I don’t know about the SOS feature but I can attest that the crash detection feature does work. Unfortunately, I was in a car accident this past weekend and my watch detected it and was going to call for help. Luckily it wasn’t bad enough that I couldn’t call for myself, so i don’t know what would’ve happened if i had let the watch make the call.
I'm gonna be that guy since I'm very privacy oriented... How does one disable the Emergency SOS Satellite feature. I don't want anyone (even emergency services) to be able to find me via Satellite...
Ideally, after the two years expires, it should continue to be available to anyone with compatible hardware to use in case of, I don’t know, an emergency and users should maybe only be charged on a per-call basis. I get why they’d want/need to charge monthly, but at the same time, limiting it only to paid subscribers kinda sorta seems like charging a monthly subscription for 911 emergency calls. Especially when they market it as only being used in a truly “life or death” situation. Like, “I could’ve made it off this mountain if only I’d subscribed to Apple’s iSat service, but now I’m going to die as I search for any little bit of cell signal so I can subscribe and make a life saving call for help.” But, if that’s not the case, I hope you’re right and they bundle it with Apple One and don’t require another damn subscription.
I mean, it’s pretty typical for this service, right? Home security systems, camera monitoring services, OnStar, AAA, etc are all used almost exclusively emergency situations and require a monthly fee to use. Apple does have to pay for infrastructure, satellite usage, and their own call centers that relay information to emergency services. Apple can’t pay for it forever without end. It makes sense for Apple to include it in iCloud+ just as another benefit to users because I’m sure the cost per-user is proportionally very small and this makes it so you don’t have to choose to buy this, what’s basically, insurance.
Congratulations on your beautiful son. So sweet. Thank you for great videos Andrew.
2:30 A message can be sent in 15 s, compared to 2 minutes with other traditional satellite systems?
This is pretty handy, will be of great use if my dog ever stepped on a bee 🐝 ever again
I don’t know about the SOS feature but I can attest that the crash detection feature does work. Unfortunately, I was in a car accident this past weekend and my watch detected it and was going to call for help. Luckily it wasn’t bad enough that I couldn’t call for myself, so i don’t know what would’ve happened if i had let the watch make the call.
Hope youre okay
It would probably have been worth mentioning that most of the world can’t access this yet. Only USA and Canada I believe.
That’s all that matters, who cares about the rest of the world 😂
@@Harvey017 me. We get it in France 🇫🇷 now
@@Harvey017 **Stares britishly**
Good thing we live in the US
Please make a video how to use it with FindMy app.
Mine isn’t showing up yet I guess.
Did yours ever show up? Mine hasn’t. 🤔
0:11 Whoa, where did you find a baby?
It was just roaming around!
Cute video
what are all the options? i'm REALLY curious to see what's in the crime section for some resaon
It’s contacting emergency services so anything you call 911 for can be handled through this
i still hope it gets shown at some point bc im curious what the rest of the stuff looks like
Kid 😍
I'm gonna be that guy since I'm very privacy oriented... How does one disable the Emergency SOS Satellite feature. I don't want anyone (even emergency services) to be able to find me via Satellite...
I love this, ha ha
0:27 Why did you have a baby?!
Andrew, congrats to you and your wife. Harrison is cute. Will you review updates with HomeKit? Are there new features?
Last update one I did was on iOS 16 features and I wrote heavily about Matter. Probably next vid will be a Matter demo.
Ideally, after the two years expires, it should continue to be available to anyone with compatible hardware to use in case of, I don’t know, an emergency and users should maybe only be charged on a per-call basis. I get why they’d want/need to charge monthly, but at the same time, limiting it only to paid subscribers kinda sorta seems like charging a monthly subscription for 911 emergency calls. Especially when they market it as only being used in a truly “life or death” situation. Like, “I could’ve made it off this mountain if only I’d subscribed to Apple’s iSat service, but now I’m going to die as I search for any little bit of cell signal so I can subscribe and make a life saving call for help.” But, if that’s not the case, I hope you’re right and they bundle it with Apple One and don’t require another damn subscription.
I mean, it’s pretty typical for this service, right? Home security systems, camera monitoring services, OnStar, AAA, etc are all used almost exclusively emergency situations and require a monthly fee to use. Apple does have to pay for infrastructure, satellite usage, and their own call centers that relay information to emergency services. Apple can’t pay for it forever without end. It makes sense for Apple to include it in iCloud+ just as another benefit to users because I’m sure the cost per-user is proportionally very small and this makes it so you don’t have to choose to buy this, what’s basically, insurance.