The Apple Watch has already been proven to help save lives thanks to its various life-saving features including Fall Detection, Crash Detection, and of course its heart monitoring technologies. But there's one area where the Apple Watch has so far not been able to help people stay safe and Apple seems set on trying to fix that.
More people die in water each year than you might think and a new Apple patent makes a note that more than 3,500 people die from drowning in the United States each and every year. That's more than nine per day, and it's the fifth most common cause of accidental death across the whole country. So with that in mind, it's perhaps no surprise that the patent suggests that Apple is working to allow the Apple Watch to help save more lives, this time by alerting emergency workers when someone might be drowning.
