Apple’s Amazing New iPhone 14 Feature May Already Have Saved A Life - Forbes

The latest iPhone 14 bid phones person a profoundly chill diagnostic that whitethorn person already saved a life. The diagnostic is Emergency SOS via Satellite. And a caller study claims it whitethorn already, little than a period aft it went live, person saved a life.

MORE FROM FORBESApple's Coolest iPhone Feature Now Available To Google Pixel UsersBy David Phelan

According to a study by Alaska Department of Public Safety, State Troopers, picked up by MacRumors, a antheral became stranded connected a snowmachine and contacted exigency services via satellite.

Let’s instrumentality a measurement backmost for a second. This is simply a truly singular feature, truthful that your slim, pocketable iPhone tin nonstop an exigency connection adjacent if you’re mode retired of cellular coverage. Of course, you person to beryllium lasting outdoors, but it inactive blows my mind. And 1 of the reasons it does is that to interaction a satellite, you request to beryllium pointing close astatine it and, unless your eyesight is considerably amended than mine, they’re conscionable not visible.

Of course, Apple has thought of this and provides bundle which guides you truthful that you cognize conscionable which portion of the entity you request to beryllium pointing at.

Anyway, backmost to Alaska. At astir 2:00 AM connected Thursday, December 1, the study says:

“Alaska State Troopers were notified that an big antheral traveling via snowmachine from Noorvik to Kotzebue had activated an Apple iPhone Emergency SOS via outer connected his iPhone aft becoming stranded. Working with section hunt and rescue teams, the Apple Emergency Response Center, and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, the NWAB SAR deployed 4 unpaid searchers to the Nimiuk Point country straight to the GPS coordinates provided by the Apple Emergency Response Center. The big antheral was located and transported to Kotzebue by the unpaid hunt team. There were nary injuries reported to Troopers.”

I don’t cognize the Noorvik clime intimately, you understand, but being stranded successful the aboriginal hours of a December greeting doesn’t dependable ideal, to accidental the least.

According to MacRumors, Troopers who helped with the rescue were "impressed with the accuracy and completeness of accusation included successful the archetypal alert."

What’s besides awesome is that Apple has warned that the work whitethorn not enactment successful places supra 62° latitude, and the Alaskan locations are considerably supra that, astatine 69°.

This ground-breaking smartphone diagnostic is astir to spell unrecorded successful much locations, including the U.K. At first, I’d thought that this was a precise niche point connected Apple’s diagnostic list, but fixed that a beingness whitethorn person been saved conscionable weeks aft it went live, I’d accidental it’s alternatively much important than that.