Man’s Apple Watch Feature Saves His Life, Story Goes Viral
Have you heard of “hard fall”?
My apple watch has a heart rate monitor, which has also been known to help people, but this is a whole new ball game. Gabe’s father, Bob, was mountain biking when his bike flipped at the bottom of a hill called Doomsday in Washington state. He fell, hit his head and was unconscious. He had the emergency feature on his Apple Watch called “hard fall” activated.
Wearers must activate the feature, and it will detect when the wearer has taken a hard fall. The watch will tap the wearer on the wrist, but if the watch does not receive a response within one minute it will automatically call emergency services and notify your emergency contacts.
In this case, emergency services made it to Bob before his family did so the watch alerted the Gabe with an updated text that the wearer’s location had changed with a map pointing them to the hospital. Happy to report Bob is doing fine.
