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How Rollercoasters can trigger iPhones to make emergency calls

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If you’re planning a trip to an amusement park… you might want to take your iPhone out of your pocket

Rollercoasters have triggered some new iPhones to make emergency calls.

According to the Wall Street Journal, at one U-S amusement park the thrilling rides activated the phones’ crash detection system.

This feature is fairly new, it’s only introduced in the new iPhone 14 and Apple Watch with the latest OS.

Apple told the newspaper the technology is intended to provide “peace of mind” and will continue to improve over time.

This comes at the newspaper was provided with records of six calls to local emergency services from iPhones whose crash detection system had been triggered while on rides at Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati.

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