Apple has launch a small-scale Modern software program update with some security fixes and a encouragement for the freshly - introduce Crash Detection feature foriPhone 14 .
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The update , presently available to download via preferences > General > Software Update , promises “ optimisations ” forCrash Detectionon iPhone 14 andiPhone 14 Pro .
Elsewhere , Apple says there ’s some improved compatibility with wireless mail carrier and a number of security system updates . Apple is promising yet - to - be - published information within support pages on the latter .
Apple does n’t really elaborate on what those Crash Detection optimisation are . We ’ve contacted the iPhone - maker seeking clarity , but it could be a tweak designed to prevent the false positives we ’ve seen reported since the feature article launched .
Some iPhone 14 owners reported the Emergency SOS characteristic , which is designed to actually reach out to the emergency services if it think you ’ve been in a clang , activated when they were on rollercoasters , for instance .
After the feature launch , Apple said there was “ no silver bullet ” in terms of what activate the feature , which uses the iPhone ’s apparent movement sensing element as well as other factors like car railway locomotive sounds , Bluetooth connectivity , and whether you ’re snarf up to CarPlay .
“ There ’s no silver bullet , in price of activating wreck detective work , ” Apple ’s VP of detection & connectivity , Ron Huang severalise TechCrunchin October .
“ It ’s backbreaking to say how many of these things have to trigger , because it ’s not a straight equation . reckon how fast the traveling speeding was to begin with , find out what signal we have to see afterwards on , as well . Your speeding modification , combined with the impact force , combined with the pressure change , combined with the reasoned tier , it ’s all a pretty dynamical algorithm . ”
