Filipe Espósito
Apple on Tuesday released the first iOS 16.2 beta to developers, and it
comes with some new features especially for iPad users. And when it comes
to the iPhone, Apple has added an intriguing new option that lets users
report to the company when Emergency SOS is unintentionally triggered.
As noted by iDeviceHelp and also confirmed by 9to5Mac, iOS 16.2 beta now
asks users for feedback when they cancel Emergency SOS mode. The system
shows a notification that opens the Feedback Assistant to send Apple data
about what happened at that moment. Did you intentionally trigger Emergency
SOS on your iPhone? the message reads.
For those unfamiliar, Emergency SOS is a feature introduced years ago in iOS
that lets users quickly call emergency services by simply holding down the
iPhones buttons for a few seconds.
With iPhone 14, Emergency SOS has been integrated with Crash Detection,
which uses the iPhones sensors to identify car crashes and automatically
call the emergency services.
Coincidentally, the new feature to send feedback after canceling Emergency
SOS comes after the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Crash
Detection had been mistakenly calling emergency services when iPhone and
Apple Watch users were riding a roller coaster. However, the report was
later updated to clarify that users were actually accidentally pressing the
devices buttons to trigger Emergency SOS.
Of course, its definitely interesting to see that Apple is interested in
getting feedback on the feature to make it better and avoid false positives.
More about iOS 16.2
In addition to feedback for the Emergency SOS feature, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS
16.2 introduce the new Freeform app which was announced back in June at
WWDC 2022. This app allows users to write and draw together in a
collaborative canvas.
The updates also come with improvements to the Home app and Live Activities.
For iPad users, iPadOS 16.2 enables support for an external display with
Stage Manager. However, its unclear at this point when the update will
become available to the public.
9to5Mac.
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