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[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Emergency satellite SOS was a massive selling point for upgrading to the iPhone 14 to a lot of people. To your point though, my 2015 iPad is just now being dropped from future updates.

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Canada it's being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.

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[–] thejoker8814@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Very interesting, do you have any source or references that springs to your mind? I have emergency SOS enabled, but it never happened to me that it has been falsely triggered. And I can’t imagine many scenarios were it would be.

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 3 years ago

I had it enabled for a bit and everything worked fine, but I was worried about accidentally triggering it so disabled it before hearing about the false alarms.

Here's an article from the CBC about it.

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