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Family rescued in Maui thanks to iPhone's satellite feature (9to5mac.com)
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With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no...

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[–] 66 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Why does this feel like an ad

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    9to5 Mac is by virtue of the name very celebratory of Apple things.

    Focus more on the tech saving people’s lives.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    its saves nearly every month a person . before it was apple accident detection feature before that it was apple watch and so on .

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Tech like this helps people in more subtle ways, too.

    I bought an Apple Watch to monitor my heart rate because a symptom of something I was diagnosed with was it could cause it to speed up. When my doctor decided to take me off the meds that kept it lowered, it was only thanks to the data from my watch that she put me back on it - she didn’t believe me when I said my heart rate felt like it had started going too fast and I was running out of breath too easily after she took me off them (she pointed to blood test numbers as “proof” I didn’t need them anymore), then I pulled out my phone and pulled up the app that collated the data from my watch, and showed her the giant spike in numbers after she took me off the meds.

    Then she went, “…ah,” and put me back on the heart meds. She wouldn’t have otherwise.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    it did what is was supposed to do . you could have used any heart rate monitering device to give her data . you know androids also have these feature but we dont see news article about it or people saying my android device saved me .

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It's a genuinely good feature, we're going to continue seeing positive stories like this as more people use it in life threatening situations.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It’s made me think about situations I might end up in that would benefit from this extra layer of safety where previously I’ve just YOLO’d and not gotten unlucky.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Because it is. Apple does this shit all time and it's enfuriating. Especially considering Android offers exactly the same feature so there's no "thanking" a brand when both major platforms do this. People just lap it up though.

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