When Apple announced the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro back in September of 2022 there was a lot to get excited about. One of the features that few people will actually use was arguably one of the most important, however. Emergency SOS via Satellite is a feature that would later also appear on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models and it's designed to help people get help when they otherwise might not be able to.
Making a phone call to emergency services is normally no problem for an iPhone or indeed any other phone, but for those instances when there is just no cell service to go around most phones find themselves in a sticky situation. That's where the Emergency SOS via Satellite feature comes into play — it's designed to allow people to contact emergency services even when they don't have cell service. It does that using low-orbiting satellites and it works well. And it's been proven to help save lives on more than one occasion.
