Apple’s features continue to save lives, which — by the way — is great advertising for the brand. Monday, December 26, a woman victim of a road accident near San Bernardino, California, was found and saved thanks to her iPhone. Precisely, it is the Find My function used by his relatives that allowed the exploit. Information provided by the San Bernardino County Fire Department and relayed by AppleInsider.
Localization thanks to Find My
She hadn’t heard from her for several hours after leaving a family reunion in the car. Worried, his relatives determined his GPS position and went to the coordinates indicated. A possibility offered by the Locate application of the iPhone and its Find My system, which allows you to share your position in real time with certain contacts. Arrived on the spot, the family discovers the vehicle of their relative 60 meters below a road. Quickly notified, the firefighters were dispatched to the scene.
Rescuers found the seriously injured woman inside the crashed vehicle. Advanced resuscitation care was provided while a system of ropes to tow the victim and the rescuers was put in place. Due to the rugged terrain, the intervention was particularly complex, explain the firefighters. The victim was rescued and transported by ambulance to a trauma center.
“The patient had likely spent the night in her wrecked vehicle after leaving the family reunion“, indicate the firefighters, who rent the services of Find my thanks to which the victim was able to be located by his relatives and rescued. Given the configuration of the premises, without the Locate application, the victim could have spent several days without being found.
Multiple security features
More recently, it was the Emergency SOS technology via Satellite of the iPhone 14 which made it possible to save, at the beginning of December, several people stranded in a canyon in Southern California, recall our colleagues from 9to5Mac. While the victims were stuck more than 91 meters underground, the emergency services could be notified by sending an emergency message by satellite.
On December 1, we also reported to you that the Emergency SOS function via Satellite had saved a man stranded in the cold in Alaska. He was able to contact the authorities with his smartphone and was found by a rescue team. These latter had beenimpressed with the accuracy and completeness of the information included in the initial alert.“The satellite emergency message feature came to Apple with the release of the new iPhone 14, as did the car crash detection feature.