iPhone 14 Sat SOS now live

A detailed description of this https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/apple-iphone-satellite-sos-emergency-explainer.html

including his brief test of not positioning the phone for optimal positioning.

Something I wasn’t expecting is that you can manually update your  “Find My” location via satellite.

Yeah, it would be cool if you could do 2 way locations updates via Find My.  ie 2 seperated backpackers in the wilderness w/o cell signal

I did a couple more tests and it appears to still work even when you arent pointed at the sat directly. Def a little slower, but the message still went thru.

It also worked inside my house

I tried it down the bottom of a heavily timbered river canyon a couple weeks ago and it had a lot of trouble finding and keeping the signal.  I was fishing at the time so i didn’t really give it a long effort… but I think that if i waited for the satellite to pass by the very small window of sky I had it might have been able to get a message out, but hard to say.