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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Feature Emergency SOS iPhone 14 the pride of helping to save users in remote places without a network has become a reality. The story of rescuing two women takes place in the desert Canada without any signal for smartphone.

The two women were returning home from a trip to Alberta when they got lost near McBride, a small village in British Columbia, Canada, on December 23, 2023. On the way back, an accident ended up closing a major highway, so the women check Google Maps for alternate routes.

Google Maps directed them through a detour on a highway in Holmes Forrest. However, the road they were on had not been completely leveled by the hijackers after several blizzards. This condition was unknown to the women when they started their journey.

After walking 20 kilometers, they came to a wall of snow that had not yet been cleared. Both of the women’s positions were away from the main road and in a forest where there was no cell service. Luckily, one of the women had an iPhone 14 and used the satellite emergency SOS feature to call for help.

Using the iPhone 14, they can send messages and their location to Apple’s call center. From there, Apple’s call center contacted the “Northern911” call center in Canada, which then activated a call to the emergency services team in British Columbia. The latest emergency services team received an “information packet”, including GPS coordinates.

Search and rescue officers, including Royal Canadian Mounted Police, British Columbia Search and Rescue and Robson Valley teams, were able to locate the two women using GPS coordinates. They pulled the vehicle out of the snow and helped it turn around and get back on the road.

According to Dwight Yochim, senior director of Search and Rescue British Columbia, this is the first time the new iPhone feature has been used in British Columbia.

“There was no cell service there, but one of them had a new Apple phone with SOS on and on, and to my knowledge that was the first time SOS was used in BC,” he explains.

If they don’t have an iPhone 14 and it disappears without a word, it’s reasonable to suspect that the family or workplace will ask where the missing family member is.

Rescuers have to walk from where they were last seen to where they should be, and it can take hundreds of miles. Like a game of hide and seek that must be explored, the victim can now say the coordinates of where he is.

“It’s something that has the potential to save their lives,” Yochim continued. “It’s a game changer. This technology has the potential to really help us save lives and reduce the time it takes to do so.

Yochim estimates that his team conducts around 1,700 to 1,800 searches per year.

9TO5MAC | GIZMOCHINA

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