With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no...

With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no…

  • RykzonEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Or you know, just get a dedicated gps device like Inreach for a a few hundred $ one time + gps plan as you need. I wouldn’t rely on my iPhone for truly expedition like situations you actually plan for.

    • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It’s not the case people get lost or missing because they don’t have a gps.

      They mostly do have a gps but either they get injured (falling in a well or between rocks) or their car breaks down / get stuck.

      • RykzonEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I didn’t mean gps as in navigation, Inreach is a dedicated satellite communicator. I meant I wouldn’t trust an iPhone for emergency communication if I plan to go somewhere extremely remote

        • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.

          I thought consumer satellite communications is purely for expensive phone calls.