Would Fall Detection feature will be release in the near future updates?

Hi Garmin Developer Team

I would like to know that in the near future updates would Garmin release the updates that come with the feature Fall Detection or not for Garmin Venu 3 because from my understanding Fall Detection and Incident Detection work significantly different and since the Incident Detection feature was launched, I haven’t seen any significant changes yet so just want to know how the safety features will be improve in which way or plan of safety features improvements was. Thank in advance for your respond.

  • I believe "fall detection" is an Apple Watch term. Garmin calls it incident detection. On Garmin watches with this feature, the accelerometer detects a hard fall due to an unexpectedly rapid deceleration, then immediately transmits the data to emergency contacts. This can also be done manually by holding the action (top right) button until you feel 3 vibrations.

    Please let us know what the difference is with fall detection. We might be talking about the same thing, but I'm not sure.

    I would like to know that in the near future updates would Garmin release

    As far as this, Garmin doesn't publish future update plans. Only the official announcement on the day of release.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 1 year ago

    Bonjour ce qui serait bien c est que les détection d incidents ou de chutes soit aussi activer en dehors des activités, car actuellement elle fonctionne que pendant certaines activités, si vous faite une chute suite à un malaise en dehors d une activité la montre n enverra aucun message d alerte.c est dommage d autre constructeur comme les samsung galaxy watch propose une surveillance pendant et en dehors des activités, je suis sur que garmin pourrait le faire.

  • onjour ce qui serait bien c est que les détection d incidents ou de chutes soit aussi activer en dehors des activités,

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  • From my understanding the terms “Fall Detection” wasn’t from Apple but many globally smartwatch brands use this term to expressed  their feature that capable of detecting falls within activities or without being in a session of activity so from this view it is not even close to each other or could be considered as same feature to make a comparison. So I think Fall Detection could be a crucial feature for the market of adult - old people and moreover could be best for people that are having heart problems because many people that are having heart problem could whenever loss consciousness due to cardiac conditions so if the device had this feature, at least it could signal that his/her parent is in the situation that can’t help themselves. I am looking for smartwatch that capable of this scenario due to my mother had a fall on October that could took her life but at that time I am with her so that was a signal and lesson that their are potential that I could loss her anytime. Next, I forgot to mentioned that I had brought the Garmin Venu 3s because of many blogs on the internet advertise that it does contain a “Fall Detection” feature so with the trust of the company, I purchased it and found out that all the advertisements on the internet about this feature were lies. Lastly and Honestly, I am unsatisfied but still have trust that they will launch a updates in the near future that really had the feature function like worldwide “Fall Detection” or at least please tell all of the influencers that they had hired to wrote those blogs to delete it due to it might be considered as deceiving customers and let their customers go to look for other brands watches that really match what they are looking for. Thanks for all the comments.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 1 year ago in reply to Sirayu W.

    Merci ,tout à fait d'accord avec vous,garmin oublie volontairement où involontairement de préciser que sa détection de chutes fonctionne que lors d une activité, de plus il n ya pas que des personnes âgées ou cardiaque qui peuvent tomber, on peut aussi chuté dans un escalier ou d une échelle en bricolant ,il ya de nombreuses situations où l on peut tomber. 

  • Thanks for your opinion. Hope they revise it and put it in the plan for future updates