iPhone 14s can now send SOS messages via satellite - Morning Brew

Apple’s slightest sexy iPhone update since the Memoji rolled retired successful the US and Canada yesterday, and it’s 1 that exigency responders accidental has the imaginable to prevention lives. The caller feature, Emergency SOS via satellite, volition let iPhone 14 users to nonstop their determination and a abbreviated connection if they find themselves successful occupation without compartment service.

First announced successful September, Emergency SOS is made imaginable by 24 satellites successful low-Earth orbit. Apple invested $450 cardinal successful the institution operating those satellites, Globalstar, to enactment their development.

How it works: When an iPhone 14 idiosyncratic calls 911 without compartment service, they’ll person the enactment to nonstop an exigency text. After filling retired a questionnaire astir the quality of their emergency, the user’s precise determination and aesculapian ID are sent to exigency responders.

A fewer things to note: Since the process is antithetic from a regular substance oregon call, sending a connection could instrumentality minutes. To work, users request an unobstructed presumption of the sky, truthful it’s much utile for a “stuck successful a histrion surrounded by wolves” concern than a “stuck successful a cave surrounded by wolves” situation. Apple said the work volition beryllium escaped for astatine slightest 2 years.—MK