Bonnaroo Goers Making Accidental 911 Calls With iPhone Feature

It seems like Bonnaroo is off to a raging begin, particularly if the native police stories are to be taken under consideration. On Thursday (June 15), the Manchester Police Division put out an alert on social media that they’d been receiving a number of unintentional 911 calls all due to a just lately added Apple iPhone function.

That will be Apple’s “Crash Detection Mode” function that was added to Apple’s iPhones and Apple Watches simply final 12 months. When a extreme automotive crash is detected, the iPhone reads the alert and brings up an Emergency Name slider that customers can entry. When you’re unable to reply, the system robotically calls emergency providers after a 20-second delay. And apparently the fast motion or maybe bodily collisions of some pageant goers has registered on some cellphone sensors as being a possible crash.

The Manchester Police Division mentioned of their assertion, “Bonnaroo Visitors: MPD has responded to a number of unintentional 911 calls at Bonnaroo. It’s seemingly that these calls are a results of ‘Crash Detection Mode,’ a brand new function on Apple iPhones. Please be conscious and think about deactivating this function in your cellphone till Bonnaroo concludes.”

Bonnaroo officers then adopted with their very own posting on social media, asking pageant goers to deactivate the function throughout the pageant, as might be learn beneath.

The Bonnaroo incident is not the primary time one thing like this has occurred, as stories surfaced again in December of the function misidentifying actions that mirror the velocity or influence of a crash, together with rollerskating and snowboarding. That mentioned, there are incidents which have resulted within the saving of lives because of the function.

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So, with a invoice that features Foo Fighters, Paramore, Korn, Knocked Unfastened, AFI and lots extra, you may wish to verify your settings earlier than raging any tougher. Rock on, Bonnaroo!