Apple launched the iPhone 14 smartphone lineup in September 2022. The latest iPhones ship with a new feature named Apple Emergency SOS that allows users to connect with emergency services via satellite. This feature doesn’t need WiFi or cellular service to work and can be a handy feature for users who likes adventures. The feature has now helped in saving the lives of two women who were stranded in the wilderness near McBride, Canada. According to a report by TimesPost, this was likely the first use of the new Apple Emergency SOS via satellite in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The report claims that two women got lost on their trip back to Alberta on December 23. One of them had the iPhone 14 and they used the Emergency SOS via satellite feature to get themselves out of the pickle.
How did Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature help these women
At first, these two women checked Google Maps for an alternate route as an accident closed the highway. Then they decided to take a detour through the Holmes Forest Service Road. This road was partially plowed since last week, and the pair made it to the point where the grader had stopped.
Dwight Yochim, a senior manager with BC Search and Rescue team explained that after reaching that point, they faced a “wall of snow” and the pair got stuck when they tried to get through it. Yochim also mentioned that these women were nearly 20 kilometres down the road and had no cell service. The pair remained stuck in the snow with no one knowing where they were.
Yochim also explained that once the iPhone user activated the SOS, it sent a message to an Apple call centre which then contacted Northern 911 which is a call centre in Canada. Northern 911 then activated a call to emergency services in British Columbia and provided them with multiple information including the subject’s GPS location.
How did Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature help these women
At first, these two women checked Google Maps for an alternate route as an accident closed the highway. Then they decided to take a detour through the Holmes Forest Service Road. This road was partially plowed since last week, and the pair made it to the point where the grader had stopped.
Dwight Yochim, a senior manager with BC Search and Rescue team explained that after reaching that point, they faced a “wall of snow” and the pair got stuck when they tried to get through it. Yochim also mentioned that these women were nearly 20 kilometres down the road and had no cell service. The pair remained stuck in the snow with no one knowing where they were.
Yochim also explained that once the iPhone user activated the SOS, it sent a message to an Apple call centre which then contacted Northern 911 which is a call centre in Canada. Northern 911 then activated a call to emergency services in British Columbia and provided them with multiple information including the subject’s GPS location.
RCMP and Robson Valley Search and Rescue were then able to use the GPS location which helped them to strategise and understand the possibilities of what might have happened. The GPS location also helped them to speculate how the women may have gone up the logging road.
After that, the pair were found by the rescue party that helped pull their vehicle out and sent them back on their way. Yochim also said that without this technology the process to find them would have been a major search operation that could have lasted over a week.
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