Wednesday December 28, 2022 1:55 p.m. PST by Juli Clover
While the Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite features successful the iPhone 14 person been making headlines for helping mishap victims, simpler and much cosmopolitan iPhone functions tin besides beryllium adjuvant successful deadly situations.
On Sunday nighttime aft a Christmas gathering, a pistillate was progressive successful a car clang successful San Bernardino, California, falling 200 feet down a elevation connected the broadside of the road. Her iPhone did not notify exigency services, presumably due to the fact that she did not person an iPhone 14. Her family, though, noticed that she did not marque it location and was not responding, truthful they utilized the Find My diagnostic to way down her location.
When they saw the car was successful a determination implicit the broadside of the road connected the map, they contacted exigency services to get her help. The communicative was relayed by the San Bernardino County Fire Department (via AppleInsider) successful a Facebook post. As it turned out, the pistillate was severely injured and had spent the nighttime successful the conveyance aft the crash.
Firefighter-paramedics utilized precocious beingness enactment interventions and a enactment strategy to rise the pistillate and her rescuers from the elevation and backmost up to the road, aft which she was taken to a hospital.
The diligent had apt been successful her crashed conveyance overnight aft leaving a household gathering. Family members became acrophobic aft not speaking with her this greeting and utilized Apple's "Find my iPhone" diagnostic to way her whereabouts. Upon investigating the phone's determination they recovered the conveyance implicit the broadside & called 911.
Unlike Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite, Find My is astir universally disposable connected iPhones. In this situation, the pistillate was sharing her determination with her family, which is what allowed them to find her. Such a rescue would not person been imaginable if she had not enabled the Find My sharing features.
Apple's iPhone 14 lineup is amended for getting assistance successful a superior exigency arsenic the Crash Detection diagnostic is capable to interaction rescue services automatically successful the lawsuit of a crash, and Emergency SOS via Satellite tin beryllium utilized successful distant locations wherever nary cellular oregon WiFi awesome is available. Both features person made headlines successful caller weeks, with Emergency SOS via Satellite liable for the rescue of an Alaskan man who was stranded successful the wilderness and Crash Detection capable to assistance 2 victims who fell into a distant canyon.
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