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The iPhone’s crash detection feature caused chaos for emergency teams at this music festival
Festival-goers found that they were causing chaos for emergency responders after it turned out that their iPhones thought that they were dancing too much. During this year’s Bonaroo Festival, it’s reported that were about five times the number of false 911 calls than average, although Director of Coffee County 911 Communication Center Scott LeDuc did at least confirm that the calls don’t seem to have impacted responders’ ability to do their jobs. It’s thought that the iPhone’s Crash Detection feature was to blame, with phones calling for emergency services because people’s dancing was enough to make them think a collision…
Android update blamed for record number of 999 calls
Emergency call centers say they have been inundated with accidental 999 calls following an update to the Android mobile operating system (Getty Images) Police in the UK have blamed an Android smartphone update on a record increase in accidental 999 calls. The National Police Chiefs Council said the Emergency SOS function was resulting in emergency switchboards being overwhelmed by “silent” calls. The emergency feature is activated when a side button on a device is repeatedly pressed, which triggers a countdown that allows the action to be canceled by dragging a slider across the screen. However, many users appear to inadvertently…
Google could skip an Android version for Android TV, Wear OS
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority SL;DR Google will reportedly retire Android TV 13 in favor of Android TV 14. The company is also said to have skipped an Android version for Wear OS 4. Google’s Android platform is available for a variety of form factors, including TVs and smartwatches. The company is hard at work on the Android-based Wear OS 4 and Android TV 14 updates, but it turns out that the firm might be skipping a version in both cases. The code change appears under the header “Don’t recommend Android TV Tiramisu”: We are returning T [Android 13 –…
Users increasingly leave Android for iPhone, stats show
Ryan Haines / Android Authority SL;DR According to a new report, iPhone users are increasingly choosing to leave Android for an iPhone. However, the percentage of folks abandoning the Android ship is still way lower than in 2016. Google still needs to figure out how to stop Android users from abandoning the platform. Every year, a certain number of people jump ship from one mobile platform to another. They either leave their Android phone behind and start using an iPhone or ditch the iPhone and join the Android side. Research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) just published a new…