False Apple Watch Fall detection alarms!

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False Apple Watch Fall detection alarms!

I have a Apple Watch SE. I enabled the feature accidentally (i have 22 years and it didnt enable automatically). The only false alarm was today at 10:09 PM excactly When i was playing with ball. The ball hit my Watch and it tapped my wrist. I looked at it and fall detection got triggered. I fell in shock because i didnt want it to call emergency services. I tapped on im ok and selected i didnt fall. I hope appl fixes the feature.

This is an actual svreenshot from my Watch

Apple Watch SE, watchOS 9

Posted on Jul 24, 2022 3:06 PM

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WheelieNick

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Jul 24, 2022 3:41 PM in response to micko256

When you're young and active. fall detection is active when doing a workout. So you where active with the ball, so that probably was a workout.

Also, it wouldn't have called emergency services. If your Apple Watch detects that you're moving, it waits for you to respond to the alert and won't automatically call emergency services. If your watch detects that you've been immobile for about a minute, it will make the call automatically.

See this instructions if you want to turn fall detection off

Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, then tap the My Watch tab.

Tap Emergency SOS.

Turn Fall Detection on or off. If Fall Detection is on, you can select Always on or Only on during workouts.

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Jul 24, 2022 4:09 PM in response to micko256

How to use fall detection

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Jul 25, 2022 1:58 AM in response to micko256

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micko256 Author

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Jul 24, 2022 4:47 PM in response to WheelieNick

Thank u!!! But i didnt turn on workout tracking. And my Watchs feature is set on Always. The ball just hit it so much. My watch also got scratched but i dont mind

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