Emergency SOS Improvements

Apple’s Emergency SOS and Medical ID features can already save your life in an emergency, and there are many documented cases where it’s allowed users to call for help from an Apple Watch in situations where they may not otherwise have been able to do so.

The Apple Watch already offers Fall Detection which can automatically call emergency services after it detects a hard fall, but it looks like Apple will be taking that automation up another notch, and it actually may come early in iOS 13.5, where you’ll now have the choice to automatically share your Medical ID information with emergency services whenever a call is made, ensuring that they have all of your necessary vital stats before the paramedics even arrive.

Naturally, it will be an opt-in feature, and unfortunately it won’t work everywhere right away; your emergency services provider will have to support Enhanced Emergency Data for it to be transmitted digitally and securely, but it’s a huge step in the right direction, especially for users who have allergies or other medical conditions that first responders should know about, and considering that the Apple Watch can even call 911 for you when you’re still unconscious, it’s definitely going to be a huge boon to ensuring that you get proper medical treatment.