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Apple Watch: Police break into gym after mistaken Siri emergency call

Siri would mistakenly make emergency calls from the Apple Watch of one of the gym’s trainers. | Font: Hide

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siri is a valuable tool for users iPhone and other products Mansana, but it also tends to cause curious moments, because its activation is carried out using voice commands. The latest incident happened at the gym. Sydney, Australia after the virtual assistant mistakenly called 911 after hearing the words of some Muay Thai and boxing instructors present at the scene.

As the owner of the gym told the portal insidersthe event occurred during training and the emergency call should have been initiated from apple watch one of the coaches of the institution. Siri heard him yell out the boxing combination “1, 1-2” and the words good shot (nice shot) as specified by the venue owner Andrew Parnam.

Siri is doing its thing again

The owner mentioned that the virtual assistant Mansana called 112 because of this sequence of words, which is an alternative emergency number in Australia and other countries. guy he said that the police then raided the gym, saying they had received a report that there had been shootings. Several ambulances were already waiting outside to transport the supposedly injured.

Jamie Alleyncoach of the institution that owns apple watch who called said news.com.au which “about 15 police officers showed up, including undercover agents”. guy mentioned that the function siri de Alleyn was likely activated because the side button on the watch was pressed while he was holding the boxing pads.

Other incorrect emergency calls from Siri

As past cases have shown, siri no stranger to random emergency calls. Last December, some agents Utah reported ksl.com an increase in false 911 calls by skiers. Apparently, they had new Apple products with accident detection technology that sends users a message with an audible alarm when they detect them. If the message is not rejected, it sends an automatic message to the nearest emergency call center.

Representative a week ago Mansana announced New York Post that the company received information from emergency call centers that reported an increase in automated calls. insidersthe author of the report, mentioned that the NSW Ambulance Service and representatives of the technology firm did not immediately respond to their request for comment.

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