Verizon clients throughout the nation have reported a community outage that has left their telephone caught in SOS mode. There won’t be an immediatet repair — that can doubtless require Verizon’s community resolving its concern — however there are some steps you may take to attempt to get your telephone working once more.
Mashable’s Kimberly Gedeon has all the small print on the outage, however the gist of it’s that many iPhones are caught in SOS mode. That is the function from Apple that permits you to name or textual content emergency providers — even with out service. It is supposed for customers who’re in poor protection areas.
This implies that vital parts of Verizon’s community are down. Verizon has mentioned its engaged on the issue.
“We’re conscious of a problem impacting service for some clients,” it mentioned in a press release on X. “Our engineers are engaged and we’re working rapidly to determine and resolve the problem.”
Not each Verizon buyer is experiencing this concern — each my Verizon telephone and WiFi are at the moment in working order — nevertheless it does seem like an enormous drawback. Here is what you are able to do.
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Telephone caught in SOS mode: What to do
To be trustworthy, there isn’t any actual repair past Verizon’s community coming again on-line. We’ll replace this story when that’s the case.
You may attempt placing your telephone in airplane mode — or turning it off totally — to attempt to reconnect to the community. Although if the community stays down, you’ll doubtless nonetheless be unable to attach.
You may additionally use Wi-Fi calling. This technique will allow you to ship textual content messages and make calls over Wi-Fi. You will have the choice to make use of widespread communication apps equivalent to FaceTime or WhatsApp.
In any other case you may hold attempting to restart your iPhone or, extra doubtless, watch for Verizon to repair its drawback.
For all the newest concerning the community concern, try our stay weblog on the Verizon outage.