Jakub Dlouhy The new Apple Watch Series 4 has only been on sale for a few days. In a freshly uploaded video on the YouTube channel What's Inside? however, they have already managed to properly test the newly introduced fall detection function. The results are worth noting.
The ten-minute video entitled "What's inside Series 4 Apple Watch?" deals with testing the Fall Detection function and comparing the insides of the fourth generation watch with the previous generation. The first remarkable finding is the fact that the aforementioned function is not pre-activated on the newly purchased watch and must first be activated via the iPhone application. In addition, when activated, a warning is displayed in the sense that the more active a person is, the more likely a fall warning will appear. And this is due to sharp impacts during the activity, which can appear as falls.
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Amaya Toman Falling on a trampoline or mat
The video also offers an insight into what activities falls are detected. The age-differing pair put the watch to the test in a trampoline center, and the function did not activate even once when they staged a fall on the trampoline. And that despite the real effort of both actors. Similar to the trampoline, the novelty was not activated even when falling into a foam pit or on a gymnastic mat.
Only on hard ground
For the first time, Fall Detection managed to activate only on hard ground. Subsequently, the watch offered users three options:
- Call for help (SOS).
- I fell, but I'm fine.
- I didn't fall/I didn't fall.
On the one hand, we can conclude from the testing that the watch only detects real falls and prevents the SOS screen from being displayed during normal use or sports. On the other hand, it is not clear to what extent this feature can be relied upon. Given that the watch asks for feedback immediately after a fall, it's clear that Apple intends to continue working on improving the watch's ability to distinguish falls from normal movements. In any case, this is a very interesting function, which is not doing badly even in its early days, and which can save many lives in the future.
So if it calls when I don't respond, it can probably help :-). Anyway, the video is written as some kind of parody.
And I still don't understand what's the point of disguising that watch. If they tried the crazy things that can happen on it, it could be interesting, but it's good like this.