VIDEO: A newer safety feature on iPhones is creating an unexpected challenge for first responders.
Crash detection technology automatically alerts 911 if you're in a crash. But it's also leading to false positives - emergency runs, with no emergency.
That happened two times in two days last week in Johnson County. 911 dispatchers received a call and this automated message: "The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone."
The distress call came through crash detection.
That feature is on iPhone 14s and calls for help on your behalf if it senses you've been in a wreck.
"It can measure pressure from the air bag going off inside the car, velocity, sound. So it kind of calculates all these things and says, 'Hey, you've had a severe crash here,'" said Bargersville Deputy Fire Chief Mike Pruitt.