My Apple Watch has called emergency services (911) while I have been talking to people. This has happened twice in the past month. I have had my watch for almost 3 years now and have never experienced this issue. What would be causing this to happen?
Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 6
You might be pressing the side button if you’ve enabled SOS Auto Dial
Look in the Watch app on your iPhone . In the My Watch Tab - Emergency SOS - scroll down to automatic dialling - turn off Hold Side Button.
if that’s not the case: restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
You might be pressing the side button if you’ve enabled SOS Auto Dial
Look in the Watch app on your iPhone . In the My Watch Tab - Emergency SOS - scroll down to automatic dialling - turn off Hold Side Button.
if that’s not the case: restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
You’re welcome.
Some updates do change settings. I use this one anyways so I wouldn’t notice. Having said that it does have its drawbacks like if you lean over and your arm presses against something, but an option to cancel comes up
It’s handy to have if you need to call for help and can’t speak, otherwise you can still use your watch to ask Siri to call 911 - just make sure you have listen for Hey Siri turned on to use that function. Or the option to press Digital Crown to summon Siri.. Both of these can be found in the Siri settings in my watch tab.
Stay safe.
Thank you. I never changed any preferences to allow the side button hold to call, so I’m going to assume an update changed my preferences. Issue resolved. I appreciate the help.
Apple Watch calling emergency services with no reason
