Apple Watch Was Strapped To Film Directing Icon Steven Spielberg’s Wrist, And Started Falsely Warning Him That He Had Suffered A Fall

Hollywood’s most commercially successful movie director, Steven Spielberg, had an Apple Watch wrapped to his wrist when he was in the middle of the Tribeca Festival, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his debut feature, ‘The Sugarland Express.’ The smartwatch started alerting him with false warnings that he had suffered a bad fall and started pinging him about pressing the SOS button. What followed was a brief but interesting interaction between the director and the Apple Watch.

Steven Spielberg threw the Apple Watch on the ground and said that he was not going to press the SOS button

When an Apple Watch starts alerting you with false warnings, along with an SOS alert, it is best to disable it so that the concerned personnel do not triangulate to your position in case of an emergency. For Steven Spielberg, that was not an option because, in the middle of the talk, he said that he was not going to press the SOS button and threw the Apple Watch on the ground, stating that he would pick it up later. However, he was forced to pick it up when the device started pulsing out a distress signal.

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What was the distress signal, might you ask? The Apple Watch decided to make one final attempt to get a response from the wearer before alerting emergency services. This prompt likely made Spielberg reach for the wearable as quickly as possible. This fall alert was caused by the Fall Detection feature that was introduced with the Apple Watch Series 4, and though this addition has been credited several times for saving the lives of owners who had suffered a terrible fall, false alerts like this can happen occasionally.

As reported by AppleInsider, false alerts can be triggered when the Apple Watch detects that it is moving rapidly and immediately stops. Thankfully, the company has added the functionality where the wearer informs the smartwatch that it does not