Apple brought the Emergency SOS Satellite alert feature to New Zealand and Australia, two countries that have large areas of dead cellular signals.
iPhone 14 users in these countries running on iOS 16.4 OS or later can avail of this feature, by pressing the power button five times rapidly or through long-pressing volume and power buttons. This would send their location to the pre-set respondents and local emergency services.
Reaching the Emergency Contacts in Distress
One of the many things that Apple boasted about the new iPhone 14 Series is the Emergency SOS feature – which works on satellite networks and can send alerts to emergency services in distress. This is a needed feature, especially in areas where cellular signals are unavailable.
Initially, the company announced this feature for the US and Canada, and later to France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. Now, Apple expanded this to New Zealand and Australia, this week. Users having any iPhone 14 unit(a standard iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max) can avail of this feature, provided that they’re running on iOS 16.4 or later OS.
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Apple’s Emergency SOS feature is free for the first two years and costs later. Launching this feature in Australia, the country’s communications minister Michelle Rowland said “The ability to contact Triple Zero with Emergency SOS via satellite when there is no mobile coverage is a strong backup to keep Australians connected in an emergency”.
Once available, users can activate this alert by long-pressing the power and volume buttons or rapidly pressing the power button five times. This will take you to an interface that guides you in the best direction by pointing your iPhone to a strong signal. Once connected, you can see the emergency service providers list to contact.
Once done, you’ll receive a message that the responders have been notified. There’s even a demo to practice using this feature as intended when the situation arises and if you wanted to share your location with family members in non-emergency situations, you can do so from the Find My app – by going to Me > My Location via Satellite > Send My Location.
Boasting that this feature has already saved a few people in the available countries, Apple asked users to be patient while using this feature – as it could take “a few minutes for even short messages to get through” citing the low bandwidth and rapid speeds of satellites.
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