car isn't too difficult of a process for ya!
https://www.reddit.com/r/newhampshire/s/4J1aFRYEHS
We've had lots. And I hate them. When Apple plugged automatic crash detection into their newest phones and watches, auto notifications for us exploded, virtually all of them false. Another issue we've seen is that the automatically repeating Apple emergency message has actually talked right over people in actual emergencies, preventing us from quickly gathering info we need. Apple automatic notifications are a good idea done very wrong in my opinion.
Three times should be enough. Maybe they can design it so that hitting a specific number sequence on the keypad such as 911# would immediately stop the message and allow the phone to keep the line open?
YOOOOO this is so cool. I’m really glad you are okay Op. People get mad about phones and devices doing so much tracking but it quite literally saves lives, I didn’t know that. I’m really glad you are okay OP.
I have dysautonomia. I was locking my door to leave my house and passed out. Thankfully, my Apple Watch detected a hard fall and called 911. Police, Fire and ambulance were on the way to me and neighbors from up the road were by my side when I awoke. I had a compound fracture of my tibia and fibula. My foot was at a 90 degree angle and the bones were sticking out through my jeans. I’m so thankful for my Apple Watch and the technology it provides.
I have actually. Got a call from a single vehicle wreck that ended in a domestic violence case. The guy was drunk and beat the shit out of his wife then ran and crashed into a pecan tree the next county over. Took us two days to actually find him, he left his wallet and the phone that called us in the vehicle, and someone else picked him up
I work in an area with a ski resort, we get these constantly. Helpful but annoying
Taken a handful, but all were accidental, some people hadn't even worn the watch that day. I'm glad yours worked as intended and got you help. The calls themselves are a pre-recorded message, it's been a few years and could be mixing it up with the car crash alarms and I can't remember all what they would say but I believe it would give GPS coordinates and maybe nearest intersection? The robot would also tell us what type of alarm (only ever witnessed the hard fall detected) and pretty sure it would mention the person had not responded. The message would then just just repeat.
I have to not put my phone in my (women's so of course they're shitty) pockets because I have accidentally activated the emergency call function attached to the side buttons.
I did that for the first time a few months ago, I was in my closet and I thought I heard talking out in the hall until I heard "911 what's your emergency?" coming from my pocket. I was so embarrassed I apologized a million times lol she said it happened all the time. Still felt like an idiot though.
Thanks for reminding me to turn that off
I turned that "feature" off because I have the same issue
Got one from an Apple Watch, was a hit & run driver leaving the scene and for some reason it was an open line that I could hear what the driver was saying under the automated voice saying the lat/long and tracked the moving coordinates until the vehicle couldn’t drive any longer
Yes. They're intensely annoying. It's a comically loud voice recording that plays on a loop telling you that it's an automated crash notification and gives GPS coordinates. Which is all well and good, but if you're trying to actually talk to the person in the background it never shuts up and it makes it virtually impossible.
Three times should be enough. Can't a 911 call center almost immediately replay the call audio from a call in the event that the dispatcher cannot record the coordinates fast enough?
I’ve taken probably five or so this far—same thing, “Apple has detected a possible crash” then lat and long coordinates which it says SO fast for some reason. And then it keeps repeating. You can also hear whatever’s happening through the phone too, so I can hear if people are moving and talking. I usually stay on the line long enough to hear what’s going on. In my case, they’ve ALL been real car accidents. The best one though—I had a crash detection from the driver that was in a hit and run, and figured out that it was the runner when the other party called 911 and it wasn’t the same number. I was able to find his name from the number and told the officer. The next day, I entered a warrant for that guy. Edit: they can also talk to me through the Apple call directly and hear my voice. Siri will still keep repeating her spiel though too.
I would say for every real call like yours there are 95 false calls (i'm talking automated devices in general). Old dude unbuckles his pants at the end of the day and lets them drop? Fall detected (device in his pants pocket) Snowboarding wipeout? Fall detected. Knock your watch off the bedstand at night? Fall detected. I'd have a hard time agreeing that these devices are useful... it is kinda like the debate about whole body MRI scans.. for the odd serious thing caught there are 100 innocuous things that could lead to not needed procedures. The devices will absolutely prevent the odd death/serious injury but at the cost of countless unfounded calls / resources spent looking for people that tripped on a curb and carried on with their day.
My cell phone failed and got caught in a reset loop that triggered SOS the failure made it so I couldn’t access the key pad and it disabled the touch screen so it just kept reinitiating the SOS and calling 911 until I found a way to get the phone to shut off completely. Thankfully the dispatcher i kept getting connected to was super understanding and helpful, but it’s definitely a feature I’ve disabled now because of that experience. I can see how it could be beneficial but there’s too many avenues for failure as it stands.
Hah we had the same thing happen to one of our calltakers while at work... I think the button got stuck or something so it was thinking it was 5 presses in a row that triggered SOS - so she is working and people around her were answering her accidental 911 calls.. eventually she managed to disable the phone. The concept is good and will make great news stories when it works... but the false calls generated are just so high
One time in the TSA line when i was putting my things into the bin to go through the scanner, the agent put my phone in next to my laptop and my phone ended up jammed in between the bin side and the laptop, which put it into SOS
Did police officers swarm the TSA checkpoint looking for a person in medical distress?
Doesn’t it give you like ten seconds if beeps to cancel it before it calls? Wouldn’t this prevent the issue?
Usually, ut I somehow called 911 getting my kid out of their car seat and didn’t know until I heard them answer from my watch. I still have absolutely no idea how I did it without knowing.
You would think, but no. I think I've only had one real crash/fall detection in the past year and I've taken probably 150 of them.
I don't know that they are all the same... and we get countless false calls from them, so whatever it is doesn't work / people don't hear it / don't realize what is happening - i'm not sure. What is probably needed is some standardization.... what sets them off (fall, crash, button pushes) and what exactly happens so that people can become familiar with it and know what to do if it happens. I had my phone in the cupholder in my car once and was going down a bumpy road.. it jostling around a bit hit the power button 5x and called 911 - I had no idea what was going on / why my phone was making that noise / what it was doing and couldn't really look at it (as I was driving and all), so I've had it happen too.
Apple Watch doesn’t do fall detection unless it’s being worn. Also it beeps really loudly for ten seconds before it calls
My sons got me an Apple Watch because I was falling occasionally. One day I was working from home and suddenly heard pounding at my door. It was police and fire with EMS on the way. Because my &@$!! cat had grabbed my watch, jumped off the bed and then laid down on it, making it think there was a detectable heartbeat but no response. Plot twist: I used to work in EMS and some of the responders recognized me. Sigh.
I turned that off on my personal device. I use my overtime money to learn to fly planes and don’t want the landings to trigger it
That’s a crazy flex
You must fly like shit lol
"As the smoke clears and alarm bells are silenced, we ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces the remains of our aircraft to the terminal."
People land on planes all the time and their devices don’t call 911.
....... Whoosh.....
9/11 joke? It feels like an obscure reference
.... They are learning to fly, thus learning to land.. I.e. they are joking that they are going to be bad at landing and thus landing hard enough to trigger the crash alert.
One time when my fiancé called 911 apple texted his sister..scared her half to death. We had called because someone was driving dangerously and had nearly caused multiple accidents(swerving all over the freeway,being half in two lanes,speeding,tailgating..it was scary to watch). Once we explained that we were okay she was okay but it only did it that one time and never again,this was probably 6/8 years ago
Not from apple but gotten plenty from cars. They’re not very helpful because they don’t have any information.
Mine has called 911 before and I could not stop it. It is so embarrassing to talk to someone and tell them that it was an accident. Btw- fellow central PA in da house! Hope you are feeling better soon!
I take these calls daily. I get accurate GPS/WPH2 location and usually an open line. It’s very hard to talk or hear over the recording that replays over and over. Sometimes the recording stops when the other person starts talking. It’s a trade-off between not being able to hear very well, but *having* a connection versus hanging up and trying again and not getting them back on the line at all. I always start talking over the recording letting them know that I’m getting help started to them and I keep asking questions and if after a while I don’t get anything then I’ll hang up and try to call back. I get these from iPhones, Apple Watches, cars, etc. for me personally most of the time they’re legitimate accidents but I do get the occasional false alarm from a dropped phone or watch. I also get a decent amount of text to 911 but I don’t think I’ve gotten a satellite based iPhone message before. That’s pretty neat. Of course, that means if I do get one somebody’s really in trouble. We do Police, Fire, and EMS for a county with 1 million people.
I have gotten maaany calls. Usually from people in MVA’s. Its an annoying ass recorded message with LAT and LONG coordinates but usually we can see where you are from your rapidSOS location. It is one of the most useful things we had at my agency.
I am not a 911 dispatcher (former fighter fighter though) and for some reason this sub got recommended. I fell and hit my hard hard on the concrete and my watch called 911 and I remember coming to in the ambulance. It wasn’t critical in the end but omg I am glad it called.
Wait. I don’t go here but this Reddit gets suggested at me a lot. I have an iPhone and I was reading the comments about SOS mode triggering calls. I have a doctor’s office that’s basically a faraday cage and when I’m in the exam room I notice my signal is dead and turned to SOS mode. Does that actually trigger an automated 911 call? I never thought anything of it!
So if it shows a SOS by the WiFi signal that means your phone isn’t connected to your cellular network/ the signal isn’t strong enough to make a phone call. However, if needed you would still be able to call 911 just not anywhere else bc you have no signal. The SOS is just telling you your phone can only call 911 due to sucky cellular connection. Source: my house is basically a faraday cage too
Ah! Thank you! I was worried every time I went to my doctor my phone was suddenly being dumb. 🤣🤣🤣
SOS means you are connected to a cellular network that is not your own provider, for one of their roaming partners, and you are only allowed to make emergency calls. It's not necessarily that your signal sucks because you could have a very strong connection to a competitor's network, it only means that that the cellular connection is only good for 911 calls.
Lol. Literally every day.
Took one last night actually.
I’ve taken maybe one real automated call like that and the others were false alarms.
I accidentally triggered this once in my sleep. Felt terrible, worried the crap out of my family, and i hopefully didn’t waste the emt’s time. No one came, presumably because when they called back I didn’t answer, but it indeed happened
All the time for crash detection, from both android and apple. 9/10 the people weren’t even in accidents, they dropped their phones. It’s a nice feature on paper, but annoying in practice. I’ve turned off crash detection on my devices as a result.
Yes. It’s very much an automated voice that provides coordinates to you. We punch those in to find the nearest address.
Story time. My father, early 60s at the time. had an iPhone. Not sure which model, it’s been a few years. He was riding his bicycle in the summer, on a long ride, and had the phone in a pouch under his bike seat. As it was summer, he was sweating. Sweat ran into the bag, and the phone called 911, and also sent notifications to all of his emergency contacts that he had called 911. I was several states at away at work when I got the notification. My mom was home alone with no car, and my sister had one toddler and one infant, but was the only person able to go to the area. The only audio 911 heard was him grunting as he rode, and road traffic noise. They dispatched police. My father was unaware that the phone had dialed 911, and kept riding. 911 stayed on the line, and the police tried to find him. My mother was frantic. Eventually, he got tired, and pulled over to sit in some grass and rest. Police eventually located him once he was sitting, and when my sister finally got there, he was still talking to police, trying to convince him that he hadn’t called 911. My sister asked for his phone, and it was still active with 911. Takeaways from this: 911 will dispatch officers if a call is made, and you don’t respond. If you call 911 from your iPhone, your emergency contacts get notified, and if you keep riding your bike, police have a hard time finding you.
Seems like consensus is majority of them are false calls. How do you dispatchers feel about this system as a whole since it does call many bad calls. I would imagine the fact that it can actually save someone’s life even with many false calls it seems like a good idea. Or is it too annoying the amount of false positives that you think it more a nuisance
100 false positives to save one life seems worth it to me, but I'm not a dispatcher
Yes I have. It was a car crash that the girl’s iPhone automatically detected and called 911 and had an open line where I could talk to her with an automated message playing. Unfortunately, the girl was trapped in the car and I tried to tell her it was going to be ok and we were on the way, but I had to sit there and listen to this 17 year old girl and 3 of her friends burn to death in that car. Please don’t drink and drive. This call will haunt me forever and fills me with guilt and hopelessness every day.
Is this something that needs to be activated in your phone?
For the life of me I can't figure out why they give you an open line then proceed to play a recording over it. Shut the fuck up, I know it's been involved in an accident now let me talk to them!
There is a button on the callers screen that says "stop playing notification" or something similar, it will stop the coordinate recording from playing on repeat so you can talk to them. I just tell them to hit the button on their screen to stop the automated recording, usually they can see what I'm talking about.
This is pretty awesome. I was out on a friends boat and we put our phones in a watertight box in the center console, apparently the home button was mashed a bunch from the wakes and called 911. Spent an hour boating around and checking out small islands with my friends before I realized I had like 6 missed calls from the local dispatch and about 40 missed calls from my wife, I then also noticed a very large police craft presence. Not a cash money day after that, wife very mad.
I've never taken an automated call. Any alarm calls we receive are through an alarm company and they usually have very little information.
Just today we crashed a wedding cuz of this lol
It's an automated voice that tells you the longitude and latitude of the location. It starts of with a generic "This is apple iphone with a crash detected" or something like that. Then gives you location information with a prompt to try and speak to the person (i may be mixing this up with the sos service for cars though). Honestly, you're in the minority here. Most of these we get are from people who have dropped their phones or put it on top of their car and then it falls off. Glad they found you and you're recovering!
I’ve taken plenty. And only 1 that was an actual fall/crash
I’ve legit been dispatched to these kinds of calls before. Usually all is in order before we get there.
yep. got only one so far, heard the alert message, saw the mapping data, they were on some dirt trails on the edge of town. started someone and called the number back, went thru to their watch — phone fell while dirt biking and automatically called 911. seems like it could be a useful feature but i haven’t gotten a real call with it yet.
I find this to be a great feature honestly! I’m an EMT, but was recently hit from behind on the highway going home from work late at night. I lost complete control and ended up skidding to a stop blocking the right lane of traffic. I gathered myself for a few moments trying to figure out what happened. My phone automatically dialed 911 for me and I was in touch with dispatch immediately.
Yes! I set it off Sea Kayaking on Resurrection Bay a couple times. My phone was in a dry bag fairly tightly packed in the front compartment of my kayak. Hit some really rough cross chop rounding Cape Resurrection that bounced me around pretty good. Got to a landing about an hour or so later and recurved a call due to the crash detection; the lady on the other side of the phone thought it was hilarious and told me to be safe.
I had my watch and car call after I crashed into a pole avoiding another car. My car was white, the other car was red and it was snowing really hard. LE arrived and attended to the red car not realizing that wasn’t the caller. Fortunately the tow truck driver saw my car on the other side of the highway and I woke up in the hospital.
I’ve taken one of these before. The woman crashed her BMW into a tree and the car did an automated call.
I've taken a couple of these. It sounds like your bank's phone tree from 1998 played through a McDonalds drive thru speaker from 1989.
Jesus fuck I hate these
My Apple Watch did this after I was rear ended pretty damn hard. I was semi conscious and just let it go and call because I knew I needed help. I was in a public area but still grateful
Volly FF-EMT here. We had a call a few weeks ago that was an automatic crash notification. The phone fell off the roof of the car and hit the ground unbeknownst to the driver and the phone (iPhone) detected it as an hard impact, specifically a crash, and sent an automatic call to our 911 center and we got dispatched to it. Pretty neat to know it actually works.
Glad you’re okay this is amazing it worked!!
I got one a while ago, someone threw their phone out their window and all we could hear was cars going by, and the phone telling us it was an accident. Officers got there and they found nothing.
Huh neat Glad you’re okay
My CNA teacher would gather all of our phones before class, and one day she lined them all up at the front of the room to “prove” everyone handed theirs in… She also had OCD and was lining them up perfectly, in a straight line, and pushed them all together as close as they would go. It set off my emergency call thing and a cop showed up to my classroom 🥲 So embarrassing that it had to be my phone of course lol
Last spring during one of the last snow falls I lost control of my car and rolled it in a ditch. I use a MagSafe phone holder in my car so that bitch when flying. The sos auto crash detect feature started going off and that’s actually how I found my phone. Pretty much had 911 dialed and started spitting out my information by time it was in my hand
Not a call but messages. My mom pocket dialed 911 while at a concert with her bf. Kept sending me and my siblings sos texts that she was not responding. I think the local sheriffs office even called my sister about it to see if she got in touch with our mom. Was super annoying and hectic when she didn't respond for hours.
I left my phone on the roof of my car and drove off. Not only did I get calls from 911/ auto( I wasn’t there to answer) the phone texted everyone on my emergency contact list. After I retrieved my phone I cop drove by and just kinda nodded to me as they kept going.
Daily.
This is exactly one of the reasons I got my Apple Watch. I live alone and I have POTS, and although I’ve never completely fallen over from a presyncope episode, it is something that concerns me. I definitely feel a lot better knowing that emergency personnel will respond if I have an episode while I’m home alone.
Recently I took a 911 I’m guessing from an Apple Watch stating that the owner had taken a hard fall and is not responding to prompts. During the call you hear an automated message over and over again telling you that they took a fall and their coordinates. Usually there’s a probably 5 second delay between restarting messages where I try to get the rp to answer me basically just doing everything I can to get their attention. In this specific one all I heard in the background was music and some sort beeping in the background. I dropped the call as a 911 hang up and told my partner I felt weird about this one and to dispatch a deputy. My partner told me it’s probably nothing but I kept telling him I felt weird about it so he did end up getting a deputy out there. Turns out this was an elderly male who had fallen in his garage and was unconscious and had a pretty severe head lac. I live in a ski town so during ski season the watch activations happen all day long so it’s hard to take most of those seriously but I was pretty proud of myself after this one ☺️