Survivors of the deadly avalanche in California's Sierra Nevadas were stranded but used iPhone's emergency SOS feature to get ...

An iPhone with Emergency SOS via satellite proved crucial to survivors of a California avalanche, helping coordinate their ...

An issue with Verizon on Monday 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 ...

The Pixel’s Emergency SOS feature that contacts 911 can be an absolute lifesaver. It can also be incredibly easy to accidentally trigger, calling up Emergency services for no actual emergency. This ...

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 ...

Following Hurricane Milton's landfall in Florida, here's how to make sure you can send messages via satellite if you have no cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

Thousands of customers woke up Thursday morning to an SOS symbol at the top of their iPhones and no service due to a nationwide telecommunications outage. The outages were impacting AT&T customers the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is your phone suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network? It's probably ...