The Apple Watch isn’t the only life-saving Apple device… now the iPhone 14 too!
The presentation of the new iPhone 14 range revealed nice surprises such as satellite emergency calls and the function of accident detection. Two innovations clearly focused on saving lives.
From Apple, they are thrilled to know that their latest generations of Apple Watch are capable of saving the lives of their users with their health monitoring and fall detection features and they wanted to extrapolate these features to their new ones. iPhone 14 models.
A woman recently had a serious car accident and her husband managed to locate her using the iPhone 14’s crash detection feature. This was explained by a user by the name “unclescorpion” on Reddit after what happened.
Accident detection saves woman’s life after serious accident
Apparently, the woman could not alert the emergency services or her husband because she was unable to work. But the crash detection feature took care of everything. It not only automatically notified the emergency services, but also sent a notice to her husband about the accident and pointing up Exact location.
“Earlier today I was talking on the phone with my wife as she was driving home from the store, I heard her scream and the line went dead.”
The man mentioned that after the passage of a few seconds received a notification Sent from his wife’s iPhone indicating that he had been in a car accident and showing his location. From what happened, he rushed to the scene and arrived even before the ambulance.
He also wanted to verify that a distracted driver had crossed the line of the road and crashed into his wife’s vehicle. Luckily, The two people affected by the accident are well and are currently being recovered.
For this reason, it is extremely important to configure emergency contacts on the iPhone in order to avoid unexpected scares or, simply, to have extraordinary help in this type of emergency.
This isn’t the first time this feature has saved an Apple user’s life.. Without going any further, a few months ago, an Apple Watch user was able to alert the emergency services with accident detection after suffering a collision with his car after one of its tires burst.