A man has credited an Apple Watch safety feature with saving his father's life, after a bad fall left him unconscious on a remote hiking trail.
Bob Burdett was mountain biking in Riverside State Park, in Washington, last Sunday, when he flipped his bike at the bottom of Doomsday Hill. As he fell, he hit his head and was left unconscious.
Bob had an emergency feature enabled on his Apple Watch called "hard fall".
When hard fall is activated, if the watch detects the wearer has taken a hard fall, the watch will "tap" them on the wrist. If the watch doesn't receive a response within a minute, it will automatically call emergency services, and notify emergency contacts listed in the watch.
His son Gabe, who received emergency text updates from the watch, posted to Facebook about the incident.
