iPhone: Emergency Satellite Feature A Life Saver

Saturday December 3, 2022

With iOS 16.1, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which allows iPhone 14 users to contact emergency services even without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection. First reported by MacRumours, a man traveling from Noorvik to Kotzebue in Alaska got stranded in a cold, remote location on December 1, 2022, when his snowmobile went down. …

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Apple’s Safety Innovation Becomes a Recreational Idea

Thursday September 22, 2022

A YouTuber has quite literally crash-tested the iPhone 14’s Crash Detection feature and found Apple’s new emergency SOS function to reliably kick into action in the event of a controlled vehicle collision. Serial gadget-smasher TechRax today published a video in which his team can be seen remotely controlling a driverless car containing an iPhone 14 …

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