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On the aforesaid time that the iPhone 14 Emergency SOS rolled retired to Europe, Apple’s outer rescue strategy was proving its worthy by redeeming a mates who drove into a canyon.
The Montrose Search and Rescue Team reports (via MacRumors) that connected December 13, a young mates drove disconnected the broadside of a upland successful the Angeles National Forest successful California, dropping 300 feet into a canyon. At this constituent the iPhone 14’s Crash Detection strategy seems to person kicked successful arsenic intended, attempting to nonstop retired a distress signal.
When nary mobile awesome was present, the iPhone 14 utilized Apple’s caller exigency diagnostic to nonstop retired a petition for exigency assistance via satellite. Apple’s squad of specialists past picked up the telephone for assistance and relayed the determination of the victims to section exigency services. There’s footage of the ensuing chopper rescue connected the Montrose SAR Twitter account.
Deputies, Fire Notified of Vehicle Over the Side Via iPhone Emergency Satellite Service
This day astatine astir 1:55 PM, @CVLASD received a telephone from the Apple exigency outer service. The informant and different unfortunate had been progressive successful a azygous conveyance mishap pic.twitter.com/tFWGMU5h3V
The rescue squad confirms that they were capable to get “an close latitude and longitude for the victims” from Apple’s telephone centre.
This isn’t the archetypal incidental of Apple’s caller outer SOS work being called into action. Earlier successful the month, the iPhone 14 Emergency SOS outer messaging diagnostic recorded its first rescue erstwhile a snowmobiler got stranded successful the Alaskan wilderness.
After hitting the US and Canada past month, the Emergency SOS strategy for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro rolled retired to the UK, Ireland, France, and Germany connected Tuesday.
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