iPhone Emergency SOS saves family from Maui wildfires – this was their terrifying chat

With the iPhone 14 series, Apple introduced a feature that every smartphone vendor should copy. It's a feature you won't even remember is there until you really need it. And, hopefully, it's a feature you'll never have to use. The iPhone 14 supports Emergency SOS via satellite communication.

We saw reports of the iPhone 14's satellite connection having saved lives during harsh winter conditions. But summertime comes with its own perils, as a family came to find in Maui. Surrounded by wildfires in an increasingly hot car, a family relied on the iPhone's satellite communication feature to reach first responders.

The Emergency SOS via satellite feature saved the lives of five people that day. You can read the entire conversation with emergency responders to understand how terrifying those moments must have been.

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