Apple Watch Credited With Saving Ohio Man’s Life After Fall

Mohammad Islam did not go to work that day because he was not feeling good. That day he went outside his home to throw away the trash. That is when he fell down.

His Apple Watch helped save his life. It noticed that he had fallen down and it called emergency services for him. Mohammad Islam had taken the day off from work because he was sick. He was, at his house when this happened. He fell down outside while he was throwing away the trash. This was reported by a news station called WKRC. Mohammad Islam is lucky that his Apple Watch was able to call for help when he fell down.

An Ohio man says his Apple Watch helped save his life by noticing a fall and calling emergency services for him. According to a news station called WKRC Mohammad Islam had taken the day off from work because he was not feeling well and then fell down outside his house while he was throwing away the trash.

What happened

Islam described a rough start to his day — trouble breathing, a sharp pain near his ear, and legs that wouldn’t cooperate when he tried to walk. He was home alone when he blacked out and hit the floor. He has no idea how much time passed before he came to.

When he finally opened his eyes, he was lying on the ground, drenched in sweat, disoriented. His first attempt to stand failed completely. Spotting a chair within reach, he pulled himself up using it as leverage, finally managing to sit. Moments later, he heard sirens getting closer — help was on its way.

That is when Islam figured out his Apple Watch had seen the fall and called for help. The doctors, at the University of Cincinnati found out that he had blood clots in his lungs. Islam said “I am still trying to understand what really happened and why I am still alive”. He thinks the reason he is alive is because the paramedics got there fast after his Apple Watch made the emergency call. The Apple Watch made the call when it saw that Islam had fallen.

How Apple Watch fall detection works

Islam’s story is a good example of how Apple’s fall detection actually works in practice. The feature comes built into the Apple Watch SE and newer, Apple Watch Series 4 and up, and the Apple Watch Ultra. If the watch senses you’ve taken a hard fall, it taps your wrist, sets off an alarm, and pops up a message asking if you’re alright. As long as you’re still moving around afterward, it won’t jump straight to calling for help — it just waits to see if you respond.

If the watch sees that the person has not moved for one minute it will start a thirty second countdown. The watch will tap the wrist. Make a sound that gets louder. If the person does not respond by the time the countdowns over the watch will call for emergency help. It will also tell emergency services where the person is and send a message to the people the person has listed as emergency contacts. The watch will let these contacts know that the person has fallen down. This is automatically turned on for people who’re fifty-five years old or more. People who are eighteen years old or more and less than fifty-five years old can turn this on themselves. They can do this with the Watch app, on their iPhone. They need to go to the Emergency SOS settings to do this. The watch has this feature to help people in case they fall and cannot get up.