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Siri may just be a computerized voice on an iPhone — but she also proved to be a real hero.
Giana, a 1-year-old from Cairns, Australia, is alive thanks to the Apple feature after the infant’s mother, Stacey Gleeson, instructed the voice-activated personal assistant to call an ambulance when she found her daughter in her crib not breathing.
The terrifying ordeal unfolded after Stacey checked on her daughter one morning in March, after hearing her daughter wheezing through her baby monitor at 5 a.m. Just 10 minutes later, she saw her child hunched over.
“I picked her up and sat down with her on the floor and as I checked her airways … I looked over and remembered my phone,” Stacey told 7 News of the chilling discovery.
SiriGetty Images Stacey dropped her phone in shock upon noticing her motionless daughter, but thanks to a function on the new iPhone 6 that activates Siri even when not holding the phone, Stacey was able to summon assistance from across the room by saying, “Hey Siri.”
“Hey Siri, call the ambulance,” Stacey commanded the app, prompting Siri to call for help right away.
“Thinking back to that morning, I guess the shock of seeing her blue and lifeless in her cot shocked me so much that I immediately dropped my phone and ran to her to pull her out,” Stacey told the Mirror Online.
Had Stacey called for help just a few minutes later, she might never know the joy of watching her daughter grow.
“It might have given the precious moments Stacey needed to revive Giana,” the baby’s father, who is often away with the navy, told 7 News.
Now Stacey is encouraging other mothers to think of Siri the next time they encounter an emergency.
“I have now learned a vital lesson regarding how technology is able to help us in the most critical of situations and I feel it can certainly only benefit people by incorporating similar features into other household devices,” Stacey told the Mirror Online.
