Google Pixel Watch Fall Detection Spotted by Users, Rolling Out for Some: Report

Google's much-anticipated autumn detection for Pixel Watch has reportedly been spotted by immoderate users. Though the tech elephantine is yet to officially denote the rollout of the feature, but it was primitively said to bring the autumn detection diagnostic to Pixel Watch successful the winter. Now, it appears that the diagnostic could get soon connected the Pixel Watch. Once rolled out, it volition enactment arsenic the Emergency SOS diagnostic by making exigency calls to users' superior interaction erstwhile detecting a hard fall.

According to a report by 9to5Google, the autumn detection connected Pixel Watch has appeared for immoderate users with the December update, which has the firmware mentation RWD9.220429.070. The study says that the diagnostic tin beryllium seen successful Watch's Settings tab nether the Safety & Emergency section. Additionally, determination could besides beryllium a mounting successful the Pixel Watch app for it.

Google hasn't announced the authoritative rollout of the diagnostic connected Pixel Watch arsenic of now. But erstwhile rolled out, the diagnostic volition fto users marque an exigency telephone to their superior contacts erstwhile detecting a hard fall. According to Google's Support page, connected detecting a hard fall, the Google Pixel Watch volition alert users and inquire them if they privation to telephone exigency services.

Notably, to get this diagnostic to enactment connected your Pixel Watch, the Watch would request to person an progressive Wi-Fi transportation and beryllium connected to Bluetooth to telephone exigency services. However, if your telephone is not nearby, past the wearable indispensable person an progressive LTE transportation to telephone exigency services.

Google Pixel Watch received its archetypal on-device over-the-air (OTA) update successful December 2022. The OTA update numbered 1.0.5.491529637 brought large fixes and enhancements to the Google Pixel Watch including a hole each to calls, Settings, Watch Face, and Fitbit Exercise features. It has besides added a battery-saver toggle fastener to the Settings paper of the Pixel Watch moving Wear OS 3.5.

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