Now, Apple is finally rolling out the service for the iPhone 14 series. Emergency SOS via satellite is now available for users in the US and Canada. The company also announced that users in France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK will be getting the service from sometime in December.
What is Emergency SOS via satellite
You can then tap to respond, and the phone will point you to a satellite. Once a connection is established, your iPhone sends “your answers, location, Medical ID (if set up), and battery level to a dispatcher.” According to Apple, the Emergency SOS via satellite service is included for free for two years with the iPhone 14 lineup, meaning the service will be chargeable somewhere down the line. As satellite communication is very slow, a normal message would take less than 15 minutes to send, and that can extend up to a minute under light foliage. To even enable this timing, Apple had to create a separate compression algorithm that essentially makes texts up to three times smaller. – Apple Reveals iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, Appuals
