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Live video coming to 911 calls
iOS 18 lets you send iPhone video to emergency dispatchers.
Leander Kahney
July 25, 2024
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Over the last few years, Apple incorporated a slew of safety and emergency features into its devices.
Take Emergency SOS via satellite, car crash and fall detection, and heart-rate monitoring on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Now, in iOS 18, Apple is adding live video to 911 calls. It’s potentially a big deal, especially as more and more emergency calls originate from mobile devices.
Here’s how iOS 18 will make emergency assistance easier and faster to access.
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A wacky project to bring pen and paper to your iPhone became a surprise hit on Kickstarter.
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My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and we examine, you know, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he would use to paint it, of course not. Leonardo was the artist but he also mixed all his own paints. He also was a fairly good chemist. He knew about pigments, knew about human anatomy. And combining all of those skills together, the art and the science, the thinking and the doing, was what resulted in the exceptional result. And there is no difference in our industry. The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers. And a lot of people of course — it's very easy to take credit for the thinking. The doing is more concrete. But somebody, it's very easy to say, “Oh I thought of this three years ago.” But usually when you dig a little deeper, you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really worked through the hard intellectual problems as well.
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