Fall detection and emergency SOS on your HUAWEI watch

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Fall detection and emergency SOS on your HUAWEI watch

After fall detection is enabled, the watch will detect your posture through the acceleration sensor on the watch. If the watch detects that you have fallen and may fall into a disabled state, it will enable the emergency SOS feature for you.

To disable fall detection, enter the watch's app list, go to Settings > Emergency SOS, and toggle off Fall detection.

 
  • Your watch can't detect all falls. It can sometimes misinterpret high-impact activities as falls and trigger fall detection.
  • If your watch is connected to your phone via Bluetooth and your phone has two SIM cards, make sure to set in advance the default card for making emergency calls.
  • When paired with an iPhone, your watch cannot send help messages.
  • If the eSIM Standalone Number service is not enabled on your watch, it cannot send help messages when paired with an iPhone.

Setting emergency information and emergency contacts

Emergency information can help first responders in an emergency. To set emergency information and emergency contacts, do as follows:

  1. Open Huawei Health, and go to Me > Profile > Emergency information to add personal information and healthcare information such as your blood type.
  2. Go to Emergency contacts > Add emergency contacts and select an emergency contact that you would like to add. You can also tap next to an emergency contact to delete the contact. You can add up to three emergency contacts.

    Make sure you set your emergency contacts in the correct order. If emergency SOS is triggered, your watch will call your first emergency contact and send help messages to all your emergency contacts.

Viewing emergency information

On your watch

Enter the watch's app list, and go to Settings > Emergency SOS to view your emergency information.

On your phone

Open Huawei Health, choose Me > Profile > Emergency information to view your emergency information.

Fall detection and auto-SOS

  1. Enter the watch's app list, go to Settings > Emergency SOS, and toggle on Fall detection.

  2. If the watch detects that you have fallen and may fall into a disabled state, it displays a pop-up, asking you whether to make emergency calls.

  3. If you choose or don't perform any operations on the watch within 60 seconds, the watch triggers emergency SOS.
    • If emergency contacts have been set, the watch will automatically call the first emergency contact and send a help message containing your current location to all emergency contacts.
    • If no emergency contact has been set, public emergency call numbers will be displayed for you to select.

    If the eSIM Standalone Number service has been activated for your watch, you can send help messages on your watch.

Manual emergency SOS initiation

Press the Up button (Power button) five times in quick succession to launch emergency SOS.
  • If emergency contacts have been set, the watch will automatically call the first emergency contact and send a help message containing your current location to all emergency contacts.
  • If no emergency contact has been set, public emergency call numbers will be displayed for you to select.
 
  • If Fall detection is disabled, your watch won't initiate an emergency SOS upon detecting a major fall. In this case, press the Up button five times in quick succession. (Emergency SOS can always be launched by pressing the Up button five times in quick succession.)
  • When your watch is connected to your phone via Bluetooth, you can press the Up button five times in quick succession to make an emergency call. You can see the calling screen on your phone a few seconds later. If they are not connected, you'll only be able to make calls after activating the eSIM service on your watch.
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