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A new iPhone update is causing false emergency calls, resulting in fire departments responding to crash scenes that are nonexistent. ... recommends that in the case of an accidental 911 call and ...
Dispatchers in Utah told a local news outlet they've seen an uptick in accidental 911 calls from skiers due to Apple's crash-detection technology.
Accidental emergency calls are even more likely if the user has programmed the emergency number into the phone's contacts or speed dial. [13] To make matters worse, some phones make it easier to call the emergency services when the keypad is locked than it would be otherwise. An example of this is a soft key programmed to make an emergency call ...
iPhone 14 users say the feature has been triggered at various amusement parks throughout the country. Some iPhone 14s are calling 911 on roller coasters. Here’s how you can prevent it
On the morning of January 13, 2018, an alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii, instructing citizens to seek shelter due to an incoming ballistic missile.
This delay was compounded by a software upgrade on the emergency call handling system used by the Victorian emergency service organisations (ESOs), meaning that Telstra (the national 000 call operator) encountered severe delays in handing over emergency calls to the relevant ESO. This caused some users interviewed by authorities to believe that ...
According to the Wall Street Journal, at least six iPhone crash-detection calls have been made to 911 from Kings Island iPhone 14 crash detection calls 911 on Kings Island roller coasters, report says
A "cocaine alert" sign posted by GGD Amsterdam: the sign reminds people to "Call 112 for an ambulance."112 was first standardised as the pan-European number for emergency services following the adoption of recommendation [1] by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) in 1976 and has since been enshrined a CEPT Decision ECC/DEC/(17)05.