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Night Terror From SIL's Apple Watch
Posted on 1/18/24 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 1/18/24 at 3:09 pm
The SIL is a widowed career gal with a potentially dangerous job.
A year ago she got an Apple watch that's configured to text my SO if it detects an impact from a fall, fight, collision, etc.
In the past 6 months the wife has been awakened twice at late hours with "impact" alerts from that watch that turned out to be non-emergencies. Of course the SO loses the rest of the night's sleep after awakening with thoughts of "is my sister in trouble?"
The wife WANTS to be awakened by any late-night HUMAN calls or texts from the SIL but is sick of losing sleep because of that watch. Yet the wife doesn't want to tell the SIL to shut off the alerts, since she wants to help in an actual crisis.
Her Android phone can't seem to block just the watch from making her phone ring late at night while letting human calls and texts from that number ring normally.
Is there a solution?
ETA:
I just asked a buddy about this. He swears that Apple Watch "impact" alerts ruin more friends' and family lives than multi-level marketing.
Apparently Apple Watch alerts are so unreliable that you shouldn't subject your worst enemies to them.
A year ago she got an Apple watch that's configured to text my SO if it detects an impact from a fall, fight, collision, etc.
In the past 6 months the wife has been awakened twice at late hours with "impact" alerts from that watch that turned out to be non-emergencies. Of course the SO loses the rest of the night's sleep after awakening with thoughts of "is my sister in trouble?"
The wife WANTS to be awakened by any late-night HUMAN calls or texts from the SIL but is sick of losing sleep because of that watch. Yet the wife doesn't want to tell the SIL to shut off the alerts, since she wants to help in an actual crisis.
Her Android phone can't seem to block just the watch from making her phone ring late at night while letting human calls and texts from that number ring normally.
Is there a solution?
ETA:
I just asked a buddy about this. He swears that Apple Watch "impact" alerts ruin more friends' and family lives than multi-level marketing.
Apparently Apple Watch alerts are so unreliable that you shouldn't subject your worst enemies to them.
This post was edited on 1/18/24 at 4:26 pm
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Posted on 1/18/24 at 4:13 pm to WB Davis
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Is there a solution?
Maybe.
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. Yet the wife doesn't want to tell the SIL to shut off the alerts, since she wants to help in an actual crisis.
Nope. Turns out the easy and obvious solution is off the table.
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The SIL is a widowed career gal with a potentially dangerous job.
Fair enough, but your wife being awake all the time and driving herself crazy will be OF NO USE to her sister in an emergency.
I assume as these are women that rationality will fail in selling any of these points.
Posted on 1/18/24 at 4:40 pm to WB Davis
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HUMAN calls
I know what you mean, but this is kind of funny
Posted on 1/18/24 at 5:08 pm to WB Davis
The biggest issue is that Emergency SOS, crash detection, and fall detection auto calls & texts are turned on by default above a certain age.
Like someone has mentioned she needs to talk to sister about settings. It also seems like it would be calling emergency number as well which the sister would probably not want to do on accident.
For fall and crash detections even if set to auto call the watch waits, gives a countdown, and sound alerts before calling which are being ignored (or if job dangerous it happens a lot more often than you know but a couple alerts about calling were just missed).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108896
There is a shorter timeframe to cancel for crash detection before it auto calls and texts, but there is still one.
If it detects a car crash
If sister is just accidentally pressing down on the side button too long she can turn off the auto call. She can also turn off the crash & fall auto calls.
Like someone has mentioned she needs to talk to sister about settings. It also seems like it would be calling emergency number as well which the sister would probably not want to do on accident.
For fall and crash detections even if set to auto call the watch waits, gives a countdown, and sound alerts before calling which are being ignored (or if job dangerous it happens a lot more often than you know but a couple alerts about calling were just missed).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108896
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If Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Series 4 or later, or Apple Watch Ultra or later detects a hard fall while you're 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 "I'm OK."
… If your Apple Watch detects that you're moving, it waits for you to respond to the alert and won't automatically call emergency services.
… If your Apple Watch detects that you're immobile for about a minute, it begins a 30-second countdown, while tapping you on the wrist and sounding an alert. The alert gets louder, so that you or someone nearby can hear it. If you don't want to call emergency services, tap Cancel. When the countdown ends, your Apple Watch automatically contacts emergency services as well as your emergency contacts
There is a shorter timeframe to cancel for crash detection before it auto calls and texts, but there is still one.
If it detects a car crash
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… If you're unresponsive
If you haven’t initiated a call or canceled the alert after 10 seconds, your device begins another 10 second countdown. During this countdown, your device makes loud whoops to get your attention. Your iPhone aggressively vibrates and your Apple Watch makes aggressive taps.
If sister is just accidentally pressing down on the side button too long she can turn off the auto call. She can also turn off the crash & fall auto calls.
This post was edited on 1/18/24 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 1/18/24 at 8:16 pm to WB Davis
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The SIL is a widowed career gal with a potentially dangerous job.
A year ago she got an Apple watch that's configured to text my SO if it detects an impact from a fall, fight, collision, etc.
so what's the plan? your SO is supposed to get one of these alerts and save the day? tell your SIL to turn that shite off
Posted on 1/20/24 at 11:59 pm to WB Davis
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This post was edited on 1/23/24 at 11:33 am
Posted on 1/22/24 at 7:54 pm to BeepNode
Tell your SIL to take her watch off when having sex.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:59 pm to bird35
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Tell your SIL to take her watch off when having sex.
Its this.
Do this.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 11:14 pm to bird35
This was what I thought too
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