Apple brings the iPhone 14's satellite-powered SOS service to Europe - ZDNet

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Apple connected Tuesday expanded its caller exigency service, Emergency SOS via satellite, to customers successful France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. Now, iPhone 14 users successful those countries volition beryllium capable to get successful interaction with exigency services, adjacent if they're extracurricular of cellular and wi-fi range. Apple volition grow the work into much countries adjacent year.

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The iPhone shaper launched the feature past period successful the US and Canada aft unveiling it during its Far Out lawsuit successful September. The diagnostic is disposable connected immoderate iPhone 14 instrumentality moving iOS 16.1 oregon later. It's escaped for 2 years starting astatine the clip of activation of a caller phone.

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The diagnostic uses custom-designed components and bundle to link to a satellite's unsocial frequencies without a bulky antenna. Users tin nonstop and person messages successful arsenic small arsenic 15 seconds successful wide conditions. There's a demo built into the feature, truthful that users tin effort it retired earlier they're successful an existent emergency. 

With the caller feature, users tin besides usage the Find My app to stock their determination with friends and loved ones via satellite. 

Last month, earlier launching the caller exigency feature, Apple said it was spending $450 million successful US infrastructure to enactment the service.