Thanks to the iPhone and a Garmin inReach used as a beacon, a ski trip guide at the scene stayed in contact with first responders, relaying information to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office to ...

An AT&T outage on Thursday led many cellphone users to look for calling alternatives. The company advised customers to access Wi-Fi communications, but iPhone users without service or internet ...

Editors' Note: Verizon appears to be suffering an outage in the U.S. on January 14, 2026, which may explain the appearance of the SOS alert on your iPhone. See our Verizon outage live blog for more ...

Apple will expand Emergency SOS via satellite on the iPhone and Apple Watch Ultra 3 to Mexico later this year. The feature will enable iPhone and Apple Watch users in Mexico to contact emergency ...

Survivors of the catastrophic avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada that claimed at least eight lives were rescued after using an emergency feature available on some iPhones. The iPhone emergency ...

WASHINGTON — Numerous Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a service outage Wednesday that left many iPhones in "SOS mode." More than 170,000 customers reported issues with their cell service ...

Did you get caught up in Verizon's massive outage this week? Millions of customers saw "SOS" at the top of their phone screen instead of the usual graph of connection bars. Verizon has since restored ...