{"id":1500,"date":"2024-02-27T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/what-is-apples-sos-mode-iphone-feature-lets-you-make-calls-to-emergency-services-while-cell-service-is-cut-off\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:06:09","slug":"what-is-apples-sos-mode-iphone-feature-lets-you-make-calls-to-emergency-services-while-cell-service-is-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/what-is-apples-sos-mode-iphone-feature-lets-you-make-calls-to-emergency-services-while-cell-service-is-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Apple\u2019s \u2018SOS mode\u2019? iPhone feature lets you make calls to emergency services while cell service is cut off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"\">AT&amp;T cellphone users across America were experiencing outages Thursday that cut off their access to cellular service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For now, the company is advising users to connect to Wi-Fi to access communications. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">For people who use Apple iPhones, their only service option during an outage or when cellular service is unavailable can be accessed through the device\u2019s SOS mode. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><em>Follow live coverage of the nationwide outages<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, this only allows for automatic calls to a local emergency number. SOS mode also shares your location with the emergency service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You can also create emergency contacts that will receive a text message with your location after your emergency call ends, and which will update if your location changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">On all iPhone 14 or later models, you can also\u00a0use SOS mode via satellite to text emergency services.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T cellphone users across America were experiencing outages Thursday that cut off their access to cellular service. For now, the company is advising users to connect to Wi-Fi to access communications. For people who use Apple iPhones, their only service option during an outage or when cellular service is unavailable can be accessed through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}