Steven Spielberg and his strange experience with the Apple Watch

The director has a funny anecdote about the fall detection feature

Steven Spielberg is immersed in a new stage of his career as a director. After the return of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, he returned to direct a film in the Transformers saga and produced “The Lords of the Air” for Apple TV+. NOW He will continue to work on big projects, as long as his Apple Watch allows him, of course.

The legendary American filmmaker He had an embarrassing moment because of his Apple Watch while giving a talk at the Tribeca Film Festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his film ‘Loca Evasión’, as reported by Variety.

Apple seems concerned about Steven Spielberg’s health. So much that your Apple Watch sent you an alert notification without anything having happened. The director ignored the warning…and ended up making a mistake.

The funny anecdote about Steven Spielberg and his Apple Watch

The director of major Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and War of the Worlds was in a Q&A session at the Tribeca Festival when, suddenly, his Apple Watch sent him a notification.

It was about an Apple Watch fall detection notice

. But Steven Spielberg had not fallen. He was simply giving a lecture. Perhaps he overextended his hands with gestures in the air while explaining himself or perhaps he imitated an action scene from his films. Regardless, his reaction to the false alarm was curious.

The filmmaker was in conversation then decided to ignore the Apple Watch notification and instead of canceling the notification, he took off the watch and dropped it on the floor.

I’m not going to press the SOS emergency but ton. Then I’ll get it back.

However, what Steven Spielberg may not have known is that if you decide to ignore a fall detection notification from the Apple Watch the system interprets that you are in a risky situation –fainting, immobility, loss of consciousness…– and the countdown begins before an alarm sounds.

So there was the director, in front of his audience, in full conversation, and his Apple Watch on the floor rings an incessant alarm before placing an automated call to emergency services.

Steven Spielberg reacts to his Apple Watch going off during a Q&A session at #Tribeca2024 pic.twitter.com/bD8TFgq4Gu

– Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) June 15, 2024

Steven Spielberg rushed to get his Apple Watch and turn off the alarm. It would have been surreal to see the paramedics arrive and see Steven Spielberg giving a lecture as if nothing had happened.

After the arrival of multiple health functions such as fall detection, accident detection or SOS emergency messages on the iPhone and Apple Watch, there have been numerous false alerts to emergency services . In Japan there were recordings more than 100 fake ads in just one week. Apple continues to work to reduce the number of errors in these types of alerts on Apple Watch.

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