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

  • deleted@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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