No, no, no. Fall detection on the Apple Watch does not notify you when the calendar turns to the fall season. What fall detection does is detect when someone wearing an Apple Watch Series 4 or later, or an Apple Watch Ultra or later, takes a hard fall to the floor. If that happens, and the Apple Watch detects that you’re moving, the watch will tap you on the wrist, sound an alarm, and display an alert. You then have the option to contact emergency services or to dismiss the alarm.
If it detects a fall, the Apple Watch can contact 911 and your emergency contacts
Self-conscious about his appearance, Zellinger wouldn’t leave his home for three days after the accident
“We had had a massive storm so the pothole was completely flooded. All of a sudden I looked up, and it’s all flooded and there was traffic behind me. I had to ride through it,” Zellinger said. But when the bike hit the pothole, he flew off the bike and hit the pavement. The real estate broker stated, “I get up and the first thing I check is if my teeth are okay because I had veneers fitted a few years ago. Luckily they were okay. I hit my right knee and hit my face between my eyes and nose and hit my lip into my teeth, but I couldn’t see much blood.”
But things got worse when the injured New Yorker walked the bike home and in the bathroom of his apartment, he self-diagnosed himself with a broken nose. When he went to take a shower, blood started gushing out of his nose leaving his bathroom looking like “a murder scene.” Zellinger got dizzy and passed out smacking his head on the side of the tub which left him unconscious. More importantly, it set off the fall detector feature on the Apple Watch.
When he came to, Zellinger could hear a 911 operator talking to him through his Apple Watch. “The next thing I remember hearing is, ‘911, what’s your emergency,” he said. Even though he canceled the emergency call and went to a local hospital where he was checked out and sent home, the New Yorker still credits the Apple Watch with saving his life. “I don’t know how things would have gone for me if the watch hadn’t alerted me,” he noted.
