With the unveiling of its new iPhones, Watches and other products, Apple has added a major new feature to its latest lineup of devices: Crash Detection. It’s a feature you hope you’ll never need, but in the event of a serious car accident, your iPhone and Apple Watch can now know if you’ve been in an accident, helping you feel safer the next time you get into your car.
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In this post, we explain what Car Crash Detection is and which iPhones and Apple Watches support this feature.
Car Crash Detection, as the feature is aptly called, allows your iPhone and Apple Watch to detect when you’ve been involved in a serious car accident. The feature uses a combination of new motion sensors including a highly sensitive accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer and microphones that can generate different types of motion data.
The data is then fed into Apple’s advanced motion algorithms, which monitor your movement and detect sudden changes in your motion or orientation. The algorithm distinguishes these from your normal movement and decides whether or not you’ve been in a car accident.
