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Earlier this fall, Apple announced a new feature called Crash Detection for the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8. And we already know it works as advertised... even sometimes when it's not ...
Parade chatted with two Apple executives to learn more about Crash Detection and how it works on the new iPhones, Apple Watches.
Apple, Inc. introduced Crash Detection on the Apple Watch Series 8, Ultra, and second-generation SE and the iPhone 14 series at an event on September 7, 2022. This came three years later than Google, who had introduced the Car Crash Detection feature on its Pixel 3 smartphone in 2019. [1]
The new iPhone and Apple Watch include a crash-detection feature that can automatically alert emergency services after a severe crash.
Settings is an app available since initial launch of the original iPhone in 2007. Settings allows users to access information about their device and change the settings and options on their phone such as the device wallpaper, notifications, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth , display and brightness, Siri and more.
In iOS 7, it replaces the control pages found in previous versions. It gives iOS and iPadOS devices direct access to important settings for the device by swiping down from the top right corner on the iPhone X and newer, and on all iPad models starting with iOS 12 or iPadOS, with previous models using a swipe from the bottom of the screen.
The iPhone 14 and Apple Watch include a crash detection feature which may accidentally trigger when on a roller coaster, a report says.
It functions even when the device is in airplane mode, and can only be avoided by disabling Bluetooth from the device's Settings app. [1] [2] [3] The attack can cause the device to crash. [2] It also affects iOS 17.1. [4] The release of iOS 17.2 made devices more resistant to the attack, reducing the flood of popup messages. [5]