Employ fall detection with Apple Watch

If Apple Watch SE or Apple Watch Series four or later detects a hard fall, it can help connect you to the emergency services if needed.

Here'south how it works

If Apple Sentry SE or Apple tree Sentry Series four or later detects a hard autumn while yous're wearing your lookout man, information technology will tap you on the wrist, sound an alarm and display an alert. Y'all can choose to contact the emergency services or dismiss the warning past pressing the Digital Crown, borer Close in the acme left-hand corner or tapping 'I'm OK'.

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If your Apple Watch detects that you're moving, it volition wait for you to answer to the alert and won't call the emergency services automatically. If your spotter detects that y'all've been immobile for almost a infinitesimal, it will brand the call automatically.

After the call ends, your sentinel will send a bulletin to your emergency contacts with your location, letting them know that your lookout man detected a hard autumn and dialled the emergency services. Your watch gets your emergency contacts from your Medical ID.

Some countries and regions accept multiple emergency service numbers. For these countries, Apple Picket will telephone call the number associated with ambulance services.

How to make a telephone call

To phone call emergency services, elevate the Emergency SOS slider in the alert.

How to end a call

If you call the emergency services, you tin can terminate the call when your telephone call has finished or if y'all no longer demand emergency care:

  1. Tap the end call button.
  2. On the End Telephone call screen, tap Yes.

What happens if your Apple Watch detects that you're immobile

If your Apple tree Watch detects that you lot're immobile for about a minute, information technology begins a thirty-second countdown, while tapping y'all on the wrist and sounding an alert. The alert gets louder, so that you or someone nearby can hear information technology. If you don't want to phone call the emergency services, tap Cancel. When the countdown ends, your Apple Watch automatically contacts the emergency services.

When the call connects, your Apple Watch plays an audio message that informs the emergency services that your Apple Lookout detected a hard fall and and then it shares your current location as breadth and longitude coordinates. If you previously turned on the Share During Emergency Call setting under your Medical ID, your Medical ID volition likewise be shared automatically with the emergency services. The first time the bulletin plays, the audio volition be at full volume. Later this, the volume will be reduced so that you lot or someone nearby can talk to the responder. The message continues to play until y'all tap Finish Recorded Bulletin or the call ends.

Wrist Detection must exist turned on for your sentinel to automatically call the emergency services: open the Settings app on your Apple Scout, tap Passcode, then brand certain that Wrist Detection is turned on.

When are falls recorded

Falls are recorded in the Health app automatically, unless yous reply that you didn't autumn when your Apple Watch asks. To check your fall history, open the Health app on your iPhone, then tap the Browse tab. Tap Other Information, and then tap Number of Times Fallen.

An iPhone screen showing the option to turn on Fall Detection

Turn fall detection on or off

  1. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, then tap the My Watch tab.
  2. Tap Emergency SOS.
  3. Turn Autumn Detection on or off. If Autumn Detection is turned on, yous can select E'er on or Only on during workouts.

If you lot entered your age when you ready up your Apple Spotter or in the Health app, and yous're anile 55 and over, this feature turns on automatically. Make sure your correct age is displayed in your Medical ID and your Wellness Profile. Fall Detection is only available for those aged 18 or over.

Apple Scout cannot observe all falls. Your watch may detect high-impact activity as a fall and trigger fall detection.

An iPhone screen showing Medical ID information

Gear up your Medical ID and add emergency contacts

  1. Open up Settings on your iPhone, so tap Wellness > Medical ID.
  2. Tap Edit.
  3. Enter your date of birth and other wellness information.
  4. To add together an emergency contact, tap the add push button under emergency contacts. Tap a contact, and so add their relationship.
  5. To remove an emergency contact, tap the remove button side by side to the contact, and so tap Delete.
  6. To brand your Medical ID available from the Lock Screen, turn on Show When Locked. In an emergency, this gives information to people who want to help. To share your Medical ID with emergency responders, turn on Share During Emergency Call. When you make a phone call or send a text to the emergency services on your iPhone or Apple Watch, your Medical ID will exist shared with the emergency services automatically.*
  7. Tap Washed.

You can't set the emergency services as an emergency contact.

*Only available in the The states. Text-to-911 may non be available in all areas. When you call or text the emergency services, your location and encrypted Medical ID data will be sent to Apple. Your location will be used to determine whether Enhanced Emergency Data service is supported in your expanse. If it'south supported, Apple will forward your information to a partner for commitment to the emergency services. Apple cannot read your Medical ID information. If you turn off "Emergency Calls & SOS" under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Organisation Services, this cheque cannot be performed and Medical ID data will not exist shared.

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