New code has surfaced detailing precisely how the function will work

Regardless of its dated internals, the Google Pixel Watch is amongst our favourite Android smartwatches to purchase. It’s inferior to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5, and its health monitoring capabilities pale in comparison with a number of the finest health trackers. In contrast to the latter, the Pixel Watch misses out on fall detection, although it has Emergency SOS. Through the smartwatch’s launch, Google revealed the function would roll out within the winter. With the promised deadline quick approaching, an APK teardown of the most recent Pixel Watch companion app has revealed extra particulars about how fall detection will work.

9to5Google dug by the code within the newest Pixel Watch app (v1.1) and located a number of references and strings to fall detection. They element that the function will work utilizing the movement sensors contained in the Pixel Watch. There’s additionally a warning that “high-impact actions might set off fall detection, and your watch cannot detect all falls.”

When your Pixel Watch detects a tough fall, it can vibrate, sound an alarm, and test when you need assistance. In case you are okay, you’ll be able to reply to this immediate and forestall the watch from contacting emergency companies. In any other case, the wearable will name emergency companies and play an automatic message requesting assist and informing them a couple of doable fall. Your location may also be shared in order that assist can arrive shortly.

Beneath is the automated message in full:

“You’re being contacted by an automatic emergency voice service on behalf of a caller. The caller’s watch detected a doable fall, they usually had been unresponsive. Please ship assist. Their location is 12.039578 levels latitude, -121.947872 levels longitude. This message will repeat 3 instances.”

Google intends to deliver fall detection on the Pixel Watch within the following areas: Australia, Canada, France, Eire, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and the US.

Fall detection confirmed up for some Pixel Watch customers in early January 2023, however the function by no means went stay. With time now operating out for Google, the corporate will probably roll out the choice within the coming days.