iOS 18 Developer Beta 1 - Testing Satellite Messaging!

[@jessepinero1]

This is pretty awesome! Thank you for taking the time to check this out, you need to keep us updated bro! 👍👍👍👍

[@Elmantukas]

You came up on my recommended, great work! Thanks for the video and explanation! Definitely a super cool thing they done here.

[@Pyrotech777]

Thank you for making a video about this! You rock!

[@dustyroads834]

I know of one problem and it’s not the Sat service. It’s the fact that my 14 pro max (and most phones) tend to show 1 bar of weak service even though you can’t do anything with the phone and because it show’s service the satellite system won’t kick in because it thinks you have service. I have a Zoleo satellite communicator that uses sat and cellular service I constantly have to put my phone in airplane mode to get it to send by satellite.

[@mr_ice117]

Sweet, thank you. I swear it's s underated feature. I was hoping it kick in automatically, but i understand why i have to launch the feature to use it. It sweet also that tho not perfect it is technically available for immediate use on the beta so imagine the main release it should be working right

[@1fz80series]

Were you able to make this work by disabling your eSIM entirely or removing your SIM card? or do you have to be in an area with a valid SIM but no coverage?

[@nicholaskiefer]

you need to be in an area with a valid sim but no coverage. satellite connectivity is disabled otherwise.

[@corybourrier9722]

I tried to use this yesterday with iOS 18 beta, it did not work, I was only allowed to use the demo.

[@nicholaskiefer]

you need to have no service or else it won't work

[@ApplianceJunk]

@@nicholaskiefercan you just turn off your cell service in settings to get it to work? The demos work for me and I can get SOS to display when I turn off cell service in settings but I never see the option to use message via satellite.

[@𢎐]

great vid!!

[@philiposangel]

Any idea if this is going to be free to everyone in the U.S.?

[@nicholaskiefer]

I don’t think it’s been confirmed by Apple, but the assumption is that it will be free as long as the previous satellite sos features were free (3 years from iPhone 14 or 2 years from iPhone 15).

[@Thamios]

Thanks for the video :) subbed

[@baekkjynggjw]

cool

[@OscarZhou511]

Taken on a Samsung...

[@nicholaskiefer]

I have limited resources atm 😅 See if you can point out which shots were done on the iPhone.

[@RLVTECHUSA]

Global star trash lol 😆