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Duhck | 3 years ago

I’m an avid snowboarder and mountain biker and live in a Colorado ski town. I had called detection and crash detection enabled on my phone and watch since it came out.

I was thrilled when I took a bad spill over the bars of my mountain bike at 30mph downhill and my phone offered to call 911.

I was dismayed when I started snowboarding this season and without falling my watch texted my emergency contacts and called 911 repeatedly on my first runs of the season.

I’ve now disabled it as my older mother doesn’t need another reason to be scared of her son doing extreme sports regularly.

Now I lost the extra safety the feature provided simply because it was incapable of understanding snowboarding behavior.

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electriclove|3 years ago

Hopefully Apple refines this.. overall, this is the cycle that improves things