Fall Detection has gotten ridiculously sensititve.

I've been wearing an Apple Watch for series 4 since it first came out. I'm used to false alarms from pounding my hand on the back of a knife, or other such things. But in the past month, it has gotten ridiculously sensitive. It detected a fall when I closed the medicine cabinet, when I waved my arm, and other benign actions. Yesterday on a bike ride it detected a fall several times just from bumps on the path.


Has anybody else experienced this? I'm wondering if a software update is causing it, or if somehow the physical fall detection components have failed.

Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 8

Posted on Aug 27, 2022 9:10 AM

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Fall Detection has gotten ridiculously sensititve.

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