The SOS Emergency function has been useful in the situations that Apple has taken into account for its development!
Apple touted the benefits of the feature SOS emergency with a video showing hikers trapped on a mountain after one injured his leg. Precisely, a similar scene was experienced by a woman in Los Angeles, and as in the video, she was rescued thanks to this function available on the iPhone 14.
Even without knowing they have these features on their devices, more and more people have taken advantage of them, in life and death situations.
More and more precise emergency SOS
According to information shared on 9to5mac, Juana Reyes walked with friends in a remote part of Trail Canyon Falls in the Los Angeles National Forest when a rock dislodges and falls on his leg, causing a fracture. reyes said:
We tried to call 911 but there was no service on our phones. “Luckily my phone has this SOS satellite function that it was able to connect to… Not sure how it works, satellites I guess.
The iPhone’s ability to communicate with emergency services surprised even Reyes, who didn’t know it existed as well as to members of the rescue team, some of whom shared the experience via Twitter:
RESCUE! His iPhone 14 notified us via 911 satellite feature. Ankle injury in Trail Cyn, couldn’t get out. LACO Fire made a winch. @LASDHQ @LACoSheriffLuna @MontroseSAR @CVLASD @CbsLos @NBCLA @KTLAnewsdesk @ABC7 @FOXLA @LACoFireAirOps @LACOFD pic.twitter.com/WlfXiYgp4C
—Mike Leum (@Resqman) June 24, 2023
The calls of Satellite Emergency SOS allows iPhone 14 users to send a message to emergency services when there is no Wi-Fi coverage or connection. The feature is limited exclusively to SOS emergency calls and is available on all iPhone 14 models running iOS 16.1.
Apple introduced the Emergency SOS feature when the iPhone 14 was introduced in September 2023. The service debuted in the United States and Canada in November last year.. A month later it was released in the UK, France, Germany and Ireland and [su expansión internacional ha continuado desde entonces, aunque en [España seguimos esperando]((https://ipadizate.com/iphone/emergencia-sos-via-satelite-llega-a-mas-paises-espana-tendra-que-seguir-esperando).
Along with this expansion, Apple has worked to offer an increasingly precise toolthat users, authorities and rescue teams can trust.
So far this year, in Los Angeleswhere they rescued this lucky iPhone 14 owner, three other people had already been treated thanks to the SOS Emergency function.
