Apple Watch Fall Detection & Rider Safety

[Hanno Verian]

My wife has just bought the new Apple Watch 5 and was raving about the Fall Detection capability and its benefits if hacking solo (see links for explanation) apparently its on the Apple watch 4 as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208944

https://www.medicalalertadvice.com/articles/apple-watch-fall-detection/

Does anyone have any experience of this, if it works it could be a fabulous, I already have the What3Words app, which I think is fabulous - havent used it but love the capability.

 

[Donkey66]

I usually know if I have fallen off.

 

[Sealine]

Sounds like a great idea but I'd probably want more than 90 seconds before it called emergency services. I fell off out hunting last year and had to keep still for what felt like forever. I was near the front of the field and I waited until everyone had galloped past before I even lifted my head off the floor. If I'd moved I would have risked being trodden on.

 

[Hanno Verian]

Thanks D66

Me too....

 

[DirectorFury]

I usually know if I have fallen off.

Haha, it's more so it can text/call your emergency contact if you're hurt . I've been after an Apple watch for ages and this might just push me to buy one...

After an incident a few years ago where I fell off on the common and the horse buggered off (thankfully just to the gate nearest home) she now hacks with an old iphone attached to the saddle so I can locate her if it happens again.

 

[The Trooper]

It works. Partner came off and it triggered. I think it's a brilliant idea.