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Apple Shares New Apple Watch Survival Stories

Tuesday October 27, 2026 4:20 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today continued with its "True Apple Watch Story" series, featuring two more people who credit the Apple Watch with saving their lives.

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In the first video, Morgan tells the story of how her Apple Watch woke her up with high heart rate alerts. She ended up having a kidney infection and was going into septic shock.

The second video features a man named Josh, who used the Apple Watch to lose weight. He weighed 340 pounds until the Apple Watch motivated him to be more active.

Apple previously shared the story of a woman who was alerted to changes in her resting heart rate. When she went to the doctor, she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, but was able to get treatment.

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Top Rated Comments

5 days ago at 06:20 pm

How much are these so-called survivors paid to get onto this video? Lol

What a terrible thing to think and say.

Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)

5 days ago at 04:28 pm

I also know someone who had aecg

How much are these so-called survivors paid to get onto this video? Lol

why you ask? It wouldn’t make their stories different. I also know a guy who got a warning from the ecg on Apple Watch. Went to a doctor who confirmed something is wrong. Went to the hospital, had surgery and lives without anomalies ever since. He will never buy another’s brand watch. It’s not Apple’s most spectacular device but it has very helpful features

Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)

5 days ago at 05:27 pm

I have a friend whose son’s Apple Watch saved his life when crashed into a ditch. It pinged his phone and his phone connected via satellite and was able to get help.

This and other stories are why I’m quite sure Apple will never charge for the SOS features and why they keep extending it out a year. It’s brought them so much good will that I can’t even imagine the backlash if a news story came up “well they had an iPhone, but didn’t survive because they didn’t pay for the satellite features…”

They’ll have to find something else like messaging or browsing to charge for.

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)

5 days ago at 04:56 pm

Good to see Apple products helping in the health front.

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5 days ago at 10:38 pm

Last night a D.J. saved my life

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

5 days ago at 08:19 pm

Same thing again and again, if you don’t buy an Apple Watch you die… YES WE KNOW YES WE KNOW

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