5 Ways to Prepare Your Apple Watch for Emergencies
When it comes to emergencies, you can never be too careful. The good news is that your Apple Watch can help you in many possible emergencies you may have.
Let’s hope you never have to use these features, but here are some ways you can prepare your Apple Watch to help you in case of an emergency.
1. Share Your Medical ID on Your Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch’s Medical ID is one of yourApple Watch’s hidden features you need to try. With your Medical ID, if you’re in an emergency, people can take a look at important health information about you, including your blood type, allergies, and any medical notes or conditions you may need to share.
Moreover, you can let anyone access your Medical ID from your Apple Watch in case you can’t talk at that moment. This is what you need to do:
How to Give Emergency Access to Your Medical ID on iPhone
How to Give Emergency Access to Your Medical ID on Apple Watch
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And that’s it. Now you or anyone else will be able to access your Medical ID simply bypressing and holdingthe side button on your Apple Watch and then swipingMedical IDto the left.
2. Use Your Apple Watch’s Fall Detection Feature
One of thebest health features on your Apple Watchis Fall Detection. Fall Detection is a really useful feature if you’re into extreme sports or just fall quite often. With this feature, as you can probably guess by its name, your Apple Watch can recognize if you fell down.
If that happens, your Apple Watch will ask you if you’re okay. If you don’t answer after some time, your Apple Watch will call emergency. Additionally, it’ll let your emergency contacts know you might have suffered an accident with a message, and it’ll share your location.
In case you aren’t using it already, this is how you can enable Fall Detection on your Apple Watch:
How to Enable Fall Detection on iPhone
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How to Enable Fall Detection on Apple Watch
Whether you use your iPhone or Apple Watch, you’ll see you have two options for when you want your Apple Watch to detect your falls.
If you chooseAlways On, your Apple Watch will constantly seek to detect falls. If you chooseOnly on during workouts, your Apple Watch will only try to detect falls when it knows you’re doing physical activity.
It’s worth noting that Fall Detection might not detect every time you fall, so it’s best not to trust your Apple Watch if you fall. Likewise, if you’re a very active person, you’re more likely to trigger Fall Detection due to the impacts you make.
3. Add Your Emergency Contacts
One of thebest Apple Watch tips for beginnersyou should know is how to add your emergency contacts. Whether it’s a friend, family, or loved one, you can add people as your emergency contacts so your Apple Watch—and other people—know who to call in case of an emergency. To add contacts, you’ll need to edit your Medical ID like this:
How to Add Your Emergency Contacts on iPhone
If you want to get rid of any emergency contact, just tap theminus buttonon the left side of the contact, and tapDelete.
How to Add Your Emergency Contacts on Apple Watch
To delete emergency contacts using your Apple Watch, you need toswipethe emergency contact to the left and tap the redX buttonon the right side.
4. Update Your Health Details in Your Medical ID
Setting up your Apple ID on your iPhoneis one thing. But if you want people to help you during an emergency, you should consider keeping your health details up to date. That includes adding new medicine or medical notes you think other people would need. This is how you can do it:
How to Change Your Health Details on iPhone
How to Change Your Health Details on Apple Watch
While we would recommend you revise your Medical ID on your iPhone, as it’s way easier that way, it’s possible to also update your health details with your Apple Watch like this:
5. Use Siri to Call Your Emergency Contacts
Siri can help you call your emergency contacts right from your Apple Watch. You can just say: “Hey, Siri, call my emergency contact,” and your Apple Watch will do the rest.
If you have more than one emergency contact, which is always recommended, you’ll also need to choose which contact you want to call by saying their name or tapping it on your Apple Watch.
Use Your Apple Watch for Emergencies
There are many ways your Apple Watch can make your life easier, but it’s also a powerful tool to keep you safe in emergencies. Hopefully, you’ll never have to use these tips, but, as they say, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
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