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Apple crash and fall tech inundating 911 dispatchers with automated calls, reports say - Fox News

Apple crash and fall tech inundating 911 dispatchers with automated calls, reports say - Fox News

Apple crash and fall tech inundating 911 dispatchers with automated calls, reports say - Fox News
Feb 04, 2023 43 secs

In Oregon and Idaho, KATU said that local agencies had reported unintentional 911 calls on Mount Hood and Schweitzer Mountain.

Last December, The Colorado Sun reported that at least five counties in the state had been receiving a record number of automated calls from skiers' Apple products.

We are seeing as many as 20 a day and it’s a tremendous drain on our resources," Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons told the publication.

Attendees examine a brand new iPhone 14 Pro during an Apple special event on September 7, 2022, in Cupertino, California.

"We have been aware that in some specific scenarios these features have triggered emergency services when a user didn’t experience a severe car crash or hard fall," Alex Kirschner, an Apple spokesman, said.

It is designed to detect severe car crashes, and automatically calls emergency services after a 20-second delay if the owner is unable to respond.

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