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- Medhi Naitmazi
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Apple has broadcast a new advertisement on the networks called “911” which highlights the potential of the Apple Watch to save lives in emergencies. It is one of the characteristics of the watch that we see throughout the year through various stories.
A feature that saves the lives of many users every year
This somewhat special ad revolves around three invisible people, Amanda, Jason and Jim. Each of them was able to get help by dialing the infamous 911 numbers in the United States using their Apple Watch, with the ad highlighting snippets of their phone calls with dispatchers. Amanda, for example, said her car had rolled over and started to fill with water. The spot then turns to the case of a person who drifts towards the ocean, exhausted on his board, then another who broke his leg on a farm. The stories intersect with a certain tension.
Fortunately, the ad concludes that the three people were rescued within minutes. “These are just three of the many amazing stories where people have been able to get help using the Apple Watch.Apple wrote in the description of the video.
The ad suggests that buying an Apple Watch could save your life in tricky situations where you don’t have access to your iPhone by allowing you to dial or trigger the emergency call from your wrist. Apple Watch has an emergency call feature that lets you quickly contact local emergency services by holding down the side watch button and sliding your finger across the “SOS call” slider. emergency ”that appears on the screen. It’s the same thing on iPhone by the way by holding the buttons Power + Volume High.
It is important to note that if you have an Apple Watch without cellular connectivity, using the SOS feature will require either having an iPhone nearby or connecting the Apple Watch to a known Wi-Fi network and setting up. Wi-Fi calling.
Finally, in the same genre, Apple broadcast on Twitter another advertisement highlighting the fall detection function of the Apple Watch 7 with a person who has had a bicycle accident in the forest and who manages to call for help.
Bob B. was knocked unconscious mountain biking in the forest. His Apple Watch detected the hard fall and automatically called 911 with his location. The future of health is on your wrist.
– Apple (@Apple) December 20, 2021