Apple’s emergency SOS service on the iphone 14

[Breaking Trail]

This is gonna be awesome!

Check out the video for how it works.

See how Apple's emergency SOS service works | CNN Business

Apple's $450 million investment in a network of 24 satellites traveling at 16,000 mph now allows iPhone 14 users to contact emergency services even without a cell signal. Watch CNN Business's Samantha Kelly walk through how the process works during a demo in Brooklyn, New York.

www.cnn.com

 

[Naughty Pine]

This is going to make hiking so much safer for me. I already use the AppleWatch "fall detection" feature. It gets my iphone to call 911 if I fall and don't respond. I don't even have cell service to my watch; it just dials my phone. But I can't always get cell service, so this is PERFECT: all I need out of satellite service (I can do without the features of inReach).

Now, I just have to figure out how to get an iphone 14.

 

[Twiglets]

This is going to make hiking so much safer for me. I already use the AppleWatch "fall detection" feature. It gets my iphone to call 911 if I fall and don't respond. I don't even have cell service to my watch; it just dials my phone. But I can't always get cell service, so this is PERFECT: all I need out of satellite service (I can do without the features of inReach).

Now, I just have to figure out how to get an iphone 14.

Haha! Great excuse to get an AppleWatch. Winter is here: ICE!

 

[Cliffed Out]

The inReach will have many advantages like battery life and ability to communicate without having visual sight of satellites, but this is a good basic! The iphone doesn't work well in the cold, either, so that's important!

The New iPhone 14 Has a Built-In Satellite SOS Feature. Is Garmin Worried?

Will the iPhone eventually do to personal locator beacons what it did to digital cameras?

www.outsideonline.com

 

[Breaking Trail]

The inReach will have many advantages like battery life and ability to communicate without having visual sight of satellites, but this is a good basic! The iphone doesn't work well in the cold, either, so that's important!

The New iPhone 14 Has a Built-In Satellite SOS Feature. Is Garmin Worried?

Will the iPhone eventually do to personal locator beacons what it did to digital cameras?

www.outsideonline.com

After reading that, I would go with the inReach if I did any ambitious backcountry stuff at all. For urban parks or when the entire cell infrastructure goes down, it would likely be perfect.

 

[Grok]

Story of a successful SAR call on iphone 14 about as remote as you can get: above the Arctic circle in AK:

A man in Alaska stranded while riding a snow machine was rescued after using his iPhone 14's emergency satellite SOS feature

The man used Apple's Emergency SOS via satellite feature to relay useful information to rescuers, like his clothing, supplies, and any injuries.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Chill]

SAR is warning that the detectors might be a little too sensitive! It turns out people have their iphones in their packs, they do some big whoop-dee-do in the backcountry, and the iphone registers a fall or a crash. Since the phone is in the pack, the owner doesn't respond within the 1-minute time frame, and SOS automatically calls.

Here spells it out:

B.C. search and rescue teams brace for more Apple iPhone false alarms

"When you get three in one weekend, you don't want that. We're trying to nip this in the bud."

infotel.ca

 

[Rainforest]

That was quick. Apple is tweaking the crash detection system to address SAR concerns,

Apple updates software after crash-detection system prompts false alarms in backcountry

Over the past week in B.C., iPhones and Apple watches have triggered at least four false alarms

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Twiglets]

On the other hand......

This couple flew off a cliff in their car in the Angeles National Forest, fell 250 feet to the bottom of a canyon, and were able to satellite help using a new iphone14 (which has the crash sensor).

Video of the helicopter rescue