Apple Watch Fall Detection Credited With Saving Unresponsive Arizona Man

The Apple Watch’s Fall Detection feature is being credited as helping save an unresponsive man in Chandler, Arizona. AppleInsider reports: Fall Detection, introduced on the Apple Watch Series 4, can detect if a user takes a hard fall and will alert local emergency services if they don’t respond within 60 seconds. The potentially life-saving capabilities of that feature were on display…

Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Detection Feature Found In iOS 14 Code Snippet

Apple Watch will add the ability to detect blood oxygen levels for the first time, 9to5Mac has learned based on an exclusive look at iOS 14 code snippets. From the report: Blood oxygen levels between 95 and 100% are considered healthy; blood oxygen levels below 80% may lead to compromised heart and brain functionality. Risk of respiratory or cardiac arrest is…