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Your Apple Watch can help save your life if you fall. Thereās a setting called āFall Detectionā where if you have a hard fall your phone will call the police for you.
Hereās how to change the setting and what else you need to know. P.S. This page may contain affiliate links. Please see myĀ disclosureĀ for more information.
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Fall detection is something you must enable. In order to do so, use the Watch app on your phone and navigate to Emergency SOS:

If you look at the image above youāll see the option for Fall Detection. You can choose to have it on all the time or only during a workout.
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Once you set your choice this will appear: āFall Detection is designed to recognize falls that happen as you get older. The more physically active you are, the more likely you are to trigger Fall Detection due to high impact activity that can appear to be a fall.ā

So be sure youāre ready to turn off Fall Detection if it comes up and you donāt actually need it.
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According to Apple, the way it works is if the watch ādetects a hard fall while youāre wearing your watch, it taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm, and displays an alert. You can choose to contact emergency services or dismiss the alert by pressing the Digital Crown, tapping Close in the upper-left corner, or tapping āIām OK.ā
You need an Apple Watch Series 4 or later to have this feature available.
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