Friday December 16, 2022 1:05 p.m. PST by

In a press release this week, Apple said the iPhone 14's life-saving Emergency SOS via Satellite diagnostic volition beryllium supported successful further countries adjacent year. However, Apple did not supply a database of countries wherever the diagnostic volition beryllium expanding to next.

Emergency SOS via Satellite iPhone YT
Emergency SOS via Satellite archetypal launched successful November in the U.S. and Canada and requires an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, oregon iPhone 14 Pro Max moving iOS 16.1 oregon later. The work became disposable successful France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK earlier this week, with iOS 16.2 required for immoderate section exigency work numbers. The work is escaped for 2 years starting astatine the clip of activation of an iPhone 14 model.

From an Apple enactment document astir utilizing Emergency SOS via Satellite:

In the U.S. and Canada, telephone oregon substance 911. In France, telephone oregon substance 112, 15, 17, 18, 114, 119, 191, and 196. In Germany, substance 112 and 110. In Ireland and the U.K., telephone oregon substance 999 oregon 112.

You request iOS 16.2 to link to exigency services via outer erstwhile you telephone oregon substance 15, 17, 18, 114, 119, 191, and 196 successful France, 110 successful Germany, and 999 successful Ireland. The availability of these further exigency numbers mightiness besides beryllium connected your cellular carrier.

The diagnostic allows iPhone 14 models to link to a Globalstar satellite, enabling users to nonstop substance messages to exigency services erstwhile extracurricular the scope of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. Apple says a substance connection mightiness instrumentality 15 seconds to nonstop via outer successful "ideal conditions with a nonstop presumption of the entity and the horizon," but foliage oregon different obstructions tin effect successful messages taking longer to nonstop oregon failing to send. Apple says outer connectivity besides mightiness not enactment successful places supra 62° latitude, specified arsenic bluish parts of Alaska and Canada.

Already, determination person been reports of Emergency SOS via Satellite helping archetypal responders rescue radical in places similar Alaska and California.

iPhone users should consult Apple's enactment document for important details astir the feature.

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