iPhone 14 Sat SOS now live

[Jason G]

Just got the update on my iphone 14 for sat sos. They have a nice little demo where you can try it out.

Seemed to be pretty quick. found a satellite in about 15-20 sec. and was able to send and receive a test message in about the same amount of time.

It started out having me point due east and then flipped me around NW to find a new sat. This could be a problem if you were badly injured and couldn’t move or hold steady enough to get a good connection.. compared to a standalone device where you could just press 1 button.

If you have a 14 and want to try it, you go to Settings>Emergency SOS>scroll to bottom> Try Demo

[Mark Verber]

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.

 

[Jason G]

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

[Jason G]

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

[Jason G]

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.

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