Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch.
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Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻
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Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻
@andypiper you can pair it with a bluetooth parachute to activate it automagically in case you faint during the jump 🙂
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Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻
@andypiper does it have to be specific to Pixel Watch?
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@andypiper does it have to be specific to Pixel Watch?
@cheeaun yes, that’s the option we are exploring specifically.
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@andypiper you can pair it with a bluetooth parachute to activate it automagically in case you faint during the jump 🙂
@gubi there is little chance of the elderly person going skydiving, thanks
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Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻
@andypiper I got one for my mum. She never triggered the fall detection (fortunately). She found the manual emergency triggering too difficult though. You have to press the small side button five times quickly and she couldn't manage that consistently. We're ended up doing for the clunky subscription pendant from Age Concern.
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Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻
@andypiper No direct experience with Pixel Watch, but my elderly mother got a Samsung Watch partly for this reason.
She's managed to trigger it accidentally when she overenthusiastically clapped too hard at her favourite football team scoring a goal.
She also managed to trigger the fall alert one time when she took her watch off and threw it on the bed.
So my advice would be to make sure she knows how to dismiss the alarm before the ambulance is dispatched.
Because there's likely to be false positives. -
@andypiper No direct experience with Pixel Watch, but my elderly mother got a Samsung Watch partly for this reason.
She's managed to trigger it accidentally when she overenthusiastically clapped too hard at her favourite football team scoring a goal.
She also managed to trigger the fall alert one time when she took her watch off and threw it on the bed.
So my advice would be to make sure she knows how to dismiss the alarm before the ambulance is dispatched.
Because there's likely to be false positives.@aj thank you! Helpful advice.
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@andypiper I got one for my mum. She never triggered the fall detection (fortunately). She found the manual emergency triggering too difficult though. You have to press the small side button five times quickly and she couldn't manage that consistently. We're ended up doing for the clunky subscription pendant from Age Concern.
@edward thanks, this is good to know about!