Apple Is Giving One More Year Of This Service For Free To iPhone 14 Users: All Details – News18

iPhone 14 customers acquired a brand new service totally free from Apple final yr when it was launched however the firm determined to increase the free providing for another yr. As you may recall, the corporate stated that iPhone 14 consumers will get 2 years of its Emergency SOS service which helps folks contact the providers the place they don’t have any community.

It is fascinating that Apple has determined to push the satellite-based communication service for another yr, which successfully makes it a three-year service that iPhone 14 consumers are getting totally free. And it goes with out saying that iPhone 15 fashions additionally get the characteristic and the prolonged help.

Having stated that, Apple has put some situations for extending the free service. The firm says you possibly can solely avail the free extension of the SOS service for another yr in case you have activated the iPhone 14 in a rustic the place the service is definitely out there and you probably did this earlier than 12 am PT on November 15, 2023.

The nations the place the SOS satellite tv for pc tech is offered from Apple are the US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Spain amongst others. Apple claims that the SOS service has already helped many iPhone customers get rescued because the satellite tv for pc communication was capable of present emergency providers to the affected folks. Those who’ve been helped by the service have usually been caught in a pure trigger or lose entry to the community on their iPhones in distant elements of the world.

Apple has invested $450 million in growing the vital infrastructure that helps Emergency SOS through satellite tv for pc which was launched with the iPhone 14 fashions final yr. Apple is utilizing Globalstar’s satellite tv for pc tech and belongings to make the characteristic work.

Many of us anticipated the corporate to announce the pricing for the service however the extension means Apple nonetheless wants a while to in all probability give it a wider rollout which may justify charging a charge for the service.

Apple has the first-move benefit with this characteristic that was alleged to be a part of the Android ecosystem by now however Qualcomm hasn’t seen the uptake it anticipated and was just lately compelled to finish its cope with Iridium for the satellite tv for pc service.