iPhone 14 calls emergency services on rollercoasters due to crash safety feature - Sky News

The iPhone 14 has reportedly been automatically calling 911 connected rollercoasters owed to a diagnostic designed to alert authorities if the idiosyncratic is successful a car crash.

Police person been sent to amusement parks connected a fig of occasions arsenic a effect of the clang detection relation connected the caller model, according to a study successful the Wall Street Journal.

The iPhone 14, Watch Series 8, SE and Ultra person each been equipped with the feature.

If they observe a terrible car crash, they tin show an alert earlier contacting exigency services and notifying users' exigency contacts.

If the idiosyncratic does not disregard the alert wrong 20 seconds, exigency services telephone operators are past played an audio connection informing them astir the clang and are provided with a location.

The WSJ study featured details of 1 incidental successful which a 911 telephone was made from an iPhone user's handset portion they were connected a rollercoaster astatine Cincinnati's Kings Island amusement park.

In a recording, screams tin beryllium heard successful the inheritance portion the automated dependable connection is played.

The paper says six exigency calls person been caused by amusement parkland rides successful Warren County, wherever Kings Island is located, since the iPhone 14 was released.

It reports different users person experienced akin issues successful amusement parks crossed the country.

Those keen to debar the occupation tin enactment their telephone connected airplane mode, crook the diagnostic off, oregon simply not instrumentality it connected a rollercoaster.

Apple has been contacted for comment.