iPhone 14 car crash detection is now being triggered by people skiing - SiliconANGLE News

Apple Inc.’s iPhone 14 clang detection diagnostic is falsely reporting car crashes again, this clip by radical skiing.

In October, it was reported that exigency services workers were being called to the Kings Island amusement parkland successful Ohio erstwhile iPhone 14 users were connected rollercoasters and akin mendacious alerts were besides triggered astatine different parkland adjacent Chicago. Forward to skis play and the aforesaid happening is happening connected the skis fields successful Colorado.

According to the Colorado Sun, dispatchers astatine the Summit Country 911 Center fielded 71 automated clang notifications from the phones of skiers astatine the county’s 4 skis areas past week. None of them progressive an emergency.

Because each 911 exigency notifications are investigated, each mendacious notification took clip to benignant out. The operations halfway would effort to interaction the skier and if the telephone was not answered, a peculiar operations lawman contacted skis patrollers to cheque the determination of the automated call.

“We are not successful the signifier of disregarding calls,” Trina Dummer, the interim manager of the Summit County 911 Center, told the newspaper. “These calls impact a tremendous magnitude of resources, from dispatchers to deputies to skis patrollers. And I don’t deliberation we’ve ever had an existent exigency event.”

The mendacious exigency notifications are not constricted to Summit County alone, with dispatch operators successful Grand, Eagle, Pitkin and Routt countries successful Colorado besides fielding grounds numbers of mendacious exigency calls from iPhone 14 users. As dispatch centers prioritize calls successful the bid they are received, mendacious notifications are said to hold the effect to existent emergencies.

Apple supposedly addressed the contented with the merchandise of iOS 16.2 on Dec.13, with “optimizations” meant to forestall iPhone 14s from calling exigency services erstwhile users are enjoying rollercoasters and different aggravated rides. Given the reports retired of Colorado, they seemingly did not let for thing arsenic elemental arsenic a skier falling over.

While the clang detection diagnostic intelligibly has flaws, others sing its praises. Yahoo News reports that a California mates is fortunate to beryllium live aft they crashed their car 300 feet into a canyon and were saved aft their iPhone 14 contacted authorities. Authorities were besides alerted to a fatal clang successful Nebraska in October that progressive the decease of six young people.

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