Apple Watch fall detection to the rescue
The fall was severe enough that Hackenwerth has no memory of it. Her son told ABC Action News Tampa Bay, “My mom’s Apple Watch alerted my phone so I received a text that there was a hard fall.”
When its wearer was unresponsive after the fall, the Watch called 911 on its own. Paramedics arrived and took the woman — who was still barely conscious — to the hospital.
And that’s not the end of the story. In the hospital, doctors discovered that Hackenwerth has lung cancer. “If it hadn’t been for the falling and the Apple Watch calling them, I wouldn’t even know this was there,” she told ABC Action News Tampa Bay.