Apple Expanding Satellite-Delivered iPhone Messaging Capabilities
Apple is rolling out text messaging-via-satellite capabilities for iPhone 14 and later generations, said Ronak Shah, director-internet technologies product marketing, at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week. He said it follows on existing iPhone emergency messaging capabilities via…
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satellite. Text messages sent via satellite are end-to-end encrypted, and Apple also supports satellite-delivered messaging to people not on iMessage via SMS messaging via satellite, Shah said. The SOS messaging capability, in partnership with Globalstar, debuted in 2022 (see 2211100005).