iPhone 14 Emergency SOS Satellite Messaging feature records first rescue - TrustedReviews

If Apple was dreaming up the cleanable advertisement for the iPhone 14‘s caller exigency outer messaging feature, it mightiness beryllium good beryllium the rescue of a snowmobiler successful Alaska.

In what’s believed to beryllium the archetypal documented usage of the feature, which has resulted successful an existent rescue, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said State Troopers received the connection astatine 2:00am and jumped into action.

The alert came from the Apple Emergency Response Center (something we didn’t cognize existed until this moment), enabling hunt and rescue teams to zero successful connected the stranded fellow’s precise GPS co-ordinates. The snowmobiler was harmless and unharmed.

According to a study from MacRumors, the troopers were “impressed with the accuracy and completeness of accusation included successful the archetypal alert.” The diagnostic works by asking the iPhone 14 proprietor a bid of questions astir their predicament earlier sending a compressed connection to the exigency services via the Globalstar outer network.

The State of Alaska Department of Public Safety reports:

On December 1, 2022, astatine astir 2:00 am, the 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.

Alaska Department of Public Safety

Emergency SOS Satellite Messaging is presently disposable successful the United States and Canada, and volition roll retired successful the UK aboriginal this month.