The Apple Watch’s fall detection characteristic got here to the rescue for a person in Georgia, in response to a brand new report from Fox5 Atlanta. Mike Menand was on a hike within the Chattahoochee River Nationwide Recreation Space earlier this 12 months when his two canine noticed a coyote within the distance, main Menand to undergo a near-fatal fall.

“They acquired spooked and knocked me down and dragged me off the path,” Menand mentioned, referring to what occurred when his canine noticed the coyote. This triggered his Apple Watch’s fall detection characteristic, which kicked in to name emergency providers on his behalf.

“I couldn’t even get to the cellphone as a result of my cellphone was in my pocket, which I used to be mendacity on,” Menand mentioned. He suffered a damaged leg within the accident and had a titanium rod put in his leg throughout surgical procedure.

Menand mentioned that he isn’t positive what would’ve occurred if he wasn’t carrying an Apple Watch. “There’s no telling how lengthy I’d’ve been laying there,” he recalled. “I spotted I couldn’t transfer, I couldn’t stand up. I used to be in plenty of ache.”

The truth is, only a month after Menand suffered his fall, a lady fell whereas climbing in the identical park and didn’t survive. “After I learn that, I believed that might’ve been me,” Menand mentioned. “As a result of I used to be on my own, nobody round me, nobody actually knew the place I used to be.”

Fall detection works by intelligently detecting when a sudden fall happens, routinely calling emergency providers if the individual doesn’t dismiss the alert inside one minute of falling. If the individual’s emergency contact data is stuffed out, that contact can be notified with a textual content message and a map of the watch’s location on the time of the autumn.

You’ll be able to be taught extra about how fall detection works and find out how to allow it in your Apple Watch in our full information.